The American Frontier

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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 — 99,685 ratings
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Empire of the Summer Moon
Empire of the Summer Moon 4.24 avg rating — 64,218 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 4.14 avg rating — 426,041 ratings
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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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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West 4.29 avg rating — 19,127 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War 3.89 avg rating — 45,341 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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Life on the Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi 3.87 avg rating — 15,346 ratings
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Crazy Horse and Custer
Crazy Horse and Custer 4.22 avg rating — 9,097 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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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 — 2,788 ratings
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Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey 4.02 avg rating — 1,486 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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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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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America 3.96 avg rating — 9,298 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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Desert Solitaire
Desert Solitaire 4.18 avg rating — 53,114 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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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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Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse 4.24 avg rating — 1,526 ratings
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Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier
Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier 4.12 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Roughing It
Roughing It 3.88 avg rating — 10,055 ratings
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Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape
Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape 4.03 avg rating — 1,012 ratings
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The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail 3.56 avg rating — 3,652 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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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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America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines 4.16 avg rating — 4,838 ratings
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A Bride Goes West
A Bride Goes West 4.01 avg rating — 315 ratings
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Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War 4.10 avg rating — 1,387 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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The Children's Blizzard
The Children's Blizzard 3.89 avg rating — 12,892 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,063 ratings
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Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival 4.09 avg rating — 12,327 ratings
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The War on Powder River
The War on Powder River 3.61 avg rating — 33 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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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons 3.91 avg rating — 1,998 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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The Year of Decision 1846
The Year of Decision 1846 4.13 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Across The Wide Missouri
Across The Wide Missouri 4.08 avg rating — 487 ratings
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The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit 4.02 avg rating — 1,880 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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Searching for Calamity: The Life and Times of Calamity Jane
Searching for Calamity: The Life and Times of Calamity Jane 3.57 avg rating — 164 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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A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca 4.11 avg rating — 3,688 ratings
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The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense
The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense 3.90 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California
Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California 3.44 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore
The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore 3.77 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Quantrill's War: The Life & Times Of William Clarke Quantrill, 1837-1865
Quantrill's War: The Life & Times Of William Clarke Quantrill, 1837-1865 3.87 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Bent's Fort
Bent's Fort 4.32 avg rating — 97 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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The Course Of Empire
The Course Of Empire 4.17 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Ever the Wayward Sky
Ever the Wayward Sky 4.59 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life
Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life 4.02 avg rating — 362 ratings
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The American West
The American West
by: Dee Brown
3.91 avg rating — 874 ratings
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis 4.11 avg rating — 9,933 ratings
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The Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
The Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca 3.68 avg rating — 3,010 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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Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West 4.10 avg rating — 1,281 ratings
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Cheyenne Autumn
Cheyenne Autumn 4.01 avg rating — 370 ratings
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"Wild Bill" Hickman and the Mormon Frontier
"Wild Bill" Hickman and the Mormon Frontier 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West 3.81 avg rating — 4,238 ratings
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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman 3.50 avg rating — 6,183 ratings
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906 3.79 avg rating — 7,186 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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Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950
Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950 3.88 avg rating — 211 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 Great Plains
The Great Plains 3.77 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux 4.12 avg rating — 18,419 ratings
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Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1) 4.21 avg rating — 281,990 ratings
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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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Remote Beyond Compare: Letters of don Diego de Vargas to His Family from New Spain and Mexico, 1675-1706
Remote Beyond Compare: Letters of don Diego de Vargas to His Family from New Spain and Mexico, 1675-1706 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier (Histories of the American Frontier Series)
Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier (Histories of the American Frontier Series) 4.10 avg rating — 48 ratings
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People of Chaco: A Canyon and Its Culture
People of Chaco: A Canyon and Its Culture 3.96 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books
The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books 4.03 avg rating — 1,222 ratings
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Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America 3.75 avg rating — 422 ratings
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My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet (1907)
My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet (1907) 4.44 avg rating — 1,095 ratings
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Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society
Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society 3.54 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Four Corners: History, Land, and People of the Desert Southwest
Four Corners: History, Land, and People of the Desert Southwest 3.63 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Last Conquistador: Juan De Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest
The Last Conquistador: Juan De Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest 4.03 avg rating — 68 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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Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers
Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers 3.86 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson (Midland Book)
Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson (Midland Book) 3.94 avg rating — 1,688 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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The Dillinger Days
The Dillinger Days 3.94 avg rating — 448 ratings
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Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout: White Mountain and Cibecue Apache History Through 1881
Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout: White Mountain and Cibecue Apache History Through 1881 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Chains Across the River - A Novel of the American Revolution
Chains Across the River - A Novel of the American Revolution 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Red Black Dawn
Red Black Dawn 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Comanche Empire
The Comanche Empire 4.17 avg rating — 1,797 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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The Book of the Navajo
The Book of the Navajo 3.91 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Fox and the Whirlwind: General George Crook and Geronimo, A Paired Biography
The Fox and the Whirlwind: General George Crook and Geronimo, A Paired Biography 4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West
Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West 3.58 avg rating — 1,086 ratings
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Three Years Among the Comanches
Three Years Among the Comanches 4.05 avg rating — 1,157 ratings
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Left by the Indians
Left by the Indians 3.76 avg rating — 896 ratings
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Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers
Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers 3.84 avg rating — 180 ratings
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The Doctor Wore Petticoats: Women Physicians of the Old West
The Doctor Wore Petticoats: Women Physicians of the Old West 3.69 avg rating — 433 ratings
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Jesse James Was His Name; or, Fact and Fiction concerning the Careers of the Notorious James Brothers of Missouri
Jesse James Was His Name; or, Fact and Fiction concerning the Careers of the Notorious James Brothers of Missouri 3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West 3.44 avg rating — 6,881 ratings
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Raven
Raven 4.09 avg rating — 327 ratings
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Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds
Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds 4.05 avg rating — 1,427 ratings
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