Cowboys: 30 books of Western fiction
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The Fruit of Stone
by Mark Spragg
Chronicles the story of two lifelong friends who love the same woman, and the journey that will take them through the West and into the …
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An Unfinished Life
by Mark Spragg
Mark Spragg's highly acclaimed novel of a complex prodigal homecoming comes to the big screen in December. The Miramax release stars Jennifer Lopez. Robert Redford, …
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Close Range
by Annie Proulx
A collection of short stories, which includes the short story, Brokeback Mountain.
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Bad Dirt
by Annie Proulx
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx returns with another stellar collection of short stories bound to be even more successful than her …
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Fencing the Sky
by James Galvin
A rancher in the West lassos a pushy land developer, breaking his neck. The rancher flees into the wilds, helped by fellow ranchers and is …
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Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
Tells of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana and shows how one man's dream to create an empire affects others.
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Horseman, Pass By
by Larry McMurtry
Told from a 17-year-old's point of view, Hud emerges as ruthless, cold and mean.
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Leaving Cheyenne
by Larry McMurtry
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry comes the second novel about love and loss on the great plains of Texas. From …
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The Log of a Cowboy
by Andy Adams
A classic fictional chronicle of life on the open trail, THE LOG OF A COWBOY has long been considered the best and most reliable account …
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The Blind Corral
by Ralph Beer
When Jackson Heckethorn returns home from the army, he hopes his family will sell the ranch they have sweated, cursed and fought over for three …
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The Power of the Dog
by Thomas Savage
"A pitch-perfect evocation of time and place" (Boston Globe) for readers of East of Eden and "Brokeback Mountain." This new edition, with an afterword by …
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On the Night Plain
by J. Robert Lennon
At the end of World War II, Grant Person abandons his family's ranch for a fishing boat on the Atlantic, only to be drawn back …
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Hey Cowboy, Wanna Get Lucky?
by Baxter F. Black
The bestselling novel from America’s premier cowboy poet. Cowboys Lick and Cody are on a quest to qualify for the rodeo national finals—and their widely …
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In Open Spaces
by Russell Rowland
Set in the vast and unforgiving prairie of eastern Montana from 1916 to 1946, In Open Spaces is the compelling story of the Arbuckle brothers: …
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All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer …
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Last Buckaroo
by Mackey Hedges
A 20th Century cowboy and the scrapes he gets into. He is Tap McCoy who narrates his many fights and binges, his rodeos and various …
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The Weight of Dreams
by Adele Hall Professor of English Jonis Agee
Twenty years after a teenage bout of vandalism ends in the brutal beating of a young Indian, a man returns to the sandhills of Nebraska …
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The Calling
by Dick Hyson
A modern cowboy turns sleuth to thwart a conspiracy to steal his employer's land. He is Frank Dalton, a half-Indian, and his investigation portrays everyday …
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The Virginian
by Owen Wister
This classic tells the story of the Wyoming ranch foreman known only as the Virgianian, his courtship of school teacher Molly Starkwood, and his encounters …
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Salvation Gap and Other Western Classics
by Owen Wister
Owen Wister invented the Western novel with The Virginian, and that work and this collection of stories prove that, although many have gone after him, …
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Lin Mclean
by Owen Wister
From the bestselling author of The Virginian comes Lin McLean, Wister's first novel, about a young cowboy from the Wind River country in Wyoming who …
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Brave Cowboy
by Edward Abbey
The Brave Cowboy Jack Burnes is a loner at odds with modern civilization. A man out of time, he rides a feisty chestnut mare across …
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The Work of Wolves
by Kent Meyers
When fourteen-year-old Carson Fielding bought his first horse from Magnus Yarborough, it became clear that the teenager was a better judge of horses than the …
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Last Go Round
by Ken Kesey
It was around a sagebrush campfire in eastern Oregon that Kesey first heard the tale from his father - about the legendary "last go round" …
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Monte Walsh
by Jack Schaefer
Monte Walsh has never met a horse he couldn’t ride, and Chet Rollins has never met one he couldn’t rope. For a decade they are …
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The Hanging Tree
by Dorothy M. Johnson
Collection of ten Western stories built around the title selection which is based on a true episode in Montana's gold-mining past in which three unlikely …
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The Hi Lo Country
by Max Evans
Now a major motion picture from Gramercy Pictures starring Woody Harrelson, Billy Crudup, and Patricia Arquette. They were two cowboys out of the New Mexico …
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Cow Country
by Will James
The words cow country bring to mind round-up wagons, saddle horses, ridgers, branding irons, and the wide open range -- a place where there's not …
