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The Blue Hotel
Stephen Crane
4 days •
ⓘ 1898 • During a blizzard, three visitors take shelter in a hotel in Nebraska. Events soon take a violent and dark turn, however.
Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey
40 days •
ⓘ 1912 • Often called one of the most popular western novels of all time and even the work that most shaped the entire genre. Jane Withersteen alongside gunslingers and friends, struggles against evil members of her Mormon church.
The Virginian
Owen Wister
48 days •
ⓘ 1902 • Into the harsh world of the unruled American West rides the solitary Virginian whose iron will is put to the test against love, betrayal, and life in the Wyoming territory.
Cabin Fever
B.M. Bower
21 days •
ⓘ 1918 • "If you would test the soul of a friend, take him into the wilderness and rub elbows with him for five months!"
Roughing It
Mark Twain
57 days •
ⓘ 1872 • A semi-autobiographical account of Twain's travels and adventures through the American west during the 1860s.
The Girl from Montana
Grace Livingston Hill
22 days •
ⓘ 1907 • Elizabeth, fleeing the threats of a hateful man in Montana, sets out on her own to the unknown East.
The Mysterious Rider
Zane Grey
34 days •
ⓘ 1920 • Columbine is unhappily destined to marry a drunk brute, despite her love for another man. Into this mess enters a mysterious gunslinger.
Gunman's Reckoning
Max Brand
28 days •
ⓘ 1921 • In this classic Western, a gunman with a dark past arrives in gold-mining town The Corner.
The Pathfinder
James Fenimore Cooper
59 days •
ⓘ 1840 • One of Cooper's most picturesque novels, set on the Great Lakes, it finds Natty Bumppo finding his way through adventure and love.
The Pioneers
James Fenimore Cooper
55 days •
ⓘ 1823 • On the borders of the ever-advancing frontier of New York state, elements of the wild old world clash with new European-style developments.
The Mark of Zorro
Johnston McCulley
22 days •
ⓘ 1919 • Hidden behind a mask, a deadly swordsman rides the highways of old California dealing justice to a corrupt governor and his army.
Tombstone
Walter Noble Burns
36 days •
ⓘ 1927 • With a dash of fact and fiction, ride through the history of Western boomtown Tombstone, its infamous characters, and the famous showdown at the O.K. Corral.
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