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Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman

In this suspenseful historical fiction, the Rose Riders are after a journal that shows the whereabouts of a secret gold mine. They kill Kate Thompson’s father to get it, so the eighteen-year-old disguises herself as a boy and explores the gritty plains for answers and justice.

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Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee

This high-drama western follows Sammy and Annamae, a Chinese American girl and an African American slave girl. The year is 1845, and they make the decision to disguise themselves as boys to take the Oregon Trail from Missouri to California.

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Cattle Kate: A Novel by Jana Bommersbach

Her name is Ellen Watson and she was lynched, along with her husband, in the Wyoming Territory in 1889; the crime was cattle rustling. Bommersbach takes this piece of history and weaves a fictional mystery that strives to tell the whole story.

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The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber

Agreeing to a marriage of convenience in order to share a parcel of land granted by Homestead Act, an African American man and a hired woman stake claim on land and begin a life in the South Dakotan Badlands. In this novel you’ll find domestic fiction combined with a fast-paced, character driven story.

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Sawbones by Melissa Lenhardt

After being falsely accused of murder, Dr. Catherine Bennet is due to hang. She quickly disappears into the Colorado territory with her doctor’s bag and a new name, but a female doctor with a bounty on her head can only hide so long. This gritty and atmospheric novel has strong female characters and an intricately plotted storyline.

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Silver on the Road by Laura Ann Gilman

In this historical fantasy, Izzy takes a job in the wild American West serving a powerful being who makes deals with people and gives them what they deserve. Gilman takes us on a creepy and atmospheric journey after Izzy receives training in the manipulations of human desire and travels throughout the territory causing magical chaos.

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The Outlander by Gil Adamson

Mary Boulton has just killed her husband and is fleeing for the mountains with visions of her cold -blooded brothers-in-law chasing her. In this fast-paced, compelling novel, Mary is forced further into the wilds of the west trying to escape her tormentors and her imagination.

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True Grit by Charles Portis

This descriptive, vengeance-is-mine novel follows fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross. She’s got her papa’s pistol tied to her saddle horn and is ready to avenge her father’s death.

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These is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 Arizona Territories A Novel by Nancy E. Turner

Based on the author’s ancestress who was a child of westward expansion, this richly detailed diary novel records her dreams, hopes, adventures, joys, and sorrows.

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River with No Bridge by Karen Wills

In this dramatic and atmospheric western, Nora Flanagan, daughter of Irish immigrants, moves west to marry a miner. Her husband dies in a mine explosion, which sets a series of actions in motion including an affair with a gambler that leaves her alone and pregnant and her friend Jim Li coming to her rescue in more ways than one.

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