Great books about the Old West
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The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado
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Elliott West
3.93 avg rating — 398 ratings 101. 
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21 Months a Captive: Rachel Plummer and the Fort Parker Massacre (Annotated)
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Rachel Plummer
3.82 avg rating — 364 ratings 104. 
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Frontier Living: An Illustrated Guide to Pioneer Life in America
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Edwin Tunis
3.91 avg rating — 218 ratings 108. 
The Spirit Lake Massacre and the Captivity of Abbie Gardner (Expanded, Annotated) 3.90 avg rating — 396 ratings
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The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
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James Mooney
4.16 avg rating — 43 ratings 
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The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
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Black Elk
4.23 avg rating — 1,095 ratings 
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Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers
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George Durham
4.30 avg rating — 126 ratings 120. 
The Cattlemen from the Rio Grande Across the Far Marias
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Mari Sandoz
4.15 avg rating — 34 ratings 120. 
Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War 4.19 avg rating — 660 ratings
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Outlaws on Horseback: The History of the Organized Bands of Bank and Train Robbers Who Terrorized the Prairie Towns of Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory, and Oklahoma for really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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A Canyon Voyage: The Story of John Wesley Powell and the Charting of the Grand Canyon 4.04 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Ten Texas Feuds (Historians of the Frontier and American West Series)
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C.L. Sonnichsen
3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 127. 
"I Will Fight No More Forever": Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War
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Merrill D. Beal
4.23 avg rating — 523 ratings 
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Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy
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Kent Nerburn
4.32 avg rating — 1,234 ratings 131. 
Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot: Hugh Monroe's Story of His First Year on the Plains 4.37 avg rating — 946 ratings
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Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Re-examined
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Richard A. Fox
4.14 avg rating — 100 ratings 134. 
Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman's Life on the Mormon Frontier
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Mary Ann Hafen
4.03 avg rating — 68 ratings 
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Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
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T.J. Stiles
4.15 avg rating — 1,895 ratings 
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In the Early Days Along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852
by:
Gilbert L. Cole
3.98 avg rating — 44 ratings 143. 
Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
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Evan S. Connell
4.13 avg rating — 3,203 ratings 143. 
The Captivity of the Oatman Girls: The History of the Young Sisters Who Were Abducted by Native Americans in the 1850s 3.44 avg rating — 504 ratings
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Crossing the Plains: a First Hand Narrative of the Early Pioneer Trail to California in 1857 4.20 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Story of Mary Schwandt: Her Captivity During the Sioux Outbreak of 1862
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Mary Schwandt
4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings 
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The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots & Class Conflicts in the American West
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Mark Lause
3.24 avg rating — 50 ratings 157. 
Journal of E. Willard Smith, While with the Fur Traders Vasquez and Sublette, in the Rocky Mountain Region, 1839-1840 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Prairie Gothic: The Story of a West Texas Family (Volume 3) (Frances B. Vick Series)
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John R. Erickson
3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings 160. 
Single Star of the West: The Republic of Texas, 1836-1845 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Story of My Capture and Escape During the Minnesota Indian Massacre of 1862 (1904)
by:
Helen M. Tarble
4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings 163. 
Freedom on the Border: The Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas
by:
Kevin Mulroy
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings 163. 
Buckskin Mose : or, Life From the Lakes to the Pacific, as Actor, Circus-Rider, Detective, Ranger, Gold-Digger, Indian Scout, and Guide.
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Buckskin Mose
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Buckskin Mose, Or, Life from the Lakes to the Pacific: As Actor, Circus-rider, Detective, Ranger, Gold-digger, Indian Scout, and Guide
by:
George A. Perrie
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 166. 
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Lost Cause: John Wesley Hardin, the Taylor Sutton Feud, and Reconstruction Texas
by:
Jack Jackson
3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings 
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Forty Years a Fur Trader On the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 3.99 avg rating — 444 ratings
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Four Years in the Rockies -- the Adventures of Isaac P. Rose--Hunter and Trapper in that Remote Region (1884)
by:
James B. Marsh
3.82 avg rating — 696 ratings 
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A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
by:
Amy S. Greenberg
3.97 avg rating — 1,746 ratings 177. 
Journal Of A Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843
by:
Osborne Russell
3.85 avg rating — 1,581 ratings 177. 
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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The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848
by:
Martin Dugard
4.14 avg rating — 562 ratings 180. 
Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide
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John Nelson
4.34 avg rating — 807 ratings 
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The Battle of Churubusco: American Rebels in the Mexican-American War
by:
Andrea Ferraris
3.70 avg rating — 114 ratings 183. 
The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians 4.28 avg rating — 506 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)
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Sarah Ann Horn
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
by:
H.W. Brands
4.05 avg rating — 1,630 ratings 189. 
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Breaking Chains: Slavery on Trial in the Oregon Territory
by:
R. Gregory Nokes
3.73 avg rating — 81 ratings 
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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
