Books – Novels & History (non-ref)

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A list of the novels and books on the History of the West
(not used as references for The Reader)
but noted in WEEKS, Quotes, Photo Gallery, etc.; by Author.

 

Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn (see: Wk. 24, 06/14/1948)

Doomswoman (1892)
Before the Gringo Came (1894)
The Californians (1898)
Black Oxen (1923)
California: an Intimate History
(1936)

Blackburn, Tom W.  (see: Wk. 31, 08/02/1992)

Tumbleweed with Spurs (1940)
Raton Pass (1950) (novel & screenplay)
Short Grass (1950) (novel & screenplay)
Navajo Canyon (1953)
Sierra Baron (1955)
A Good Day to Die (1967)

Bly, Nellie  (see: Wk. 04, 01/27/1922)

Six Month in Mexico (1888)

Brand, Max  (see: Wk. 19, 05/12/1944)

Destry Rides Again (1937?)
Black Thunder (1920′s?)

Buntline, Ned  (see:Wk. 29, 07/16/1886)

Buffalo Bill, King of the Border Men (1869)

Custer, Elizabeth Bacon “Libby”  (see: Wk. 14, 04/04/1933)

Boots and Saddles (1885)
Following the Guidon (1890)
Tenting on the Plains (1893)

Custer, Lt. Colonel George Armstrong
(see: Wk. 26, 06/29/1867; Wk. 26, 06/25/1876 & Quotes – Indians [Custer])

My Life on the Plains (1872)

Dobie, J. Frank  (see: Wk. 34, 09/18/1964)

A Vaquero of the Brush Country (1929) [co-authored with John Young]
The Longhorns (1941)
The Mustangs
(1952)
Cow People (1964)

Dykstra, Robert

The Cattle Towns (1971)

Eastman, Dr. Charles A. (see: Wk. 2, 01/08/1939)

Memories of an Indian Boyhood (1902)
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (1918)
The Madness of Bald Eagle (1905)

Fisher, Vardis  (see: Wk. 51, 12/21/1972)

Mountain Man  (1965) [fiction]

Frantz, Joe Bertram w/ Cordelia Sloan Duke

6,000 Miles of Fence: Life on the XIT Ranch of Texas (1961)

Foote, Mary Hallock  (see: Wk. 26, 06/25/1938)

Led-Horse Claim (1883)
A Touch of Sun and Other Stories (1903)
The Valley Road (1913)

Fremont, Jessie Benton   (see: Wk. 52, 12/27/1902)

A Year of American Travel: Narrative of Personal Experience (1878)
Souvenirs of My Time (1887).

Glenn, Shirley

The Fighting Marlows: Men Who Wouldn’t Be Lynched (1994) {NOT Listed}

Grey, Zane   (see: Wk. 43, 10/23/1939)

The Heritage of the Desert (1910)
The Last of the Plainsmen (1908)
Riders of the Purple Sage (1912)
Lone Star Ranger (1915)
The Vanishing American (1925)
The Code of the West (1934)

Grinnell, George Bird   (see: Wk. 15, 04/11/1938)

Pawnee Hero Tales (1889)
Blackfoot Lodge Tales (1892)
The Story of the Indian (1895)
The Fighting Cheyennes (1915)
The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways (2 vols., 1923)

Guthrie, A.B. “Bud”  (see: Wk. 17, 04/26/1991)

Murders at Moondance (1943)
The Big Sky (1947)
The Way West (1949)
These Thousand Hills (1956)

Haycox, Ernest

No Law and Order (1942)

Hayden, Dr. Ferdinand Vanderveer  (see: Wk. 51, 12/23/1887)

Geological Report of the Exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers in 1859-1860 (1869)

Hedren, Paul L.  (see: Quotes - Indians)

After Custer; Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country (2011)

Holcomb, Lawrence (no listing)

The Last Yahi: A Novel About Ishi (2000)  [see: Wk. 35, 08/29/1911 & Wk. 12, 03/25/1916]

Jackson, Helen Maria Hunt  (see: Wk. 32, 08/12/1885)

Century of Dishonor (1882)
Ramona
(1884)

Kelly, Charles  (see: Wk. 5, 02/03/1893)

Outlaw Trail (1938)

Kelton, Elmer  (see: Wk. 34, 08/22/2009)

Buffalo Wagons (1957)
The Day the Cowboys Quit (1971)
The Time It Never Rained (1973)
Eyes of the Hawk (1974)
The Good Old Boys
(1979)
The Man Who Rode Midnight (1988)
Slaughter (1992)
The Far Canyon (1994)
The Way of the Coyote (2002)

Kroeber, Theodora (no listing)

Ishi: In Two Worlds (1961)  [see: Wk. 35, 08/29/1911 & Wk. 12, 03/25/1916]
Ishi: Last of his Tribe (1964)  [see: Wk. 35, 08/29/1911 & Wk. 12, 03/25/1916]

Long III, McKendree R. “Mike”  (see: Wk. 34, 08/20/1942)

No Good Like It Is (2010)
Dog Soldier Moon (2011)

Louis Dearborn L’Amour  (see: Wk. 23, 06/10/1988)

Westward the Tide (1951)
Hondo (1953)
Radigan (1958)
Sackett (1961)
How the West was Won (1963)
The Quick and the Dead (1973)
The Haunted Mesa (1987)

McGivern, Ed  (see: Wk. 50, 12/12/1957)

Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting (1938)

Mulford, Clarence E.  (see: Wk. 19, 05/10/1956)

Bar 20 (1906)
Hopalong Cassidy (1910)
Bring Me His Ears (1922)
Mesquite Jenkins (1928)
Hopalong Cassidy Serves a Writ (1941)

Parkman, Francis  (see: Wk. 45, 11/08/1893)

The Jesuits in North America (1867)
La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (1869)
A Half Century of Conflict (1892).

Plummer, Rachael  (see: Wk. 12, 03/19/1839)

Twenty One Months Servitude as a Prisoner among the Commanchee Indian (1838)

Robson, Lucia St. Clair  (see: Wk. 20, 05/20/1836)

Ride the Wind (1982)

Short, Luke  (see: Wk. 36, 09/08/1893)

The Feud at Single Shot (1935)
Blood on the Moon aka: Gunman’s Chance (1941)
Ramrod (1943)
Trouble Country (1976).

Siringo, Charles A. “Charlie”  (see: Wk. 42, 10/18/1928)

A Texas Cowboy;  (1885)
or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
Riata and Spurs
(1912)
Two Evil Isms, Pinkertonism And Anarchism
(1915)
By A Cowboy Detective Who Knows, As He Spent Twenty-Two Years In The Inner Circle Of Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency
.
A History of Billy the Kid
(1920)

Spearman, Frank Hamilton  (see: Wk. 52, 12/27/1937)

Nerve of Foley (1900)
Whispering Smith (1906)

Stegner, Wallace  (see: Wk. 26, 06/25/1938)

Angle of Repose (1971)

Stephens, Ann S.  (see: Wk. 23, 06/09/1860)

Maleaska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter
- the first “Dime Novel” (Beadle’s)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher  (see: Wk. 12, 03/20/1852

Uncle Tom’s Cabin “Life Among the Lowly”

 Thorp, Raymond (jr.) and Robert Bunker (see: Wk 51, 12/21/1972)

Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson  (1958) [fiction]

Vaughn, J. W. (see: Photo Gallery – Indian Photos – Crazy Horse [bottom of page]

With Crook at the Rosebud (1956)

Waggoner, Linda M.

Firelight: The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist (University of Oklahoma 2008)
(see: Wk. 06, 02/06/1919)

Wallace, Lew  (see: Wk. 07, 02/15/1905)

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880)

Wilder, Laura Ingalls  (see: Wk. 6, 02/10/1957)

Little House in the Big Woods (1932)
Little House on the Prairie (1935)

Young, Charles (see: Wk. 02, 01/08/1922)

The Military Morale of Nations and Races (1912)

 

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