Favourite Old West History Reads

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Songs of the Cowboys: The First Printed Collection of Cowboy Songs Collected at the Turn of the Century
Songs of the Cowboys: The First Printed Collection of Cowboy Songs Collected at the Turn of the Century 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Life among the Apaches (Bison Book S)
Life among the Apaches (Bison Book S) 3.88 avg rating — 621 ratings
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Pioneering in Dakota
Pioneering in Dakota really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots & Class Conflicts in the American West
The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots & Class Conflicts in the American West 3.24 avg rating — 50 ratings
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War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861
War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861 3.68 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Thirty Years on the Frontier
Thirty Years on the Frontier 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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For a Cowboy Has to Sing
For a Cowboy Has to Sing 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Indian Boyhood
Indian Boyhood 4.08 avg rating — 397 ratings
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A Bride Goes West
A Bride Goes West 4.01 avg rating — 315 ratings
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"The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" and Other Songs Cowboys Sing
"The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" and Other Songs Cowboys Sing 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn 4.13 avg rating — 3,203 ratings
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Plain Anne Ellis: More About the Life of an Ordinary Woman
Plain Anne Ellis: More About the Life of an Ordinary Woman 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads 3.51 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Romance of the Colorado River
The Romance of the Colorado River 3.79 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Fighting the Mill Creeks: Being a Personal Account of Campaigns Against Indians of the Northern Sierras (1909)
Fighting the Mill Creeks: Being a Personal Account of Campaigns Against Indians of the Northern Sierras (1909) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Entertaining Women: Actresses, Dancers, and Singers in the Old West
Entertaining Women: Actresses, Dancers, and Singers in the Old West 3.21 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States 4.30 avg rating — 145 ratings
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By Ox Team to California: Crossing the Plains in 1860
By Ox Team to California: Crossing the Plains in 1860 4.24 avg rating — 878 ratings
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Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit
Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit 3.51 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Old Jules
Old Jules 3.90 avg rating — 636 ratings
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A Tenderfoot Kid on Gyp Water
A Tenderfoot Kid on Gyp Water really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado
The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado 3.93 avg rating — 398 ratings
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Gold Dust and Gunsmoke: Tales of Gold Rush Outlaws, Gunfighters, Lawmen, and Vigilantes
Gold Dust and Gunsmoke: Tales of Gold Rush Outlaws, Gunfighters, Lawmen, and Vigilantes 3.76 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Letters From Tully: A Woman's Life on the Dakota Frontier
Letters From Tully: A Woman's Life on the Dakota Frontier 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the American Old West
The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the American Old West 4.01 avg rating — 1,029 ratings
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An Owl On Every Post
An Owl On Every Post 4.27 avg rating — 467 ratings
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Elisha Brooks (Classic Reprint): The Life-Story of a California Pioneer
Elisha Brooks (Classic Reprint): The Life-Story of a California Pioneer 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West
Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West 3.63 avg rating — 583 ratings
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Climax at Buena Vista: The Decisive Battle of the Mexican-American War
Climax at Buena Vista: The Decisive Battle of the Mexican-American War 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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I Married a Soldier: Or Old Days in the Old Army
I Married a Soldier: Or Old Days in the Old Army 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Frontier Teachers: Stories Of Heroic Women Of The Old West, First Edition
Frontier Teachers: Stories Of Heroic Women Of The Old West, First Edition 3.77 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Women and Men on the Overland Trail
Women and Men on the Overland Trail 3.56 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Cowboys, Cooks, and Catastrophes
Cowboys, Cooks, and Catastrophes 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West 3.78 avg rating — 1,721 ratings
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Frémont: Pathmarker of the West
Frémont: Pathmarker of the West really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Daughter of the Regiment: Memoirs of a Childhood in the Frontier Army, 1878-1898
Daughter of the Regiment: Memoirs of a Childhood in the Frontier Army, 1878-1898 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West
Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief (Volume 204) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief (Volume 204) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) 3.82 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Cripple Creek Days
Cripple Creek Days 3.88 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Lady Was a Gambler: True Stories of Notorious Women of the Old West
Lady Was a Gambler: True Stories of Notorious Women of the Old West 3.74 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness
Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness 3.86 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Prairie Gothic: The Story of a West Texas Family (Volume 3) (Frances B. Vick Series)
Prairie Gothic: The Story of a West Texas Family (Volume 3) (Frances B. Vick Series) 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone
Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone 3.88 avg rating — 720 ratings
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Border Life
Border Life 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Great Salt Lake Trail
The Great Salt Lake Trail 4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings
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A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World’s First National Park
A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World’s First National Park 4.19 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Apache Lightning: The Last Great Battles of the Ojo Calientes
Apache Lightning: The Last Great Battles of the Ojo Calientes it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 (Yale Western Americana Paperbound, Yw-3.)
Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 (Yale Western Americana Paperbound, Yw-3.) 3.59 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Journals of Lewis and Clark
Journals of Lewis and Clark 4.12 avg rating — 5,348 ratings
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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush 3.76 avg rating — 233 ratings
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The Cattle Queen of Montana
The Cattle Queen of Montana 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West 3.91 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Crimson Desert: Indian Wars of the American Southwest
Crimson Desert: Indian Wars of the American Southwest 3.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Little Pills, an Army Story
Little Pills, an Army Story 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Scenes of Visionary Enchantment: Reflections on Lewis and Clark
Scenes of Visionary Enchantment: Reflections on Lewis and Clark 4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Such Men as Billy the Kid: The Lincoln County War Reconsidered
Such Men as Billy the Kid: The Lincoln County War Reconsidered 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Recollections of My Boyhood
Recollections of My Boyhood 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery: An Illustrated History
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery: An Illustrated History 4.17 avg rating — 490 ratings
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The Fur Trade of the American West: A Geographical Synthesis
The Fur Trade of the American West: A Geographical Synthesis 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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A Journey to the Rocky Mountains in 1839
A Journey to the Rocky Mountains in 1839 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 3.99 avg rating — 13,754 ratings
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Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail
Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Boy's Life In The West
A Boy's Life In The West liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier 4.23 avg rating — 66,335 ratings
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A Way Through the Wilderness: The Natchez Trace and the Civilization of the Southern Frontier
A Way Through the Wilderness: The Natchez Trace and the Civilization of the Southern Frontier 3.93 avg rating — 128 ratings
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True Tales of the Plains (1908)
True Tales of the Plains (1908) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Crazy Horse and Custer
Crazy Horse and Custer 4.22 avg rating — 9,097 ratings
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The Desert Home or the Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness
The Desert Home or the Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness 3.90 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Soldiering in Dakota, Among the Indians: In 1863-4-5 (1888)
Soldiering in Dakota, Among the Indians: In 1863-4-5 (1888) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Ghosts Of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
Ghosts Of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 3.86 avg rating — 1,032 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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The Story of a Kansas Pioneer
The Story of a Kansas Pioneer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Railroads in the Days of Steam
Railroads in the Days of Steam 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Across the Plains by Prairie Schooner: Personal Narrative of B. F. Bonney of His Trip to Sutter's Fort, California, in 1846, and of His Pioneer ... Provisional Government
Across the Plains by Prairie Schooner: Personal Narrative of B. F. Bonney of His Trip to Sutter's Fort, California, in 1846, and of His Pioneer ... Provisional Government liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America
Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America 3.67 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Catch Rope: The Long Arm of the Cowboy (Western Life Series)
Catch Rope: The Long Arm of the Cowboy (Western Life Series) 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Francis Parkman: The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac
Francis Parkman: The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac 3.99 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Cowboy Country
Cowboy Country 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Oregon Trail: The Road to Destiny
Oregon Trail: The Road to Destiny 3.53 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Story of Nancy McClure, Captivity Among the Sioux
The Story of Nancy McClure, Captivity Among the Sioux 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Meek Cutoff: Tracing the Oregon Trail's Lost Wagon Train of 1845
The Meek Cutoff: Tracing the Oregon Trail's Lost Wagon Train of 1845 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Luzena Stanley Wilson, '49er
Luzena Stanley Wilson, '49er 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey 3.86 avg rating — 13,217 ratings
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A Lady's Experiences in the Wild West in 1883 (1888)
A Lady's Experiences in the Wild West in 1883 (1888) 3.69 avg rating — 35 ratings
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On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape 3.96 avg rating — 171 ratings
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A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Horn and her two children, with Mrs. Harris, by the Comanche Indians (1839)
A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Horn and her two children, with Mrs. Harris, by the Comanche Indians (1839) 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail
The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail 3.97 avg rating — 574 ratings
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Narrative of the Sufferings of Mrs. Jane Adeline Wilson, During Her Captivity Among the Comanche Indians
Narrative of the Sufferings of Mrs. Jane Adeline Wilson, During Her Captivity Among the Comanche Indians 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West 4.05 avg rating — 4,163 ratings
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Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers
Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers 4.30 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Joe Hill
Joe Hill 3.74 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Trails I Rode
Trails I Rode
by: Con Price
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Month of the Freezing Moon: The Sand Creek Massacre, November 1864
Month of the Freezing Moon: The Sand Creek Massacre, November 1864 3.86 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Story of My Capture and Escape During the Minnesota Indian Massacre of 1862 (1904)
The Story of My Capture and Escape During the Minnesota Indian Massacre of 1862 (1904) 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath
Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath 4.41 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Buckelew, The Indian Captive, or the Life Story of F. M. Bucklew While a Captive Among the Lipan Indians in the Western Wilds of Frontier Texas
Buckelew, The Indian Captive, or the Life Story of F. M. Bucklew While a Captive Among the Lipan Indians in the Western Wilds of Frontier Texas 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Massacre at Mountain Meadows 4.02 avg rating — 1,262 ratings
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After the Massacre: The Violent Legacy of the San Saba Mission
After the Massacre: The Violent Legacy of the San Saba Mission 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told
A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890
Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890 3.49 avg rating — 711 ratings
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