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Books, that is. Not the hotel chain. A sampling of the best westerns written.
Updated October 2, 2022
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True Grit
Charles Portis
Paper Book
There is no knowing what lies in a man's heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street for a horse, USD150 cash, and two Californian gold pieces. Ross's unusually mature and single-minded fourteen-year-old daughter Mattie...
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All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
Ebook
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The Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWitt
Paper Book
From the author of the acclaimed Ablutions, this dazzlingly original second novel is a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother.
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No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
Paper Book
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The Son
Philipp Meyer
Paper Book
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES starring Pierce Brosnan and co-written by Philipp Meyer The critically acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling epic, a saga of land, blood and power, follows the rise of one...
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown
Paper Book
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling historyThe New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down" Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent,...
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Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Paper Book
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Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Paper Book
Laura Ingalls Wilder's stories of life on the US frontier in the 1870s provide an intimate and warm look at a loving family and a fledgling community.
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Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey
Paper Book
Jane Withersteen, a Mormon ranch owner fighting her community's disapproval, must defend her rights and her home by forming an unlikely alliance with the Mormon-hating Texan gunman Jim Lassiter.
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The Gunslinger
Stephen King
Paper Book
Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, sets out on his journey of good and evil in his ultimate quest for the Dark Tower. This is the first volume in the series.
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