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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost

By Rebecca Solnit ,

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A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - The Last Great Battle of the American West
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A Terrible Glory

By James Donovan ,

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The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley
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The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley

By Glenda Riley ,

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Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier
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Wolf Willow

By Wallace Stegner ,

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Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866
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Mollie

By Mollie Dorsey Sanford ,

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The Last Crossing
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The Last Crossing

By Guy Vanderhaeghe ,

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Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West
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Blood and Thunder

By Hampton Sides ,

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Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads
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Ghost Riders

By Richard Grant ,

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Hard Road West: History & Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail
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Hard Road West

By Keith Heyer Meldahl ,

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Twenty Thousands Roads: Women, Movement, and the West
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Twenty Thousands Roads

By Virginia Scharff ,

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William Clark and the Shaping of the West
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William Clark and the Shaping of the West

By Landon Y. Jones ,

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Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War And Wilderness
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Walking It Off

By Doug Peacock ,

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Print the Legend: Photography and the American West
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Print the Legend

By Martha A. Sandweiss ,

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Jewel
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Jewel

By Beverly Jenkins ,

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The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West
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The Buffalo Soldiers

By William H. Leckie , Shirley A. Leckie ,

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Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip Through the Land Art of the American West
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Spiral Jetta

By Erin Hogan ,

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B Is for Buckaroo: A Cowboy Alphabet
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B Is for Buckaroo

By Louise Doak Whitney , Gleaves Whitney , Susan Guy (illustrator)

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The Jump-Off Creek
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The Jump-Off Creek

By Molly Gloss ,

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African American Women of the Old West
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African American Women of the Old West

By Tricia Martineau Wagner ,

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The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard
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The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard

By Elmore Leonard ,

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The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
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The Anthropology of Turquoise

By Ellen Meloy ,

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Bones, Boats, & Bison: Archeology and the First Colonization of Western North America
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Bones, Boats, & Bison

By E. James Dixon ,

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Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West
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Staking Her Claim

By Marcia Hensley ,

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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
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Roaring Camp

By Susan Lee Johnson ,

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Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
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Fire and Brimstone

By Michael Punke ,

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A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of the American West
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A Newer World

By David Roberts ,

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Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey
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Adventures with Ed

By Jack Loeffler ,

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The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog
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The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog

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I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark
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I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company

By Brian Hall ,

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Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet
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Mass Destruction

By Timothy J. LeCain ,

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The Secret Knowledge of Water: There Are Two Easy Ways to Die in the Desert: Thirst and Drowning
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The Secret Knowledge of Water

By Craig Childs ,

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Augusta Locke
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Augusta Locke

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