Books like The Hunger
In 1846 the wagon train led by George Donner sets out for California, and as it falls behind and takes an untested shortcut, its members begin to suspect something is following them.
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Lone Women
In 1915 Adelaide Henry sets fire to her family's California farm and heads for a homestead in Montana, taking with her a heavy steamer trunk she keeps locked at all times.
The Way West
In 1845 a wagon train sets out from Independence, Missouri, along the Oregon Trail, guided by the mountain man Dick Summers.
Deadwood
Wild Bill Hickok arrives in the lawless mining camp of Deadwood, Dakota Territory, in the weeks before his murder.
The Ruins
Four young Americans on holiday in Cancún agree to help a German tourist find his brother, who went off to an archaeological dig in the jungle and has not come back.
Warlock
A mining town hires a legendary gunman to restore order, but his presence unravels the community's fragile moral fabric.
The Terror
In 1845 the Royal Navy ships Erebus and Terror sail under Sir John Franklin to find the Northwest Passage, and when they are trapped in the Arctic ice, cold, scurvy and starvation are not the only things stalking the crews.
Hondo
A cavalry dispatch rider finds a woman and her son alone on an Apache-threatened ranch and is drawn into their defence.
Butcher's Crossing
A Harvard dropout joins a buffalo-hunting expedition into the Colorado wilderness that becomes a descent into primal obsession.
Ghost Story
In the small town of Milburn, New York, four elderly men who call themselves the Chowder Society meet to tell ghost stories, and after the strange death of a fifth member, a winter of nightmares tells them that a secret from their youth has come back.
Shadow Country
The life and death of E. J. Watson, a sugar planter in the Florida Everglades at the turn of the century, shot dead by his neighbours in 1910, told by them, by his son and by Watson himself.
Welcome to Hard Times
A frontier town's self-appointed mayor tries to rebuild after a drifter's rampage, knowing he will return.
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
In 2012 an academic, Etsy Beaucarne, receives a manuscript found in the wall of a Montana parsonage: her ancestor Arthur, a pastor, wrote down in 1912 the confession of a Blackfeet man named Good Stab.