Best Reads (And They Aren't All Westerns)
Western writers share the books that most influenced their lives and craft.
By: TW Editors 07/01/2007
Chris Enss is the author of Hearts West: True Stories of Mail Order Brides on the Frontier; How the West Was Worn: Bustles and Buckskins on the Wild Frontier; and Buffalo Gals: Women of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Her books, The Cowboy and the Senorita, Happy Trails and The Young Duke, were co-authored with film producer Howard Kazanjian. Her next book due out for publication is Tales Behind the Tombstones: The Deaths and Burials of the Old West’s Most Nefarious Outlaws.
Gentle Tamers
Dee Brown
My favorite of all of Brown’s writings, this book is perfect for anyone who wants to know about the lives of a variety of Westward women from the pioneers to the legends.
Baseball
Geoffrey Ward & Ken Burns
This marvelous pictorial about America’s favorite pastime walks you through the origins of the game and describes how the sport evolved into what it is today.
The Ox-Bow Incident
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
This Old West tale of a vigilante mob that acted rashly is poignant and stirring.
The Red Tent
Anita Diamant
Told from the perspective of a Biblical character named Dinah, this novel reveals the life of ancient womanhood. It’s a brilliant, original story that I couldn’t put down.
Strength of Stone: The Pioneer Journal of Electa Bryan Plumer
Diane Elliot
The hardships and struggles of a woman traveling West through the wild frontier to Montana is wonderfully told throughout the 1862-64 diary of a young schoolteacher.
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