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Western Historical Fiction
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April 2005
Compiled by Donna Jo Atwood,
of Olathe (KS) Public Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
Western Fiction
Mostly 19th Century:
Allende, Isabelle. Daughter of Fortune.
Blakely, Mike. Shortgrass Song.
Blevins, Win. Stone Song.
Bristow, Gwen. Calico Palace
Capps, Benjamin. Woman Chief.
Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop.
Coldsmith, Don. Trail of the Spanish Bit. and rest of series.
Collins, Natalie R. Wives & Sisters.
Doig, Ivan. Dancing at the Rascal Fair.
Edgerton, Clyde. Redeye.
Fergus, Jim. 1000 White Women
Freeman, Judith. Red Water.
Galloway, David D. Tamsen.
Gilchrist, Micaela. The Good Journey.
Guthrie, A. B., Jr. The Big Sky.
Harrigan, Stephen. The Gates of the Alamo.
Henry, Will. The Gates of the Mountains.
Holloland, Cecelia. Railroad Schemes.
Houston, James D. Snow Mountain Passage.
Jackson, Helen Hunt. Ramona.
Johnston, Terry. C. Seize the Sky.
Jones, Douglas C. Season of Yellow Leaf.
Jones, Robert F. Deadville.
Maino, Jeanette Gould. Left Hand Turn. (Donner Party)
McCord, Christian. Across the Shining Mountains.
McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome Dove.
McMurtry, Larry. Berrybender Narratives, beginning with Sin Killer.
Michener, James. Centennial.
Michener, James. Texas.
Paine, Lauran. Cache Canon.
Parry, Richard. The Winter Wolf.
Recknor, Ellen. Prophet Annie.
Riefe, Barbara. Against All Odds.
Rolvaag, O. Giants in the Earth.
Ross, Dana Fuller. Wagon's West series, beginning with Independence
Smiley, Jane. The All True Travels and Adventures of Lydie Newton.
Stegner, Wallace. Angle of Repose.
Swarthout, Glendon. The Homesman.
Turner, Nancy. These Is My Words.
Wheeler, Richard S. Sierra.
20th Century:
Dallas, Sandra. Persian Pickle Club.
Enger, Leif. Peace Like a River.
Haruf, Kent. Eventide.
Haruf, Kent. Plainsong.
Maclean, Norman. A River Runs Through It.
Murkoff, Bruce. Waterborne.
Spragg, Mark. An Unfinished Life.
Stegner, Wallace. Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Udall, Brady. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint.
Wood, Jane Roberts. The Train to Estelline.
Western Romance:
Bonner, Cindy. Lily.
Brown, Carolyn. Promised Land" series (Willow)
DeBlasis, Celeste. The Tiger's Woman.
Garwood, Julie. One White Rose, One Red Rose, One Pink Rose, For the Roses
Miller, Linda Lael. Springwater" series (Savanna, Rachel, Jessica, Miranda)
Osborne, Maggie I Do, I Do, I Do; A Stranger's Wife; Silver Linings.
Wood, Barbara. Domina.
Reference Sources: Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Encyclopedia of Frontier Literature.
Estleman, Loren. The Wister Trace: Classic Novels of the American Frontier.
Three older (1980s) sources:
Etulain, Richard W. MThe American Literary West.
Tuska, Jon. Encyclopedia of Frontier and Western Fiction.
Twentieth Century Western Writers.
Web:
http://westernwriters.org/spur_awards.htm
http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/e_awar_winn.html
http://www.womenwritingthewest.org
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