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As the frontier was constantly moving as America spread west, these historical fiction titles cover pioneers and frontier life from a variety of locations and time periods.
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Caroline: Little House, Revisited
SARAH MILLER - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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In this novel authorized by Little House Heritage Trust, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before--Caroline... |
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Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry - Simon and Schuster
Format: Print book
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Set in the late 19th century, Lonesome Dove is an adventurous story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. The narrative centers around two friends: Augustus McCrae, a reluctant rancher who has a way with women, and W. F. Call, whose talent for leadership conceals a secret sorrow. For Gus,... |
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The Last Crossing: A Novel
Guy Vanderhaeghe - Atlantic Monthly Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A novel of ruggedness and salvation, an epic masterpiece set in a time when worlds collided, were destroyed, and were built anew A #1 best-seller in Canada and winner of the Canadian Booksellers Association’s Fiction Book of the Year Award, The Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of breathtaking... |
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Westering Women: A Novel
Sandra Dallas - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas' Westering Women is an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail"If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California... |
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The Children's Blizzard: A Novel
Melanie Benjamin - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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The morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following a punishing cold spell. It was warm enough for the homesteaders of the Dakota territory to venture out again, and for their children to return to school without their heavy coats--leaving them unprepared when disaster struck.... |
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Doc: A Novel
Mary Doria Russell - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The year is 1878, peak of the Texas cattle trade. The place is Dodge City, Kansas, a saloon-filled cow town jammed with liquored-up adolescent cowboys and young Irish hookers. Violence is random and routine, but when the burned body of a mixed-blood boy named Johnnie Sanders is discovered,... |
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Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America
Eliot Pattison - Counterpoint
Format: Paperback
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In a novel rich in historical detail, acclaimed author Eliot Pattison reconsiders the founding of America and explores how disenfranchised people of any age and place struggle to find justice, how conflicting cultures can be reconciled through compassion and tolerance, and ultimately how the natural... |
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The wedding dress : stories from the Dakota Plains
Carrie Young - University of Iowa Press
Format: Book
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These finely wrought stories unfold in the Dakotas during the struggling pioneer days and bone-dry landscape of the thirties as well as the verdant years that followed, where the nighttime plains are bathed by softly radiant harvest moons shining down from dazzling northern skies. Young's... |
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A Sudden Country: A Novel
Karen Fisher - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption.James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious Hudson's Bay Company trader, has renounced... |
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Wolves of Eden: A Novel
KEVIN MCCARTHY - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A saga of loyalty and survival in the vast, severe American West.Irish immigrant brothers Michael and Thomas O'Driscoll have returned from the brutal front lines of the Civil War. Unable to adapt to life as farm laborers, they reenlist in the army and are thrown into ferocious combat with... |
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Caleb's Crossing: A Novel
Geraldine Brooks - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith,... |
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Inland: A Novel
Téa Obreht - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife returns with "a bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West" (Entertainment Weekly) .In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona... |
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A Simple Murder: A Mystery
Eleanor Kuhns - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover
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Five years ago, while William Rees was still recovering from his stint as a Revolutionary War soldier, his beloved wife died. Devastated, Will Rees left his son, David, in his sister's care, fled his Maine farm, and struck out for a tough but emotionally empty life as a traveling weaver.... |
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Abercrombie Trail: A Novel of the 1862 Uprising
Candace Simar
Format: Book
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Candace Simar’s book, Abercrombie Trail, a fictionalized account of the Sioux Uprising of 1862, is inhabited by the 19th century settlers of west central Minnesota. It centers on the life of her fictional character Evan Jacobson, an immigrant Norwegian stage coach driver. The stops... |
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Sixteen Brides
Stephanie Grace Whitson - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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In Sixteen Brides by Christy Award finalist Stephanie Grace Whitson, Civil War widows living in St. Louis are lured west by promises of prime homesteads in a booming community. When the unsuspecting women arrive at Plum Grove, Nebraska, sparks fly as they meet bachelors convinced theyve... |
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Into the Wilderness
Sara Donati - Bantam Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Weaving a vibrant tapestry of fact and fiction, Into the Wilderness sweeps us into another time and place...and into the heart of a forbidden, incandescent affair between a spinster Englishwoman and an American frontiersman. Here is an epic of romance and history that will captivate readers... |
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An Ordinary Woman: A Dramatized Biography of Nancy Kelsey
Cecelia Holland - Forge
Format: Print book
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With her stunningly realistic and exhaustively researched novels, Cecelia Holland has earned unanimous acclaim as one of the finest historical novelists of our time. Her subjects range from the dawn of prehistory and the turbulent middle ages to the rough-and-tumble pioneer days of her own native... |
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To the Bright Edge of the World: A Novel
Eowyn Ivey - Little
Format: Print book
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An atmospheric, transporting tale of adventure, love, and survival from the bestselling author of The Snow Child, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition that has been deemed impossible:... |
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Sacajawea
Anna Lee Waldo - Avon
Format: Paperback
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Clad in a doeskin, alone and unafraid, she stood straight and proud before the onrushing forces of America's destiny: Sacajawea, child of a Shoshoni chief, lone woman on Lewis and Clark's historic trek -- beautiful spear of a dying nation.She knew many men, walked many miles. From... |
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