If you're looking for an escape, how about going back in time to when a horse was a man's best friend, duels were a national pastime and Stetson hats were all the rage. Take a trip back to the ol' west with these 10 reads. Ride 'em, Cowboy!
Fiction
Comanche Indian captive Eli
McCullough must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does
not fully belong -- a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and
luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.
With her papa's pistol tied to her saddlehorn and a supersized
ration of audacity, fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross sets out to avenge her
father's murder.
After the death of her immigrant father, Antonia works as a
servant for neighbors in the farmlands of Nebraska. She leaves for an
unfortunate affair with an Irish railway conductor, but returns home,
eventually marries and raises a large family in true pioneer style.
Set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush, this darkly comic
novel follows the misadventures of the fabled Sisters brothers, two
hired guns who, under the order of the mysterious Commodore, try to kill
Hermann Kermit Warm, a man who gives them a run for their money.
Set in the late-nineteenth century, this novel chronicles a cattle
drive from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the
cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a
sinister Indian renegade.
Refusing to marry the grim, brutal Elder Tull, Jane Withersteen is dismayed when her Utah ranch and hired hands are targeted in retaliation, and the mysterious gunfighter Lassiter offers Jane protection and a chance at love.
Nonfiction
A revisionist history of the Old West battle challenges popular
depictions of such figures as the Earps and Doc Holliday, tracing the
influence of a love triangle, renegade Apaches and the citizens of
Tombstone.
Examines America's westward expansion, describing the forcible
subjugation of Native American tribes, including the fierce battles
against the Navajo which ended with a brutal siege at Canyon de Chelly
and the "Long Walk" migration.
Describes in sometimes brutal detail the actions of both whites and
Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins
with the Comanche kidnapping of a white 9-year-old girl, who grew up to
love her captors, marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who
became a great warrior.
A chronicle of the two-and-a-half year journey of Lewis and Clark covers
their incredible hardships, first encounters with Native Americans, the
contributions of Sacajawea, and Lewis' post-journey depression.
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