Books like The Way West
In 1845 a wagon train sets out from Independence, Missouri, along the Oregon Trail, guided by the mountain man Dick Summers.
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Butcher's Crossing
A Harvard dropout joins a buffalo-hunting expedition into the Colorado wilderness that becomes a descent into primal obsession.
Centennial
The history of a fictional Colorado town from prehistoric times through the twentieth century, told through its land and its people.
Warlock
A mining town hires a legendary gunman to restore order, but his presence unravels the community's fragile moral fabric.
Deadwood
Wild Bill Hickok arrives in the lawless mining camp of Deadwood, Dakota Territory, in the weeks before his murder.
Hondo
A cavalry dispatch rider finds a woman and her son alone on an Apache-threatened ranch and is drawn into their defence.
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.
Monte Walsh
A lifelong cowboy watches the open range vanish as railroads, barbed wire, and corporations transform the American West.
Riders of the Purple Sage
A mysterious gunslinger arrives to protect a Mormon woman from the elders who covet her ranch and her freedom.
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.
Appaloosa
Two itinerant lawmen are hired to clean up a town terrorised by a ruthless rancher, testing their partnership and principles.
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.