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  • Lynn Downey The best books about the women of the American West Book cover of Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane Book cover of Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest Book cover of Twenty Thousands Roads: Women, Movement, and the West Book cover of Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West Book cover of Levi's & Lace: Arizona Women Who Made History
  • Emily Hayse The best books that capture the poignant beauty of the American West Book cover of San Domingo: The Medicine Hat Stallion Book cover of Conagher Book cover of Where the Lost Wander Book cover of Moccasin Trail Book cover of Land of Hills and Valleys
  • Laurie Marr Wasmund The best books about why the ever-evolving American West was, is, and always will be the “Wild West” Book cover of Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre Book cover of Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad Book cover of Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 Book cover of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water Book cover of Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album
  • Guy McPherson The best books about the beauty and power of the American West Book cover of Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War And Wilderness Book cover of Desert Solitaire Book cover of The Journey Home: Some Words in the Defense of the American West Book cover of Angle of Repose Book cover of The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography
  • Chris Hannan The best books about the American West with female central characters Book cover of O Pioneers! Book cover of Little House on the Prairie Book cover of Close Range: Wyoming Stories Book cover of Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866 Book cover of Searching for Calamity: The Life and Times of Calamity Jane
  • Sarah Deutsch The best books for reimagining our mythic American West and its cast Book cover of I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land Book cover of Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush Book cover of Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America Book cover of Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Book cover of The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival
  • Craig Lancaster The best books featuring characters navigating the contemporary American West Book cover of A Bloom Of Bones Book cover of One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large Book cover of Crazy Mountain Book cover of True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America Book cover of Let the Wild Grasses Grow
  • Jim Rasenberger The best classic history books on American western migration before the Civil War Book cover of The Great Plains Book cover of The Year of Decision 1846 Book cover of The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 Book cover of The Oregon Trail Book cover of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
  • Larry E. Morris The best books on Lewis and Clark, their lives, and the impact of their expedition Book cover of The Character of Meriwether Lewis: Explorer in the Wilderness Book cover of William Clark and the Shaping of the West Book cover of The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery Book cover of In Search of York: The Slave Who Went to the Pacific with Lewis and Clark Book cover of Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
  • Arthur G. Sylvester The best books about exploration of, and water resources in, the American West Book cover of Men to Match My Mountains: The Monumental Saga of the Winning of America's Far West Book cover of Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West Book cover of The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon Book cover of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water Book cover of Salt to Summit: A Vagabond Journey from Death Valley to Mount Whitney
  • Rick Jervis The best books to take readers on a journey to unknown lands Book cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder Book cover of Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West Book cover of Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History Book cover of Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause Book cover of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
  • Peter Cozzens The best books to understand the reality of the American Indian Wars Book cover of Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History Book cover of A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - The Last Great Battle of the American West Book cover of Autumn of the Black Snake: George Washington, Mad Anthony Wayne, and the Invasion That Opened the West Book cover of On the Border with Crook Book cover of The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull
  • Mary Stockwell The best books on the history of the American West Book cover of The European Discovery of America: Volume 1: The Northern Voyages A.D. 500-1600 Book cover of Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier Book cover of The Frontiersmen Book cover of The Patriot Chiefs: A Chronicle of American Indian Resistance Book cover of The Grapes of Wrath
  • Rachel Kovaciny The best books about women in the wild west Book cover of Letters of a Woman Homesteader Book cover of African American Women of the Old West Book cover of Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West Book cover of The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West Book cover of Westward the Women
  • David Fitz-Gerald The best frontier and pioneer fiction for the ages Book cover of Lonesome Dove Book cover of Heck's Journey Book cover of Little House on the Prairie Book cover of Sacajawea Book cover of Where the Lost Wander
  • Sarah Bird The best books about the Buffalo Soldiers Book cover of The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West Book cover of New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers: 1866-1900 Book cover of The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877 Book cover of Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay: The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars Book cover of The Wolf and the Buffalo
  • Tore C. Olsson The best books on the Wild West that turn the myths upside down Book cover of Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and The Wild West Show Book cover of The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West Book cover of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Book cover of No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society Book cover of Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
  • Jan Mackell Collins The best books about historical prostitution Book cover of Tacey Cromwell Book cover of Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-90 Book cover of The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918 Book cover of Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West Book cover of The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West
  • Kim Taylor Blakemore The best novels about fierce women in the American West Book cover of The Diary of Mattie Spenser Book cover of True Grit Book cover of The Comanche Kid Book cover of The Outlander Book cover of Buffalo Calf Road Woman: The Story Of A Warrior Of The Little Bighorn
  • Kirby Larson The best books on Montana during WWI Book cover of Bad Land: An American Romance Book cover of Homesteading: A Montana Family Album Book cover of Photographing Montana 1894-1928: The Life and Work of Evelyn Cameron Book cover of When You & I Were Young, Whitefish Book cover of Traveler's Companion to Montana History
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