Books like Cities of the Plain
The final volume of the Border Trilogy: John Grady Cole and Billy Parham's paths converge in a border town where the old West finally, irrevocably dies.
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Lonesome Dove
Two retired Texas Rangers drive a cattle herd from the Rio Grande to Montana, finding adventure, heartbreak, and the last breath of the frontier.
Butcher's Crossing
A Harvard dropout joins a buffalo-hunting expedition into the Colorado wilderness that becomes a descent into primal obsession.
Monte Walsh
A lifelong cowboy watches the open range vanish as railroads, barbed wire, and corporations transform the American West.
Still Born
Two Mexico City friends make opposite choices about motherhood and find their lives entwined anyway around an ailing newborn.
The Virginian
A refined Eastern schoolteacher arrives in Wyoming and falls for a charming, principled cowboy who lives by his own code.
Shane
A boy narrates the story of an enigmatic stranger who rides into a Wyoming valley and becomes entangled in a ranchers' war.
Riders of the Purple Sage
A mysterious gunslinger arrives to protect a Mormon woman from the elders who covet her ranch and her freedom.
Blood Meridian
A teenage runaway joins a band of scalp hunters in the 1850s borderlands, led by a figure of absolute evil, in McCarthy's most brutal and mythic novel.
Welcome to Hard Times
A frontier town's self-appointed mayor tries to rebuild after a drifter's rampage, knowing he will return.
Warlock
A mining town hires a legendary gunman to restore order, but his presence unravels the community's fragile moral fabric.
Hondo
A cavalry dispatch rider finds a woman and her son alone on an Apache-threatened ranch and is drawn into their defence.
In the Distance
Håkan, a young Swedish emigrant separated from his brother on the way to America, lands in California during the gold rush and sets off on foot towards New York, against the tide of westward migration, through deserts and violence.