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39 past books matching Western
A strong match for readers who like Western literary horror, isolated settings, and supernatural threats.
In the Valley of the Sun
Horror · Supernatural Horror · Western
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A finalist for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel, In the Valley of the Sun follows Travis Stillwell, a West Texas cowboy who develops a monstrous hunger after meeting a mysterious girl. While he hides at Annabelle Gaskin's motel, a Texas Ranger pursues him for his past misdeeds. A strong match for readers who like Western literary horror, isolated settings, and supernatural threats.
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A finalist for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.
Deftly written and utterly addictive, this Western literary horror debut will find a home with fans of authors like Joe Hill, Cormac McCarthy, and Anne Rice.
One night in 1980, a man becomes a monster.
Haunted by his past, Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in West Texas honky-tonks. What he does with them doesn’t make him proud, just quiets the demons for a little while. But after Travis crosses paths one night with a mysterious pale-skinned girl, he wakes weak and bloodied in his cabover camper the next morning—with no sign of a girl, no memory of the night before.
Annabelle Gaskin spies the camper parked behind her motel and offers the cowboy a few odd jobs to pay his board. Travis takes her up on the offer, if only to buy time, to lay low and heal. By day, he mends the old motel, insinuating himself into the lives of Annabelle and her ten-year-old son. By night, in the cave of his camper, he fights an unspeakable hunger. Before long, Annabelle and her boy come to realize that this strange cowboy is not what he seems.
Half a state away, a grizzled Texas Ranger is hunting Travis for his past misdeeds, but what he finds will lead him to a revelation far more monstrous. A man of the law, he’ll have to decide how far into the darkness he’ll go for the sake of justice.
When these lives converge on a dusty autumn night, an old evil will find new life—and new blood.
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A strong match for readers who enjoy modern Western crime thrillers, small-town mysteries, and lone-wolf justice.
Cast A Long Shadow
Mystery · Thriller · Western
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When former rodeo star Bobby Trent's father, the sheriff of Lodge Pole County, is murdered, Bobby trades his saddle for a badge and joins his Cheyenne blood brother, Lucas Black Kettle, to find the killer. Their investigation leads to heroin trafficking, cartel hitmen, and rumors of his father's corruption. A strong match for readers who enjoy modern Western crime thrillers, small-town mysteries, and lone-wolf justice.
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A former rodeo star turned reluctant sheriff hunts his father’s killers and collides with the cartel in this modern western crime thriller packed with small town grit, lone-wolf justice, and the heavy burden of a family legacy.
He’ll earn his name one bullet at a time
Star high school athlete and pro-rodeo circuit rider “Bad Bobby” Trent lives an unencumbered life. His concentration lasts no more than eight seconds—the time required to ride a bull and win.
But when his father, the legendary sheriff of Lodge Pole County, is gunned down in a roadside ambush, he abandons his saddle for the badge. The only problem? He doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing.
Joining forces with his Cheyenne blood brother, Lucas Black Kettle, to find the killer, he’s quickly thrust into a hornet’s nest of deadly heroin and cartel hitmen.
As the investigation puts a target on his back, sordid rumours suggest that the former sheriff was dirty, paid off by unknown forces. Bobby will risk everything to defend his father’s name, even if it sends him to an early grave…
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A strong match for readers drawn to bleak historical fiction, family tragedy, and stories of revenge.
The Kept
Historical Fiction · Historical Thriller · Western
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Called “Dark and mysterious” by The New York Times, The Kept follows midwife Elspeth Howell and her twelve-year-old son Caleb after killers murder her husband and four children on their isolated upstate New York farm in 1897. After Caleb nurses his wounded mother back to health, the two venture into the frozen wilderness to find the men responsible. A strong match for readers drawn to bleak historical fiction, family tragedy, and stories of revenge.
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“Dark and mysterious. . . . A novel whose daring is found in its bleakness. . . . The plot unfolds with a weighty languor reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy. . . sparse, elegant. . . haunting.” — New York Times
Set in rural New York state at the turn of the twentieth century, superb new talent James Scott makes his literary debut with The Kept—a propulsive novel reminiscent of the works of Michael Ondaatje, Cormac McCarthy, and Bonnie Jo Campbell, in which a mother and her young son embark on a quest to avenge a terrible and violent tragedy that has shattered their secluded family.
In the winter of 1897, a trio of killers descends upon an isolated farm in upstate New York. Midwife Elspeth Howell returns home to the carnage: her husband, and four of her children, murdered. Before she can discover her remaining son Caleb, alive and hiding in the kitchen pantry, another shot rings out over the snow-covered valley. Twelve-year-old Caleb must tend to his mother until she recovers enough for them to take to the frozen wilderness in search of the men responsible.
A scorching portrait of a merciless world—of guilt and lost innocence, atonement and retribution, resilience and sacrifice, pregnant obsession and primal adolescence—The Kept introduces an old-beyond-his-years protagonist as indelible and heartbreaking as Mattie Ross of True Grit or Jimmy Blevins of All the Pretty Horses, as well as a shape-shifting mother as enigmatic and mysterious as a character drawn by Russell Banks or Marilynne Robinson.
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A strong fit for readers who enjoy historical mysteries with rural settings, escalating crime, and independent cowboy lawmen.
South California Purples
Mystery · Historical Mystery · Western
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Called a “fast-moving series launch” by Publishers Weekly, this 2018 Killer Nashville Readers’ Choice Award winner follows Ty Dawson, a Korean War veteran running his family's Oregon cattle ranch in 1973. When mysterious cattle deaths lead to murder, protests over a planned wild horse slaughter and a violent biker gang complicate matters, and Ty is appointed undersheriff. A strong fit for readers who enjoy historical mysteries with rural settings, escalating crime, and independent cowboy lawmen.
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"The novel combines the mystery and honesty of Craig Johnson's Longmire with the first-person narration of a fiercely independent Oregon character." —Sheila Deeth, author of John's Joy
Winner of the 2018 Killer Nashville Readers' Choice Award
2017 Foreword Indies Finalist for Historical
A Korean War veteran, Ty Dawson finds refuge running his family's cattle ranch, the Diamond D, one of the largest in Oregon—and there's no place he'd rather be. But in 1973, the country falls into turmoil with the last soldiers returning from Vietnam, the stand-off at Wounded Knee, and the ongoing Watergate scandal. And it isn't long before Ty finds his own peace and quiet shattered by outside forces.
A string of mysterious cattle deaths leads to the murder of a cowhand, but that's just the beginning. News leaks that the Bureau of Land Management plans on a wild horse slaughter, which brings protestors and news cameras to the area, not to mention a violent biker gang known as the Charlatans. Overwhelmed, the sheriff appoints Ty as undersheriff. And as events spiral out of control, Ty must take matters into his own hands to protect his family, his land, and his way of life . . .
"A masterful work of a time gone by. Birtcher possesses a rare skill that is the envy of many a writer. He deftly employs literary prose to reveal the life of a hard-driven man. Ty Dawson is a cowboy, lawman, father and philosopher like none other." —Neal Griffin, Los Angeles Times–bestselling author of The Burden of Proof
"[A] fast-moving series launch . . . Birtcher takes readers on an exciting ride." —Publishers Weekly
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A strong match for readers who enjoy historical Western fiction with frontier adventures, complex characters, and intersecting stories of love, loss, and revenge.
The Last Crossing
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · Western
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An award-winning bestseller called “A feast of a book” by Annie Proulx in The Globe and Mail, The Last Crossing follows English brothers Charles and Addington Gaunt as they search for their missing missionary brother in the late nineteenth-century American West. Guided by Jerry Potts, their expedition grows to include a journalist, a saloonkeeper, a Civil War veteran, and a young woman seeking revenge. A strong match for readers who enjoy historical Western fiction with frontier adventures, complex characters, and intersecting stories of love, loss, and revenge.
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Journey from Victorian England to the whiskey trading posts of the Old West in this epic award-winning bestseller from the author of The Englishman's Boy.
In the late nineteenth century, Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt are sent by their father to find their brother Simon, a missionary who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. In the outreaches of the Montana frontier, the brothers hire a guide—a half Blackfoot, half Scot named Jerry Potts—to lead them further north into the area where Simon was last seen. As the party heads out, it grows to include a journalist, a saloonkeeper, a Civil War veteran in search of love, and a young woman bent on revenge.
There's no telling what awaits them . . .
"One of North America's best writers . . . A feast of a book." —Annie Proulx, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
"Stuffed with enough goodies to keep us entertained for days." —The New York Times Book Review
"Quest and revenge, love and loss converge before the novel's satisfying final twist." —The Boston Globe
"The quality of its plotting, vivid characterizations and descriptions and dark humor place it firmly in the company of the likes of Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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A strong match for readers drawn to Western adventure, wilderness survival, frontier friendship, and historical action.
To the River’s End
Historical Fiction · Western
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Set on the American frontier in 1833, To the River's End follows young fur trapper Luke Ransom as he heads into the Pacific Northwest with veteran mountain man Jug Sartain, where a dangerous trapping season becomes a fight to protect an escaped captive, with a 4.3-star average from more than 2,800 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers drawn to Western adventure, wilderness survival, frontier friendship, and historical action.
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An epic saga based on true events of the American West—with the trailblazing fur trappers and the mountain men who lived it. This is an unforgettable journey into the untamed American frontier. Where nature is cruel, violence lurks behind every tree, and where only the strongest of the strong survive. This is a story of America.
TO THE RIVER’S END
Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one-hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River—the longest in North America—all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships: grueling weather, wild animals, hunger, exhaustion, and hostile attacks by the Blackfeet and Arikara. Luke Ransom was one of the brave men chosen for the job—and one of the few to survive . . .
Five years later, Luke is a seasoned trapper and hunter, a master of his trade. The year is 1833, and the American Fur Company is sending him to the now-famous Rendezvous at Green River. For Luke, it may be his last job for the company. After facing death countless times, he is ready to strike out on his own. But when he encounters a fellow trapper under attack by Indians, his life takes an unexpected turn. A new friendship is forged in blood. And a dangerous new journey begins…
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Good for readers who like classic Westerns, ranch disputes, and hard standoffs.
Radigan
Historical Fiction · Western
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When Angelina Foley arrives with a Spanish grant and claims ownership of Tom Radigan’s ranch, he knows she will not leave without a fight. With winter closing in, three thousand cattle behind her, and gunfighters at her side, Foley wants him gone. Radigan has spent four years building his land, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 2,800 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like classic Westerns, ranch disputes, and hard standoffs.
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When beautiful Angelina Foley presents Tom Radigan with a Spanish grant and claims ownership of his land, he realizes he’s up against a cunning and deadly opportunist. Foley wants him off Vache Creek immediately, and with three thousand head of cattle, an outfit of hardcase gunfighters, and winter coming on, she is unwilling to take no for an answer.
But Radigan has worked four hard years building up his ranch. Fighting for it—and, if he has to, killing for it—is something he is more than willing to do. If Angelina Foley and her men think he is the kind of man to give up without a fight, they are dead wrong.
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Debt and desperation drive two broken people into a landscape where survival and destruction begin to look dangerously alike.
Savage Country
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · Western
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Debt and desperation drive two broken people into a landscape where survival and destruction begin to look dangerously alike. In Savage Country, a Civil War veteran and his widowed sister-in-law cross into Indian Territory on a brutal buffalo hunt, chasing economic rescue through a violent frontier that tests their bodies, their conscience, and whatever remains of their hope.
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"The year was 1873 and all about was the evidence of boom and bust, shattered dreams, foolish ambition, depredation, shame, greed, and cruelty . . ."
Onto this broken Western stage rides Michael Coughlin, a Civil War veteran with an enigmatic past, come to town to settle his dead brother's debt. Together with his widowed sister-in-law, Elizabeth, bankrupted by her husband's folly and death, they embark on a massive, and hugely dangerous, buffalo hunt. Elizabeth hopes to salvage something of her former life and the lives of the hired men and their families who now depend on her; the buffalo hunt that her husband had planned, she now realizes, was his last hope for saving the land.
Elizabeth and Michael plunge south across the aptly named "dead line" demarcating Indian Territory from their home state of Kansas. Nothing could have prepared them for the dangers: rattlesnakes, rabies, wildfire, lightning strikes, blue northers, flash floods—and human treachery. With the Comanche in winter quarters, Elizabeth and Michael are on borrowed time, and the cruel work of harvesting the buffalo is unraveling their souls.
Bracing, direct, and quintessentially American, Olmstead's gripping narrative follows that infamous hunt, which drove the buffalo to near extinction. Savage Country is the story of a moment in our history in which mass destruction of an animal population was seen as a road to economic salvation. But it's also the intimate story of how that hunt changed Michael and Elizabeth forever.
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When the land stops giving, survival becomes a test of pride, endurance, and what a family can bear without breaking.
The Time It Never Rained
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · Western
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When the land stops giving, survival becomes a test of pride, endurance, and what a family can bear without breaking. In The Time It Never Rained, Charlie Flagg faces the relentless drought crushing 1950s West Texas, refusing outside aid even as the cost of holding on grows steeper. It reads as a stark, character-driven western about resilience, stubbornness, and life shaped by an unforgiving landscape.
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Winner of the Spur and Western Heritage Award for Best Western Novel. "One of the dozen or so best novels written by an American in this century." —Jon Tuska, editor of The American West in Fiction
"The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance." —Elmer Kelton, Seven-time Spur Award–winning author
Rio Seco was too small to afford a professional manager for its one-room Chamber of Commerce.
And Rio Seco, meaning "dry river" in Spanish, symbolizes the biggest enemy of the ranchers and farmers in 1950s Texas, an enemy they can't control: drought. To cranky Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a battle that he must fight on his own grounds. Refusing the questionable "assistance" of federal aid programs and their bureaucratic regulations, Charlie and his family struggle to make the ranch survive until the time it rains again—if it ever rains again.
Charlie Flagg, among the strongest of Elmer Kelton's memorable creations, is no pasteboard hero. He is courageous and self-sufficient but as real as his harsh and unforgiving West Texas home country. His battle with an unfathomable foe is the stuff of epics and legends.
"Elmer Kelton does not write Westerns. He writes fine novels set in the West. Here a reader meets flesh-and-blood people of an earlier time, in a story that will grab and hold you from the first to the last page." —Dee Brown, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
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A young girl loses her family and faces a frontier that offers no mercy.
The Blood of My Mother
Historical Fiction · Western · Women's Fiction
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A young girl loses her family and faces a frontier that offers no mercy. After surviving enslavement and unimaginable hardship in early Texas, Eliza escapes and fights to build a farm, a family, and a fragile community of fellow outcasts. Her struggle for land and dignity unfolds in this sweeping historical saga shaped by endurance, violence, and hard-won hope.
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"Lonesome Dove meets Where the Crawdads Sing" in this "gripping saga about a perilous time in our nation's history and a woman who survived it against all odds" (Patricia Wood, author of Lottery, shortlisted for the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction).
"I could not stop reading." —Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times–bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean, the inaugural choice of Oprah's Book Club
After the deaths of her white father and mixed-race mother, young Eliza is left with neither home nor family in the newly forming frontier of Texas.
After enduring unimaginable cruelty as a slave, Eliza escapes, marries, becomes a mother, and realizes her dream of having a small farm. But she must fight—and kill—to keep it. And survival means welcoming others who have been shunned or forgotten by society into her world. Living and laboring together, will these outcasts find the strength and community they need to survive and flourish?
Acclaimed author Roccie Hill, inspired by the story of her great-great grandmother, now presents an unforgettable, deeply research, and wildly popular historical saga of a woman and a place, each growing and enduring under multiple flags through the sorrows and turbulence of history.
WILLA Literary Award Winner for Historical Fiction
"A saga with many layers . . . [A] riveting, addictive journey." —Joanne Hardy, author of The Girl in the Butternut Dress
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The Wrong Ride Home opens with a return fueled by anger, grief, and unfinished history.
The Wrong Ride Home
Western · Romance
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The Wrong Ride Home opens with a return fueled by anger, grief, and unfinished history. When Duke Wilder comes back to the Colorado ranch he meant to leave behind, old wounds resurface alongside the woman he never stopped loving. Torn between revenge and belonging, he must confront the cost of past choices and the trust he broke. This is a contemporary cowboy romance shaped by second chances, lingering desire, and emotional reckoning.
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She’s my first love. She’s also my father’s mistress’s daughter.
I’m Duke Wilder, and this is my story.
I left Wildflower Canyon and Wilder Ranch ten years ago away from my father and Elena—the girl I loved before I found out she was the daughter of my father’s mistress.
Now my father is gone, and he’s left the ranch to me. I come back ready to sell it off piece by piece, to destroy his so-called legacy, and finally get revenge on the land that failed my mother.
But coming back to the Colorado ranch country feels like stepping into a part of myself I’ve tried to forget. The wide-open skies, the mountains, the horses—it’s all still in my blood. And so is Elena, no matter that I’ve brought my girlfriend with me.
Elena never left the ranch. Even after her mother passed, she stayed, caring for my father until the end. They call her the horse whisperer, and it’s easy to see why. She’s incredible at what she does.
I should hate her. But I can’t. The fire we had all those years ago never died. Being near her feels like standing too close to the sun—and it burns just the way I like it.
I try to fight how I feel for her, but I give up when I realize that I want more than revenge. I want Elena. I want the ranch. But after everything that’s happened, she doesn’t trust me. Maybe she never will.
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Snowbound in a Texas town called Christmas Creek, a haunted drifter finds himself protecting a widowed shopkeeper and her son from a violent gang.
The Edge of Nowhere
Historical Fiction · Western
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Snowbound in a Texas town called Christmas Creek, a haunted drifter finds himself protecting a widowed shopkeeper and her son from a violent gang. As a brutal winter storm closes in, vengeance and mercy collide in The Edge of Nowhere, a tense Western where survival depends on standing your ground. Rated 4.4 stars on Amazon and 4.3 on Goodreads.
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Nationally bestselling western authors William W. and J.A. Johnstone reunite no there’s nothing like a Christmas showdown in Texas.
Johnstone Country. Where Miracles Need Bullets.
In this bold, new Western from the bestselling Johnstones, a lonely drifter finds himself snowbound with a lovely widow, her young son—and a gang of trigger-happy thieves . . .
DON’T OPEN FIRE UNTIL CHRISTMAS
Patrick Foley is a haunted man. After losing his family in a brutal Commanche raid, he drifts from town to town seeking justice and revenge. His mission—to track down the killers—has hardened his heart against all men, good or bad. But his icy resolve begins to melt when he arrives in the small Texas town of Christmas Creek—along with a massive winter storm that traps him there with a good woman, her little boy, and some very bad men . . .
Texans call it a Blue Norther. A fast-moving onslaught of heavy sleet and snow, it brings Foley’s search to a halt, but also gives him a chance to warm up with the charming young widow who runs the general store. Her name is Lovejoy Peace. She has a friendly smile, a six-year-old son—and a terrible problem with mean-spirited cowboys stealing supplies from her store. Being a gentleman, Foley raises his gun to defend the widow and stop the thieving snakes. But the battle is far from over . . .
The storm is getting worse. The cowboy gang is snowbound, too—and they’re ready for a rematch. If Foley, the widow and her son can survive the night, it’ll be a Christmas miracle . . .
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