Go West: Selected Fiction
Discover the best Western fiction with 'Go West: Selected Fiction.' Explore a curated list of top books set in the Wild West, featuring adventure, drama, and timeless tales of the frontier.
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The Big Sky
by Alfred B. Guthrie
Taciturn, blood-thirsty, unwashed, Boone Caudill is the prototype of the Mountain Man who won the West.
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Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and …
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Keep the Change
by Thomas McGuane
Joe Starling, a man teetering on the edge of spectacular failures--as an artist, rancher, lover, and human being--is also a man of noble ambitions. His …
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Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey
Story of the Stamper family and their struggles in the Oregon timber country.
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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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A Good Day to Die
by Jim Harrison
Their plans were conceived in a drunken excitement and resulted in more horror than any of them could have imagined. There was the poet able …
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie
In his darkly comic short story collection, the author brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life …
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Rock Springs
by Richard Ford
In these ten stories, Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West--and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the …
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Where I'm Calling From
by Raymond Carver
The final story collection from “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) features classic stories from Cathedral, What We …
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English Creek
by Ivan Doig
The inaugural book in Ivan Doig's highly acclaimed, much-beloved Montana Trilogy.
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O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
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The Meadow
by James Galvin
Tells the hundred-year story of a meadow in the mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border and the people who are possessed by this terrain.