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Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890 by Larry McMurtry
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Adopting a conversational tone McMurtry briefly (161 pages) explores six 'big massacres' of the Old West.
The Big SkyThe Big Sky by A. B. Guthrie Jr.
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Guthrie's masterful trilogy of the West begins with the ending of the mountain man era.
The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in AmericaThe Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America by Larry McMurtry
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Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental RailroadsHear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads by Dee Brown
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The American WestThe American West by Dee Brown
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Best of Dee Brown's West: An AnthologyBest of Dee Brown's West: An Anthology by Dee Alexander Brown
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great WestNature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
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Under An Open SkyUnder An Open Sky by William Cronon
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The Mountain MenThe Mountain Men by George Laycock
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Little Big ManLittle Big Man by Thomas Berger
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Larry McMurtry calls Little Big Man the best novel ever written about the American West
Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West (Bison Book)Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West (Bison Book) by Dale L. Morgan
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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American WarriorsCrazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors by Stephen E. Ambrose
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An "Imaginative" history
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas FrontierThe Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier by Scott Zesch
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The Way WestThe Way West by A. B. Guthrie Jr.
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Second book in the Dick Summers series.
On the Border With CrookOn the Border With Crook by Time Life Editors
Cheyenne AutumnCheyenne Autumn by Mari Sandoz
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Story of the Cheyenne Exodus
Crazy Horse (second edition): The Strange Man of the Oglalas (50th Anniversary Edition)Crazy Horse (second edition): The Strange Man of the Oglalas (50th Anniversary Edition) by Mari Sandoz
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These Thousand HillsThese Thousand Hills by A. B. Guthrie Jr.
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Monte WalshMonte Walsh by Jack Schaefer
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The Englishman's Boy: A NovelThe Englishman's Boy: A Novel by Guy Vanderhaeghe
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