Favourite Old West History Reads

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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West 4.29 avg rating — 19,126 ratings
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The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier 4.05 avg rating — 3,950 ratings
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Boots and Saddles or, Life in Dakota with General Custer
Boots and Saddles or, Life in Dakota with General Custer 3.86 avg rating — 385 ratings
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John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was
John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was 3.66 avg rating — 32 ratings
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And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Corral Gunfight
And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Corral Gunfight 4.04 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Exploring with Frémont
Exploring with Frémont 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Knights of the Green Cloth: The Saga of the Frontier Gamblers
Knights of the Green Cloth: The Saga of the Frontier Gamblers 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Pulling Leather: Being the Early Recollections of a Cowboy on the Wyoming Range, 1884-1889
Pulling Leather: Being the Early Recollections of a Cowboy on the Wyoming Range, 1884-1889 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends
Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends 3.64 avg rating — 153 ratings
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On the Border with Crook
On the Border with Crook 4.17 avg rating — 526 ratings
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Tombstone's Early Years
Tombstone's Early Years 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Bastard Boys of Montezuma
The Bastard Boys of Montezuma 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher
We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher 4.26 avg rating — 481 ratings
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I Married a Soldier
I Married a Soldier 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,680 ratings
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Vintage Fresno: Pictorial Recollections of a Western City
Vintage Fresno: Pictorial Recollections of a Western City it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Frank and Jesse James: The Story Behind the Legend
Frank and Jesse James: The Story Behind the Legend 3.63 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Doc Holliday: The Life And Legend
Doc Holliday: The Life And Legend 3.98 avg rating — 753 ratings
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The American West
The American West
by: Dee Brown
3.90 avg rating — 875 ratings
20.
Hell Among the Yearlings
Hell Among the Yearlings 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West (WRITER'S GUIDE TO EVERYDAY LIFE SERIES)
The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West (WRITER'S GUIDE TO EVERYDAY LIFE SERIES) 4.17 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West
Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West 4.12 avg rating — 1,161 ratings
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The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West
The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West
by: Dee Brown
3.78 avg rating — 664 ratings
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Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail
Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail 4.16 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis
Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis 3.96 avg rating — 684 ratings
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Dakota Dawn: The Decisive First Week of the Sioux Uprising, August 17-24, 1862
Dakota Dawn: The Decisive First Week of the Sioux Uprising, August 17-24, 1862 4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
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No More Than Five in a Bed: Colorado Hotels in the Old Days
No More Than Five in a Bed: Colorado Hotels in the Old Days 3.34 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West 4.29 avg rating — 3,390 ratings
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Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West (Bison Book S)
Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West (Bison Book S) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 146 ratings
29.
Encyclopedia Of Western Lawmen & Outlaws
Encyclopedia Of Western Lawmen & Outlaws 4.07 avg rating — 28 ratings
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A Dynasty of Western Outlaws
A Dynasty of Western Outlaws 3.92 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
by: Dallas
4.22 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality
Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Westward Vision: The Story of the Oregon Trail (Bison Book)
Westward Vision: The Story of the Oregon Trail (Bison Book) 3.71 avg rating — 31 ratings
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High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier
High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier 4.12 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Thrilling Incidents of the Indian War of 1862: Being a Personal Narrative of the Outrages and Horrors Witnessed by Mrs. L. Eastlick in Minnesota (1864)
Thrilling Incidents of the Indian War of 1862: Being a Personal Narrative of the Outrages and Horrors Witnessed by Mrs. L. Eastlick in Minnesota (1864) 4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916
Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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My Captivity: A Pioneer Woman's Story of Her Life Among the Sioux
My Captivity: A Pioneer Woman's Story of Her Life Among the Sioux 3.88 avg rating — 1,855 ratings
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The North American Indian. The Complete Portfolios
The North American Indian. The Complete Portfolios 4.44 avg rating — 532 ratings
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The California Trail: An Epic with Many Heroes
The California Trail: An Epic with Many Heroes 4.16 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Early Times In Texas
Early Times In Texas 4.03 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians
Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians 4.17 avg rating — 4,961 ratings
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The North American Indian: The Complete Portfolios
The North American Indian: The Complete Portfolios 4.44 avg rating — 532 ratings
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Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862
Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 4.16 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Men To Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West 1840-1900
Men To Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West 1840-1900 4.11 avg rating — 1,278 ratings
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Red Cloud's War: Brave Eagle's Account of the Fetterman Fight
Red Cloud's War: Brave Eagle's Account of the Fetterman Fight 4.52 avg rating — 31 ratings
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I Fought With Geronimo
I Fought With Geronimo 4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings
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American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857 4.05 avg rating — 675 ratings
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The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
by: Bob Drury
4.14 avg rating — 6,290 ratings
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Cow Dust And Saddle Leather
Cow Dust And Saddle Leather 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 4.18 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Fetterman Massacre
The Fetterman Massacre
by: Dee Brown
4.32 avg rating — 648 ratings
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Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy 4.04 avg rating — 511 ratings
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The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation 4.31 avg rating — 566 ratings
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Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches
Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches 3.69 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Memories of Old Montana
Memories of Old Montana
by: Con Price
4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill 3.58 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Marvelous Country
Marvelous Country 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Three Battles of Sand Creek: In Blood, in Court, and as the End of History
The Three Battles of Sand Creek: In Blood, in Court, and as the End of History 3.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn 4.04 avg rating — 11,913 ratings
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Cow People
Cow People 4.12 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral--And How It Changed The American West
The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral--And How It Changed The American West 3.97 avg rating — 2,791 ratings
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These Were the Sioux (Bison Book S)
These Were the Sioux (Bison Book S) 3.86 avg rating — 96 ratings
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A Canyon Voyage: The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872
A Canyon Voyage: The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 4.04 avg rating — 82 ratings
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My People the Sioux
My People the Sioux 4.19 avg rating — 890 ratings
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Great Gunfighters of the West
Great Gunfighters of the West 3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881
Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881 4.14 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
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Black Elk, Lakota Visionary: The Oglala Holy Man and Sioux Tradition
Black Elk, Lakota Visionary: The Oglala Holy Man and Sioux Tradition 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A Tour On The Prairies
A Tour On The Prairies 3.73 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Nothing to Do But Stay
Nothing to Do But Stay 3.98 avg rating — 688 ratings
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The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 4.16 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Lewis and Clark among the Indians
Lewis and Clark among the Indians 3.81 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Pioneer Days in the Southwest from 1850 to 1879: Thrilling Descriptions of Buffalo Hunting, Indian Fighting and Massacres, Cowboy Life and Home Building
Pioneer Days in the Southwest from 1850 to 1879: Thrilling Descriptions of Buffalo Hunting, Indian Fighting and Massacres, Cowboy Life and Home Building 3.86 avg rating — 210 ratings
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World of the Teton Sioux Indians: Their Music, Life, and Culture
World of the Teton Sioux Indians: Their Music, Life, and Culture 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists
Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists 4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Went to Kansas
Went to Kansas 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Indian Boyhood: The True Story of a Sioux Upbringing
Indian Boyhood: The True Story of a Sioux Upbringing 4.08 avg rating — 397 ratings
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The Great Chiefs
The Great Chiefs 3.94 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Homesteading
Homesteading 3.77 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Saga of the Sioux
Saga of the Sioux
by: Dee Brown
4.07 avg rating — 104 ratings
81.
The Trailblazers (The Old West, #4)
The Trailblazers (The Old West, #4) 4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Story of My Childhood Written for My Children
Story of My Childhood Written for My Children really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
by: Black Elk
4.23 avg rating — 1,095 ratings
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Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 789 ratings
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Rangers and Pioneers of Texas
Rangers and Pioneers of Texas really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary 4.21 avg rating — 762 ratings
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In the Days of Victorio; Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache
In the Days of Victorio; Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache 4.41 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Five Years A Cavalryman Or, Sketches Of Regular Army Life On The Texas Frontier, 1866-1871 (Western Frontier Library) (Volume 62)
Five Years A Cavalryman Or, Sketches Of Regular Army Life On The Texas Frontier, 1866-1871 (Western Frontier Library) (Volume 62) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Black Elk Speaks
Black Elk Speaks 4.12 avg rating — 18,419 ratings
90.
Vigilante Days and Ways (Sweetgrass Books Reprint Series)
Vigilante Days and Ways (Sweetgrass Books Reprint Series) 4.03 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Crossing the Plains, Days of '57
Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 4.20 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West 4.10 avg rating — 1,280 ratings
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Old Deadwood Days
Old Deadwood Days 3.94 avg rating — 65 ratings
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In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852
In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852 3.98 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Negro Cowboys
The Negro Cowboys 4.39 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The North-West Passage by Land
The North-West Passage by Land 4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Reminiscences of an Indianian From the Sassafras Log Behind the Barn in Posey County to Broader Fields: -1905
Reminiscences of an Indianian From the Sassafras Log Behind the Barn in Posey County to Broader Fields: -1905 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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American Endurance: Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West
American Endurance: Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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We were 49ers!: Chilean accounts of the California Gold Rush
We were 49ers!: Chilean accounts of the California Gold Rush 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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A Texas Pioneer
A Texas Pioneer 3.71 avg rating — 150 ratings
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