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Larry McMurtry is one of the most talented storytellers of the old west (the Lonesome Dove books) and the new west (Horseman Pass By, The Last Picture Show trilogy, and Terms of Endearment). His works Boone's Lick, Sin Killer, and The Wandering Hill have the quality of a great tall-tale populated with a fascinating array of western types - preachers, whores, cavalrymen, bandits - brought to glowing life through McMurtry's spare, vernacular prose. The following list contains historical westerns ranging from gentle family sagas to nonstop bloodbaths. They all share an interest in men and women released from the props and buffers of city life to confront the nature within and without them. If You Like Larry McMurtry, try these authors. | | Berger,
Thomas
Little Big Man
111-year-old White Indian Jack Crabb has lived among the Cheyenne, fought with Wyatt Earp, cheated Wild Bill Hickock, and served with Custer at Little Big Horn, the very man who butchered his people.
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 | | Blake,
James Carlos
Wildwood Boys
The gripping adventure of the grandiloquent William 'Bloody Bill' Anderson, an associate of notorious Civil War bushwacker William Quantrill as he indulges his love of poetry, women, and killing Yankees.
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 | | Blake,
Michael
Marching to Valhalla: A Novel of Custer's Last Days
The author of "Dances with Wolves" takes us inside the head of the brilliant and enigmatic megalomaniac George Armstrong Custer as he marches forth to meet his maker at Little Big Horn.
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 | | Bonner,
Cindy
Lily
The engaging story of Lily Delony, a farmer's daughter who has fallen head-over-heels for gun-toting Marion Beatty, baby brother to a trio of infamous bad men - not the in-laws Lily's parents had hoped for.
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 | | Combs,
Harry
Brules
The first book in a trilogy in which cow-puncher and outlaw Cat Brules reminisces about how he enacted a one-man war on the Comanche nation, and then was to bay by his love for a Shoshone woman.
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 | | Doctorow,
E.L.
Welcome to Hard Times
Hard Times is an aptly-named startup town in the Dakota territory struggling to survive the combined opposition of the cruel elements and the Bad Man from Bodie, himself a relentless force of nature.
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 | | Doig,
Ivan
Montana Trilogy (English Creek, Dancing at the Rascal Fair, Ride with me, Mariah Montana)
This expansive saga of the McCaskills, Scottish emigrants settling in rural Montana, combines winning characters, countless entertaining vignettes, and a stunningly detailed and poetic evocation of place.
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 | | Estleman,
Loren D.
Bloody Season
The shootout lasted only 15 seconds, but the story of the gunfight at O.K. Corral lives on in this visceral retelling which brings the fascinating and often unsavory Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp to gritty life.
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 | | Galvin,
James
Fencing the Sky
In this vivid contemporary story of the Western spirit, lone horseman lassoes a gun-toting land developer off his All Terrain Vehicle, and nobody around the Colorado back-country seems to mind much.
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 | | Gloss,
Molly
The Jump-off Creek
This tersely realistic and moving tale of a widowed homesteader in the harsh Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award.
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 | | L'Amour,
Louis
Hondo
The classic story of the great Apache warrior Vittorio, the beautiful abandoned Angie Lane and her son, and strapping, stoic army scout Hondo Lane and his dog Sam.
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 | | Kelton,
Elmer
The Day the Cowboys Quit
In this Spur Award winning Western, greedy managers from wealthy cattle syndicates back East try to take away the ownership rights of Texas cowpunchers, leading to the great Cowboy Strike of 1883.
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 | | Leonard,
Elmore
Hombre
When his stagecoach is held up in the Arizona desert, Apache-raised John Russell must decide if he should risk his life to save the other passengers, members of a race that has destroyed his own heritage.
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| | Matheson,
Richard
Journal of the Gun Years
Legendary gunslinger and lawman Clay Halser is gunned down by a twitchy youth, leaving behind this intimate account of his turbulent, exhilarating and ultimately tragic journey from man to myth.
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 | | McCarthy,
Cormac
The Border Trilogy (All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain.)
This densely-written epic of the harsh Southwest has been acclaimed for its stark, poetic descriptions of landscape, work, weather, and the men and beasts of the American West.
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 | | O'Brien,
Dan
The Contract Surgeon
In this intriguing historical drama with vivid, well-realized characters, it is up to Dr. Valentine McGillicuddy to keep the back-stabbed Sioux chief Crazy Horse alive in hopes of preventing further tribal war.
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 | | Richter,
Conrad
The Awakening Land Trilogy (The Trees, The Fields, The Town)
The saga of pioneer Sayward Luckett Wheeler who settles in the frontier beyond the Alleghenies in the late 18th century, marries, clears the land, and watches civilization grow up around her.
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 | | Richter,
Conrad
The Sea of Grass
A wistful story of coming-of-age amidst ranch wars in New Mexico that has all the haunting resonance of Greek epic.
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 | | Shrake,
Edwin B.
The Borderland: A Novel of Texas
This well-researched, colorful epic tells of the birth pangs and death rattle of the fledgling Republic of Texas in its struggle to survive wars with Mexico and the Comanches, and grow into a viable nation.
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 | | Stegner,
Wallace
Angle of Repose
Past merges with present in the saga of Susan and Oliver Ward, a mining couple carving out a life in the unsettled west, as recalled by their descendant Lyman Ward, himself a miner in the vein of time.
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| | Swarthout,
Glendon
The Homesman
Schoolmarm Mary Bee Cuddy must transport four women driven mad by the rigors of the frontier across a vast wilderness back to Iowa, with her travelling companion Briggs, a lowlife foul-mouthed claim-jumper.
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 | | Traven,
B.
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
This classic western about prospectors searching for Eldorado in revolutionary Mexico is taut and gripping morality tale of desperate men dazed by the beating sun and maddened by the cruel seduction of gold.
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 | | Trevanian,
Incident at Twenty Mile
This western-thriller set in a dying silver-mining town in Wyoming pits Matthew Dubchuk, a naïve and boisterous youth, against three ruthless and bloodthirsty killers.
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 | | Wheeler,
Richard S.
Second Lives: A Novel of the Gilded Age
Ex-millionaire Dixie Ball and her man, Lorenzo 'Magnificent' Carthage, join the struggling tide of humanity searching for a fresh start or a reversal of fortunes in 1880's Denver.
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