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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAll the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy · 301 pages
*All the Pretty Horses* is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller, and it won both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Along with *The Crossing* (1994), and C*ities of the Plain* (19
Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey · 294 pages
Riders of the Purple Sage is a novel that tells the story of a woman by the name of Jane Withersteen and her battle to overcome persecution by members of her polygamous Mormon fundamentalist church. A leader of the church, Elder Tull, wants to marry her, but she has evaded him for years. Things get complicated when Bern Venters and Lassiter, a famous gunman and killer of Mormons help her look aft
Winnetou
Karl May · 690 pages
Abridged translation of Karl May's novel "Winnetou" from 1893, with biographical and statistical material.
Little Big Man
Thomas Berger · 444 pages
Believe it or not, Jack Crabb is 111 years old. He is also the son of two fathers, one white, the other a Cheyenne Indian chief who gave him the name Little Big Man. As a Cheyenne, Crabb feasted on dog, loved four wives, and saw his people butchered by horse-soldiers commanded by Custer. As a white man, he helped hunt the buffalo into extinction, tangled with Wyatt Earp, cheated Wild Bill Hickok--
Shane
Jack Schaefer · 159 pages
Shane is about a lone man of high principle,who gets caught up in a range war between the cattlmen and farmers.He sides with the farmers when the cattlemen hire a professional gunfighter named Wilson,a man against which the farmers have no chance.Shane alone must save the day.Frontier justice at its best.Circa late eighteen hundreds.
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories
Nancy E. Turner · 400 pages
A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has set her upon—from child to determined young adult to loving mother—she shares the turbulent events, both jo
The Power of the Dog
Thomas Savage · 283 pages
First published in 1967, Thomas Savage's western novel about two brothers and the competition between them when one marries now includes an afterword by Annie Proulx.
The Cowboy and the Cossack
Clair Huffaker · 456 pages
The Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWitt · 379 pages
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, El
Lorna Doone
R.D. Blackmore · 571 pages
This work is called a 'romance,' because the incidents, characters, time, and scenery, are alike romantic. And in shaping this old tale, the Writer neither dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historic novel.
True Grit
Charles Portis · 215 pages
True Grit is Charles Portis' most famous novel--first published in 1968. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest availab
Warlock
Oakley Hall · 471 pages
Sharpshooter Clay Blaisedell is called to Warlock, a wild frontier town, to restore order, but the more he tries to fix the town's problems, the more the town plunges into chaos all around him.
Appaloosa
Robert B. Parker · 296 pages
When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a town suffering at the hands of a renegade rancher who’s already left the city marshal and one of his deputies dead. Cole and Hitch are used to cleaning up after scavengers, but this one raises the stakes by playing not with the rules—but with emotion.
Half Broke Horses
Jeannette Walls · 313 pages
It is 1970 in a small town in California. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean returns from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take the bus to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decay
The Time It Never Rained
Elmer Kelton · 416 pages
This is a novel of people and times of a real, honest to goodness tragedy in Texas history. It is the story of the time and the people who live and worked in Western Texas during the severe prolonged drought of the 1950's. The ranchers and business people who lived and survived the time and the loss of their homes and business because of circumstances beyond their control. A real life story abo
Only His
Elizabeth Lowell · 400 pages
Willow Moran must rely on gunfighter Caleb Black to lead her from her Civil War-ravaged home to her brother's refuge in the Colorado Rockies. In the course of their journey, this spirited Southern lady will become a fever in Caleb's blood -- and Willow must also acknowledge that this wild man is her destiny. Read all of Elizabeth Lowell's historical novels of the American West: Only His; Only Mine
So Brave, Young and Handsome
Leif Enger · 287 pages
The story of an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him.