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1	Desert Solitaire more books like this by Abbey add to wishlist "A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEW Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	My Ántonia more books like this by Willa Cather add to wishlist This novel about the friendship between two Nebraska children, Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda is considered Cather's masterpiece. The fortunes of the two families are opposed: the Burdens thrive while the Shimerdas decline, a downfall that culminates in the suicide of Antonia's father, which forces the girl to work in the fields and then as a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Time to Hunt more books like this by Stephen Hunter add to wishlist Vietnam veteran Bob Lee Swagger, known as "Bob the Nailer" for his sharpshooting skills, can't forget the day when his young partner was struck down by a bullet he always thought was meant for him. Even after moving to Idaho and raising a family with the young boy's widow, Bob can't help but look over his shoulder. When an old enemy finally ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors more books like this by Professor Stephen E Ambrose add to wishlist A biographical study of the U.S. Cavalry general and the Sioux chief who met in battle at Little Bighorn, Montana, on June 25, 1876. Stephen Ambrose is the author of many highly acclaimed works of history, among them "D-Day, June 6, 1944" and "Undaunted Courage: Meriweather Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West". see all copies from $2.36! new only from $7.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Honk and Holler Opening Soon more books like this by Billie Letts add to wishlist A paraplegic Vietnam vet runs a diner in Oklahoma. The waitress is an African-American widow with a troublesome teenage daughter. The cook is a Vietnamese immigrant who gets into a fight to the death with a local bigot. And a Native-American woman with a wounded dog shows up. This quartet manages to find happiness, and the Honk & Holler Café is at ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Dakota: A Spiritual Geography more books like this by Kathleen Norris add to wishlist Norris writes about the dynamics of small-town life in this tribute to the Great Plains and their power to inform the human spirit. Filled with descriptions of a harsh and desolate, yet sublime landscape, "Dakota" weaves together the lives of farmers, townsfolk, Native Americans, and a community of Benedictine monks. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Little House on the Prairie more books like this by Laura Ingalls Wilder add to wishlist The Ingalls family moves from Wisconsin to Kansas, where they build a log cabin and start up a small farm. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Lonesome Dove more books like this by Larry McMurtry add to wishlist Two former Texas Rangers, Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae, drive cattle from Texas to Montana with a crew of oddballs, misfits, and true heroes. With its roots firmly sunk in classic trail-drive lore, this novel nevertheless transcends the Western genre. Commenting on the book's phenomenal success, McMurtry said, "LONESOME DOVE was a critical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	They Shoot Canoes, Don't They? more books like this by Patrick F McManus add to wishlist McManus celebrates the hidden pleasures, unappreciated lore, and opportunities for disaster to be found in such outdoor recreations as camping, hunting, and fishing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.84! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Lakota Woman Tie in more books like this by Mary Crow Dog, Mary Brave Bird, Mary Crow Dog add to wishlist In this autobiography, Mary Crow Dog, a Lakota Sioux, tells of her youth, when her heritage was discouraged by her mother, and of her later education into Indian ways under the tutelage of Leonard Crow Dog, a Sioux medicine man. Active in the Indian civil rights movement, Mary Crow Dog was at the Wounded Knee incident, and her autobiography ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	In Cold Blood more books like this by Truman Capote add to wishlist Truman Capote's masterpiece, IN COLD BLOOD, a sterling early example of the New Journalism, was part of an evolving genre that filtered events both big and small through the writer's own experiences and feelings. IN COLD BLOOD is the intensely researched story of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and the two men who brutally murdered them on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Children's Blizzard more books like this by David Laskin add to wishlist Drawing on family interviews and memoirs, as well as hundreds of contemporary accounts, here is a meticulous account of the blizzard of January 12, 1888, which killed some 500 settlers in Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota--many of them children lost on their way home from school. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	True Confessions more books like this by Rachel Gibson add to wishlist L.A.-based tabloid reporter Hope Spencer arrives in Gospel, Idaho, hoping for inspiration, but discovers truth is stranger than fiction--even tabloid fiction--in the small town. Then there is local sheriff Dylan Taber. He's no made-up character from one of her stories--Dylan is all too real, and soon Hope faces the awful truth she's been without a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Giants in the earth : a saga of the prairie more books like this by Ole Edvart Rolvaag add to wishlist The classic story of a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.12! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Way to Rainy Mountain more books like this by Natachee Scott Momaday add to wishlist A compilation of stories, vignettes, and poems that describe the author's spiritual and intellectual voyage as he retraces a 300-year journey made by his ancestors from Montana to New Mexico. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	English Creek more books like this by Ivan Doig add to wishlist This first novel of Doig's three-part saga of life in Montana's Two Medicine country is about the important summer of 1939 in the life of 14-year-old Jick McCaskill. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.84! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	O Pioneers more books like this by Willa Cather add to wishlist Willa Cather's O PIONEERS!, first published in 1913, tells the story of Alexandra Bergson, the daughter of a Swedish pioneering family, who successfully takes over the management of the family farm upon her father's death. The story encompasses Alexandra's difficult relationships with her brothers, Oscar and Lou, her love for a neighbor, Carl ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Rising from the Plains more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist Bestselling author McPhee takes us on another exciting geological excursion with this engaging account of life--past and present--in the high plains of Wyoming. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Journal of a Trapper more books like this by Osborne Russell, Aubrey L Haines (Editor) add to wishlist 'Reader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this 'volume' down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has seen and experienced. But if you wish to peruse a Hunter's rambles among the wild regions of the Rocky Mountains, please to read this and forgive the authors foibles and imperfections, ... see all copies from $2.01! new only from $7.20! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Fit for a King more books like this by Diana Palmer add to wishlist Sweet, innocent Elissa Dean would do just about anything for her neighbor and friend Kingston Roper. She's even agreed to help him fend off an unwanted admirer by pretending to be his lover. But the more she pretends, the more she begins to realize that her affection is more than just make-believe. Will Elissa ever be able to win King over? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.98! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl more books like this by Timothy Egan add to wishlist Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains during the Depression, going from sod huts to new framed houses to basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out. see all copies from $5.45! new only from $7.14! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Paradise more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist Toni Morrison writes about a group of African Americans who found a community in Oklahoma called Ruby. When the outside world threatens the peace of the community, five women whose lives are particularly troubled take refuge in an abandoned convent, which alienates the men of the town. In this novel, which pits men against women and presents women ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	It Must Be Love more books like this by Rachel Gibson add to wishlist Undercover cop Joe Shanahan's bad luck hits bottom the morning he sees sexy suspect Gabrielle Breedlove. She'd blown his cover and now his new assignment is to pose as her boyfriend. Spending all his time with this free-spirited beauty causes unexpected complications. She's all wrong for him, but she feels so right to him. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.53! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw more books like this by Patrick F McManus add to wishlist America's celebrated humorist takes a plunge into metaphysics, convinced he can hold his own with history's mythmakers! McManus provides a hilarious and unforgettable experience as he satirizes history, popular legends . . . and life itself! see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Tomboy bride. more books like this by Harriet Fish Backus add to wishlist The popular autobiographical account of a pioneer woman's amusing and often difficult experiences in and around the Tomboy Mine above Telluride, the copper mines of British Columbia, the remote regions of Idaho, and finally Leadville. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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