Books like How Much of These Hills Is Gold
In gold-rush California, two newly orphaned Chinese American siblings set out across the hills with their father's body, looking for the right place to bury him and for some claim on a land that keeps rejecting them.
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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.
All the Pretty Horses
A young Texan rides into 1940s Mexico to work on a ranch, and the violence and beauty of the borderlands reshape everything he believes about honour and love.
Butcher's Crossing
A Harvard dropout joins a buffalo-hunting expedition into the Colorado wilderness that becomes a descent into primal obsession.
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.
The Searchers
A Civil War veteran spends years searching for his niece, kidnapped by Comanches, driven by a fixation that consumes him.
Fools Crow
In Montana in the 1870s, White Man's Dog, a young Blackfeet warrior, grows into Fools Crow, a healer, as white settlement closes in on his people.
Days Without End
Thomas McNulty, a young Irish emigrant who fled the famine, enlists with his beloved John Cole in the US Army and fights through the Indian Wars and the Civil War, telling it all in a voice like no one else's.
Monte Walsh
A lifelong cowboy watches the open range vanish as railroads, barbed wire, and corporations transform the American West.
The Way West
In 1845 a wagon train sets out from Independence, Missouri, along the Oregon Trail, guided by the mountain man Dick Summers.
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston grows up in her family's laundry in Stockton, California, on her mother's ghost stories and Chinese legends, and sets them beside her own life as the American daughter of immigrants.
Deadwood
Wild Bill Hickok arrives in the lawless mining camp of Deadwood, Dakota Territory, in the weeks before his murder.