The Old West in First Person

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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Letters of a Woman Homesteader 3.93 avg rating — 8,576 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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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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Doc Susie: The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies
Doc Susie: The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies 4.06 avg rating — 605 ratings
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A Bride Goes West
A Bride Goes West 4.01 avg rating — 315 ratings
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Cripple Creek Days
Cripple Creek Days 3.88 avg rating — 134 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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Hearts West: True Stories Of Mail-Order Brides On The Frontier
Hearts West: True Stories Of Mail-Order Brides On The Frontier 3.53 avg rating — 935 ratings
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Elsie: Adventures of an Arizona Schoolteacher 1913-1916
Elsie: Adventures of an Arizona Schoolteacher 1913-1916 3.62 avg rating — 660 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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Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey 4.03 avg rating — 1,485 ratings
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No Life for a Lady
No Life for a Lady 4.05 avg rating — 384 ratings
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A Texas Cowboy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
A Texas Cowboy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony 3.87 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Roughing It
Roughing It 3.88 avg rating — 10,054 ratings
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Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)
Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 15,548 ratings
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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 (Covered Wagon Women, #1)
Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 (Covered Wagon Women, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 421 ratings
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 3.97 avg rating — 3,662 ratings
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Across The Plains In 1844
Across The Plains In 1844 3.82 avg rating — 1,268 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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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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Land of Enchantment: Memoirs of Marian Russell Along the Santa Fe Trail
Land of Enchantment: Memoirs of Marian Russell Along the Santa Fe Trail 4.25 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography 4.07 avg rating — 8,478 ratings
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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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The Home Ranch (Little Britches, #3)
The Home Ranch (Little Britches, #3) 4.46 avg rating — 2,225 ratings
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High, Wide and Lonesome: Growing Up on the Colorado Frontier
High, Wide and Lonesome: Growing Up on the Colorado Frontier 4.31 avg rating — 679 ratings
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The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
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I Married a Soldier
I Married a Soldier 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier 4.03 avg rating — 1,361 ratings
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Letters on an Elk Hunt by a Woman Homesteader
Letters on an Elk Hunt by a Woman Homesteader 4.23 avg rating — 360 ratings
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Writing the Trail: Five Women's Frontier Narratives
Writing the Trail: Five Women's Frontier Narratives 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Cowhand: The True Story of a Working Cowboy
Cowhand: The True Story of a Working Cowboy 3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Desert Wife
Desert Wife 4.07 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Army Letters From an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888: Experiences on the Western Frontier With the United States Army
Army Letters From an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888: Experiences on the Western Frontier With the United States Army 4.18 avg rating — 71 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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Storm and Stampede on the Chisholm
Storm and Stampede on the Chisholm 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Stirrup High
Stirrup High 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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I'll Gather My Geese
I'll Gather My Geese 4.15 avg rating — 180 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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Black Elk Speaks
Black Elk Speaks 4.12 avg rating — 18,419 ratings
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BOY CAPT BEING TRUE (The Garland library of narratives of North American Indian captivities)
BOY CAPT BEING TRUE (The Garland library of narratives of North American Indian captivities)
by: Washburn
4.18 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Land of the Burnt Thigh: A Lively Story of Women Homesteaders on the South Dakota Frontier
Land of the Burnt Thigh: A Lively Story of Women Homesteaders on the South Dakota Frontier 4.04 avg rating — 433 ratings
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Man of the Family (Little Britches, #2)
Man of the Family (Little Britches, #2) 4.52 avg rating — 3,448 ratings
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Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians 3.88 avg rating — 1,855 ratings
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Shaking the Nickel Bush (Little Britches, #6)
Shaking the Nickel Bush (Little Britches, #6) 4.22 avg rating — 1,525 ratings
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The Oregon and California Trail Diary of Jane Gould in 1862: The Unabridged Diary
The Oregon and California Trail Diary of Jane Gould in 1862: The Unabridged Diary 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail
Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail 4.11 avg rating — 367 ratings
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The Dry Divide (Little Britches, #7)
The Dry Divide (Little Britches, #7) 4.33 avg rating — 1,347 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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A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-two Years with a World-Famous Detective Agency
A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-two Years with a World-Famous Detective Agency 3.91 avg rating — 444 ratings
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Left by the Indians
Left by the Indians 3.76 avg rating — 896 ratings
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The Life of an Ordinary Woman
The Life of an Ordinary Woman 3.75 avg rating — 146 ratings
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A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote
A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote 3.64 avg rating — 78 ratings
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A Texas Pioneer
A Texas Pioneer 3.71 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard
Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard 3.96 avg rating — 920 ratings
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Interwoven: A Pioneer Chronicle (Revised: 4th Edition)
Interwoven: A Pioneer Chronicle (Revised: 4th Edition) 4.07 avg rating — 45 ratings
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I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp
I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp 3.64 avg rating — 198 ratings
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
The Journals of Lewis and Clark 4.12 avg rating — 5,347 ratings
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Captivity of the Oatman Girls
Captivity of the Oatman Girls 3.36 avg rating — 423 ratings
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Oregon and Overland Trail Diary of Mary Louisa Black in 1865
Oregon and Overland Trail Diary of Mary Louisa Black in 1865 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 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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Ranch Schoolteacher
Ranch Schoolteacher 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Women's Indian Captivity Narratives
Women's Indian Captivity Narratives 3.60 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Exploring with Frémont
Exploring with Frémont 4.60 avg rating — 10 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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Letters from Honeyhill: A Woman's View of Homesteading, 1914-1922 (The Pruett Series)
Letters from Honeyhill: A Woman's View of Homesteading, 1914-1922 (The Pruett Series) 4.39 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Lady's Choice: Ethel Waxham's Journals and Letters, 1905-1910
Lady's Choice: Ethel Waxham's Journals and Letters, 1905-1910 3.97 avg rating — 34 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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Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865: The Diary of Sarah Raymond Herndon
Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865: The Diary of Sarah Raymond Herndon 3.85 avg rating — 2,934 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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The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson
The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Homesteading
Homesteading 3.77 avg rating — 62 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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Memories of Old Montana
Memories of Old Montana
by: Con Price
4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Letters from the Southwest
Letters from the Southwest 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Life in Custer's Cavalry: Diaries and Letters of Albert and Jennie Barnitz, 1867-1868 (Bison Book S)
Life in Custer's Cavalry: Diaries and Letters of Albert and Jennie Barnitz, 1867-1868 (Bison Book S) 3.89 avg rating — 19 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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Adobe Days
Adobe Days really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings
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A Frontier Doctor
A Frontier Doctor 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Up on the Rim
Up on the Rim 3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Three Years Among the Comanches
Three Years Among the Comanches 4.05 avg rating — 1,156 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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Warpath and Cattle Trail
Warpath and Cattle Trail it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Life of Billie Dixon: Plainsman, Scout, and Pioneer
Life of Billie Dixon: Plainsman, Scout, and Pioneer 4.33 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America and a Stay of Several Years Along the Missouri (During the Years 1824, '25, '26, 1827) (Volume 1)
Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America and a Stay of Several Years Along the Missouri (During the Years 1824, '25, '26, 1827) (Volume 1) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Trails of Yesterday
Trails of Yesterday 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman
Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman 4.06 avg rating — 421 ratings
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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick"
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick"
by: Nat Love
3.82 avg rating — 309 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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Whiskey, Six-Guns and Red-Light Ladies: George Hand's Saloon Diary, Tucson, 1875-1878
Whiskey, Six-Guns and Red-Light Ladies: George Hand's Saloon Diary, Tucson, 1875-1878 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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My Goose is Cooked: Continuation of a West Texas Ranch Woman's Story
My Goose is Cooked: Continuation of a West Texas Ranch Woman's Story 3.97 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Warpath and Bivouac: Or the Conquest of the Sioux
Warpath and Bivouac: Or the Conquest of the Sioux 4.11 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The White Indian Boy: The Story of Uncle Nick Among the Shoshones
The White Indian Boy: The Story of Uncle Nick Among the Shoshones 4.17 avg rating — 767 ratings
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We Sagebrush Folks
We Sagebrush Folks 3.77 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Diary of Elizabeth Bacon Custer: On the Plains with General Custer
The Diary of Elizabeth Bacon Custer: On the Plains with General Custer 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Florida of the Inca
The Florida of the Inca 4.07 avg rating — 43 ratings
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A Long Way from the Cotton Patch
A Long Way from the Cotton Patch really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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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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My First Thirty Years
My First Thirty Years 3.67 avg rating — 392 ratings
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Sagebrush Trilogy: Idah Meacham Strobridge and Her Works
Sagebrush Trilogy: Idah Meacham Strobridge and Her Works 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky
The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky 4.14 avg rating — 481 ratings
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