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A mysterious gunslinger arrives to protect a Mormon woman from the elders who covet her ranch and her freedom.
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Hondo
A cavalry dispatch rider finds a woman and her son alone on an Apache-threatened ranch and is drawn into their defence.
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.
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.
The Way West
In 1845 a wagon train sets out from Independence, Missouri, along the Oregon Trail, guided by the mountain man Dick Summers.
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.
Appaloosa
Two itinerant lawmen are hired to clean up a town terrorised by a ruthless rancher, testing their partnership and principles.
Centennial
The history of a fictional Colorado town from prehistoric times through the twentieth century, told through its land and its people.
Monte Walsh
A lifelong cowboy watches the open range vanish as railroads, barbed wire, and corporations transform the American West.
True Grit
A fourteen-year-old girl hires a hard-drinking U.S. Marshal to track down her father's killer in Indian Territory.
Outlawed
In 1894, in an America where women who cannot bear children are suspected of witchcraft, Ada, seventeen, flees her town after a year of marriage without a baby and falls in with the Hole in the Wall Gang, led by a preacher-turned-outlaw known as the Kid.
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.