Southwestern Frontier History and Historical Fiction
Explore the rugged tales of the Southwestern Frontier with our curated list of historical fiction and history books. Dive into gripping stories of adventure, conflict, and culture in the Old West.
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Blood and Thunder
by Hampton Sides
In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by …
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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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Comanches
by T.R. Fehrenbach
Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches’ rise to power, …
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The Captured
by Scott Zesch
A descendant of a white man who embraced Native American culture after his capture in 1870 offers insight into how and why non-native captives became …
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The Buffalo War
by James L. Haley
The U.S. Army battles three powerful Indian tribes, the Comanches, Kiowas and Southern Cheyennes, in the Texas Panhandle. Originally published in 1976.
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The Buckskin Line
by Elmer Kelton
In 1861, Rusty Shannon, whose family was killed by a Comanche war party twenty years earlier, rides out from the family homestead to join a …
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The Texas Rangers
by Mike Cox
Explores the history of the Texas Rangers from their origin in 1821 to protect the settlers from the Karankawa Indians, and describes how they became …
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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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The Kiowa Verdict
by Cynthia Haseloff
This Spur Award-winning novel is set in 1871, when members of an Indian war party are put on trial to defend their brutal attack of …
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The North Fork
by Don Butler
Recounts the unique--but often overlooked--history of a land that was once a part of Comancheria, the home of the Comanches and Kiowas until control of …
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The Searchers
by Alan Le May
The epic American Western classic from the author of The Unforgiven. Twice Mart Pauley had watched as the bloodthirsty Commanches destroyed everything he held dear. …
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Killing Cynthia Ann
by Charles Brashear
Late in 1860, she and toddler Topsannah (as the whites called her) were recaptured by Texas rangers and returned to "civilization" and the extended Parker …
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Ride the Wind
by Lucia St. Clair Robson
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of Cynthia Ann Parker and the last days of the Comanche In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia …
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The Last Comanche Chief
by Bill Neeley
Critical acclaim for The Last Comanche Chief "Truly distinguished. Neeley re-creates the character and achievements of this most significant of all Comanche leaders." -- Robert …
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Bad Medicine & Good
by Wilbur Sturtevant Nye
One of the great tribes of the Southwest Plains, the Kiowas were militantly defiant toward white intruders in their territory and killed more during seventy-five …
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The Indian Frontier 1846-1890
by Robert M. Utley
First published in 1984, Robert Utley's The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890, is considered a classic for both students and scholars. For this …
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Carbine and Lance
by Wilbur Sturtevant Nye
Fort Sill is in the heart of the old Kiowa-Comanche Indian country in southwestern Oklahoma. For the student of the American frontier, Fort Sill is …
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Washita : the U.S. Army and the Southern Cheyennes, 1867-1869
by Jerome A. Greene
In this remarkably balanced history, Jerome A. Greene describes Custer attack on the Cheyenne at the Washita River--its causes, conduct, and consequences--even as he addresses …
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Once They Moved Like The Wind
by David Roberts
Recounts the days of the Indian wars when the U.S. Cavalry repeatedly tried to subdue the great warriors led by Cochise and, later, Geronimo.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
From one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century: a truly remarkable book" (The New York Times), an epic story of a …
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In Dull Knife's Wake
by Vernon R. Maddux
In 1877, after the defeat of Custer at Little Bighorn, the U.S. Government removed the Northern Cheyenne from their traditional homelands to a reservation in …
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Telegraph Days
by Larry McMurtry
Recounts myths of the closing decades of the western frontier viewed through the eyes of Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson, orphans that make good …
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Tribal Wars of the Southern Plains
by Stan Hoig
Few people who cross the Great Plains today recollect that for centuries the land was a battleground where Indian nations fought one another for their …
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Eyewitnesses to the Indian wars : 1865 - 1890. 3. Conquering the Southern Plains
by Peter Cozzens
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Dying Thunder
by Terry C. Johnston
Seamus Donegan and his men follow an ever more scarce herd into the Kiowa and Comanche's sacred hunting ground. Now Donegan and a handful of …