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- The Bandit of Hell's Bend
Edgar Rice Burroughsstandalone novel1925
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The Bandit of Hell's Bend is a Western fiction novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, published in serial form in the Argosy All-Story Weekly in September and October 1924. The book version was first published by A. C. McClurg on June 4, 1925.
- Buckskin Brigades
L. Ron Hubbardstandalone novel1937
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Buckskin Brigades is a Western novel written by L. Ron Hubbard, first published July 30, 1937. The work was Hubbard's first hard-covered book, and his first published novel. The next year he became a contributor to Astounding Science Fiction. Winfred Blevins wrote the introduction to the book. Some sources state that as a young man, Hubbard became a blood brother to the Piegan Blackfeet Native American tribe while living in Montana, though this claim is disputed. Hubbard incorporates historical background from the Blackfeet tribe into the book.
- The Wolf Is My Brother
Chad Oliverstandalone novel1967
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Western. Winner of the 1967 Golden Spur Award for Best Historical Novel.
- Breckinridge Elkins
series40 books1934
completed
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Robert E. Howard's Breckinridge Elkins stories follow a hulking, guileless mountain man from Bear Creek, Nevada, whose earnest attempts to help his neighbors and court a girl reliably spiral into brawls, wrecked towns, and outsized tall-tale violence. Written as comic pulp westerns rather than the grim adventure fiction Howard is best known for, the stories were originally serialized in magazines during the 1930s. They've since been repackaged across many overlapping anthology and omnibus editions.
- Cowboys & Aliens
Joan D. Vingestandalone novel2011
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First contact/alien invasion novel set in the old west.
- Territory
Emma Bullstandalone novel2007
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Territory is a fantasy western or Weird West novel by Emma Bull, published in 2007. It placed 4th in the 2008 Locus Poll Award for Best Fantasy Novel. It was also nominated for a World Fantasy Award in the Best Novel category.
- The Californios
Louis L'Amourstandalone novel1974
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A western with lost-race elements and mysticism.
- Drew Rennie
series2 books1961
completed
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Andre Norton's Drew Rennie duology — Ride Proud, Rebel! and Rebel Spurs — is a Civil War-era historical adventure for young readers, following a young soldier through the war's final campaigns and into the postwar West. The two novels form a linked story grounded in Civil War history rather than Norton's more familiar science fiction and fantasy.
- Guild
Ed Gormanstandalone novel1987
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A weary bounty hunter, looking to collect his reward, rides into the dusty Dakota town of Denton one evening. He doesn't plan to stay long, until an old buddy and a beautiful woman convince him to change his mind. But some folks don't like his presence in Denton. They don't like the questions he's asking and the insinuations he's making. And they'll do everything they can to make sure he leaves mighty quick, whether it's on the back of a horse or in a narrow pine box.
- Hell's Bounty
Joe R. Lansdale & John L. Lansdalestandalone novel2016
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Hell's Bounty is a horror novel written by American brothers Joe R. Lansdale and John L. Lansdale. It takes place in the old western town of Falling Rock. Bounty hunter Smith sets off a chain of events as he searches for one bad hombre Quill. He is blown to hell, literally, where he makes a deal with a bartender Snappy, who is really Satan. He will save Smith from the bowels of hell if he returns to Falling Rock and stops Quill who has made a deal with the "Old Ones" who are so evil even Satan can't abide. Smith teams up with a whip snapping redhead whore named Payday, a legless man called Undertaker, and a whisky drinking doctor to stop Quill who has turned into a winged demon and has turned the people of the town into ghouls to try to stop Smith and his band from ruining his plans.
- Fevre Dream
George R. R. Martinstandalone novel1982
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Fevre Dream is a 1982 vampire novel written by American author George R. R. Martin. It is set on the antebellum Mississippi River, beginning in 1857, and has been described by critics and Martin himself as "Bram Stoker meets Mark Twain". About writing the novel, Martin said that "It was strongly influenced by the time I spent in Dubuque, Iowa, where river steamboats were once built".
- The Magic Wagon
Joe R. Lansdalestandalone novel1986
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- The Root Cellar
Janet Lunnstandalone novel1981
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The Root Cellar is a children's historical novel by Janet Lunn that is set in the 1980s, although much of the action takes place in the 1860s. It follows Rose Larkin, an orphan, who travels temporally back and forth between Ontario, Canada, of the 1980s and various settings of U.S. Civil War in the 1860s. This time travel is done through the root cellar of the title.
- Frontier Reporter
Manly Wade Wellmanstandalone novel1969
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Publisher's description: "A nineteen-year-old from North Carolina expects to make his fortune in southwest Kansas as a reporter for a small town paper."
- Bring the Jubilee
Ward Moorestandalone novel1953
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From the flaps of the Farrar, Straus and Young first edition: ""Although I am writing this in the year 1877, I was not born until 1921." So Hodge Backmaker begins his story of the harsh and curious world he lived in, a world in which the South won the Civil War and the all-powerful Confederacy dominated the poor and backward North; a North that had neither a transcontinental railroad, and where television was undreamed of. Like most Northerners, Hodge was poor - but he had ambition. A printer's handyman in 1938, he had since become an eminent historian. Hodge's special interest was the American past, when the States had been united and had seemed to be on the brink of prosperity and technical progress. And then he was offered an opportunity no historian could resist - he could go back in time. Hodge chsoe to return to a certain field near Gettysburg on a day in July, 1863... Bring the Jubilee is a novel of curious events, of adventures and reflection, of passions and comment. It at time Hodge's world, its horse-carriages and gas-lights, minibles and tinugraphs and the Great Emperors' War of 1914 faintly resembles our own, it is perhaps, because that world might well become a reality: on the battlefield of Gettysburg there is a small hill called Little Round Top. One July morning in 1863 the Confederate Army made the tactical error of not occupying this hill. It was a mistake that cost them victory in a battle which - in the view of many historians - was the turning point of the Civil War."
- The Boundless
Kenneth Oppelstandalone novel2014
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Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.
