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What are some good books set in the American Frontier?

>> No.12688394

>>12688375
Anything by Willa Cather. Not exactly what you're looking for but check out Fathers and Crows by William Vollmann

>> No.12688398

>>12688375
that pictures fucking dumb

>> No.12688454 [DELETED] 

>>12688398
why nigger

>> No.12688458

>>12688394
I recently read Butcher's crossing and enjoyed it, so I was looking for more books like it.

>> No.12688499

>>12688375
Any book about first-hand accounts of being captured by indians.

I highly recommend "Captured by Indians: 15 first-hand accounts, 1750-1870" Edited by Frederick Drimmer

>> No.12688507

>>12688375
Fenimore Cooper obviously

>> No.12688537

>>12688375
The Searchers by Alan Le May. Story of a young girl kidnapped by Commanches and the years-long search for her... Movie with John Wayne.

>> No.12688728

>>12688375
Louis Lamour wrote lot's of westerns and frontier noveks. Check "How the West was Won"

>> No.12688824

Red Dead Redemption 2

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>>12688375

>> No.12688897

>>12688375
Hitler's favourite author, Mayne Reid.

>> No.12688900

The Virginian changed my life

>> No.12689763

>>12688375
Bret Harte’s Stories
The Prairie - James Fenimore Cooper
The Yemassee: A Romance of Carolina - William Gilmore Simms
Woman’s Indian Captivity Narratives - i.e. Mary Rowlandson
The Oregon Trail - Francis Parkman Jr.
Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey
Warlock - Oakley Hall
The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth - James P. Beckwourth, T. D. Bonner
My Sixty Years on The Plains - William Thomas Hamilton
William Wood's 'New England's Prospect' is also interesting about the establishment of Colonies and their interactions with Indians

If you interested in Puritans there is also Bradford, Samuel Hooker, Hawthorne (obviously) as wells books like Cheney's 'A Peep at The Puritans' and Fenimore Coopers 'The Wept of Wish-ton-wish'

>> No.12690094

>>12688398
anon, this isn't a picture, it's a painting.