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Booklist: Wild West Fiction for Young Adults

Juvenile

All Aboard (Philip Ault)

Before the Lark (Irene Bennett Brown)

The Big Burn (Jeanette Ingold)

The Black Mustanger (Richard Wormser)

Bootmaker and Elves (Susan Lowell)

The Burning Class (Annabel and Edgar Johnson)

By the Great Spoon (Sid (A. E.) Fleischman)

Cayuse Courage (Evelyn Lampman)

Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella (Susan Lowell)

Dandelions (Eve Bunting)

Danger Along the Ohio (Patricia Willis)

The Dunderhead War (Betty Baker)

Dust of the Earth (Vera and Bill Cleaver)

Far North (Will Hobbs)

Freedom Trail (Jeanne Williams)

Getting There (Suzanne Hilton)

Half Breed (Evelyn Lampman)

The Haymeadow (Gary Paulsen)

Honey Girl (Madge Harrah)

The Horse Talker (Jeanne Williams)

Indio (Sherry Garland)

In The Eye of the Storm: The Adventures of Young Buffalo Bill (E. Cody Kimmel)

In the Face of Danger (Joan Lowery Nixon)

Leaving Eldorado (Joann Mazzio)

The Legend of Strap Buckner (Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge and Andrew Glass)

Make Way for Sam Houston (Jean Fritz)

The Meeker Massacre (Wayne Overholser and Lewis Patten)

Middl'un (Elizabeth Burleson)

The Midnight Train Home (Erika Tamar)

My Daniel (Pam Conrad)

The No-Return Trail (Sonia Levitin)

Only Earth & Sky Last Forever (Nathaniel Benchley)

The Orphan Train (Joan Lowery Nixon)

Petey (Ben Mikaelson)

Prairie Songs (Pam Conrad)

The Prairie Train (Antoine O'Flatharta)

Rescue Josh McGuire (Ben Mikaelsen)

Ride a Northbound Horse (Richard Wormser)

Rockbuster (Gloria Skurzynski)

Sagebrush Sorrel (Frank C. Robertson)

A Shepherd Watches, A Shepherd Sings (Louis Irigaray and Theodore Taylor)

Slim & Miss Prim (Robert Kinerk)

The Star People: A Lakota Story (S.D. Nelson)

Steamboat Up the Missouri (Dale White)

The Story Catcher (Man Sandoz)

The Stubborn One (Rutherford Montgomery)

Susy's Scoundrel (Harold Keith)

Their Shining Hour (Ramona Maher Weeks)

Thunder on the Tennessee (Gary Clifton Wisler)

A Trail of Tears (David Fremon)

Trapped in Slz~rock Canyon (Gloria Skurzynski)

Trapping the Silver Beaver (Charles Niehuis)

The Western Horse (Natlee Kenoyer)

Wolf Brother (Jim Kjelgaard)

The Worry Stone (Marianna Dengler)

Wrango (Brian Burks)

Young Hero of the Range (Stephen Payne)

Advanced

Aces and Eights by Loren D. Estleman

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton by Jane Smiley

Among the Eagles by C. Clifton Wisler

Blood of Texas by Preston Lewis writing as Will Camp

Big With Vengeance by Cecil Snyder

The Blind Corral by Ralph Robert Beer

Bound for the Promise Land by Troy D. Smith

The Buffalo Soldiers by John Prebble

Buffalo Wagons by Elmer Kelton

The Changing Wind by Don Coldsmith

The Chili Queen by Sandra Dallas

Chiricahua by Will Henry

Comanche Captives by Fred Grove

Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry

The Court Martial of George Armstrong Custer by Douglas C. Jones

The Dark Island by Robert J. Conley

Dark Trail by Hiram King

The Day the Cowboys Quit by Elmer Kelton

Down the Long Hills by Louis L'Amour

Empire of Bones by Jeff Long

Eye of the Hawk by Elmer Kelton

The Fancher Train by Amelia Bean

The Far Canyon by Elmer Kelton

Follow the Free Wind by Leigh Brackett

Fool's Coach by Richard Wheeler

Friends by Charles Hackenberry

From Where the Sun Now Stands by Will Henry

The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan

Gates of the Mountains by Will Henry

Generations of Men by John Clinton Hunt

The Golden Chance by T. V. Olsen

Gold in California by Todhunter Ballard

Gone the Dreams and Dancing by Douglas C. Jones

The Great Horse Race by Fred Grove

A Hanging In Sweetwater by Stephen Overholser

Hellfire Jackson by Garland Roark and Charles Thomas

High Gun by Leslie Ernenwein

The Holdouts by William Decker

Home Mountain by Jeanne Williams

The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout

Horizon by Lee Head

Indian Fighter by F. F. Halloran

I Should Be Extremely Happy In Your Company by Brian Hall

Journal of the Gun Years by Richard Matheson

Journey by the River by John Prescott

Journey of the Dead by Loren D. Estleman

A Killing in Kiowa by Lewis B. Patten

The Kincaids by Matt Braun

The Kiowa Verdict by Cynthia Haseloff

The Last Days of Wolf Garnett by Clifton Adams

Lawman by Lee Leighton

Leaving Kansas by Frank Roderus

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Long Run by Nelson Nye

Masterson by Richard S. Wheeler

Mattie by Judy Alter

The Medicine Horn by Jory Sherman

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall

Moon Trap by Don Berry

Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher

The Nameless Breed by Will C. Brown

Nickajack by Robert J. Conley

Oblivion’s Altar: A Novel of Courage by David Marion Wilkinson

Panther in the Sky by James Alexander Thom

Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling

Prophet Annie by Ellen Recknor

Rage in Chupadera by Norman Zollinger

The Red Sabbath by Lewis Patten

Riders to Cibola by Norman Zollinger

Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson

Roman by Douglas C. Jones

Sam Bass by Bryan Woolley

Sam Chance by Benjamin Capps

Sanctuary by Gary Svee

The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout

Short Cut to Red River by Noel Loomis

Sierra by Richard S. Wheeler

Silver Mountain by Dan Cushman

Skinwalker by Tony Hillerman

Slaughter by Elmer Kelton

The Snowblind Moon by John Byrne Cook

Somewhere They Die by L.P. Holmes

So Wild A Dream by Win Blevins

The Spirit Horses by Lou Cameron

St. Agnes' Stand by Tom Eidson

Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse by Win Blevins

Summer of Pearls by Mike Blakely

Swimming Man Burning by Terrence Kilpatrick

Thunder in the Valley by Jim R. Woolard

The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton

The Trail to Ogallala by Benjamin Capps

Tragg's Choice by Clifton Adams

The Valdez Horses by Lee Hoffman

The Valiant Women by Jeanne Williams

The Violent Land by Wayne D. Overholser

Wanderer Springs by Robert Flynn

The Way of the Coyote by Elmer Kelton

The Wheel and the Hearth by Lucia Moore

The White Many Road by Benjamin Capps

The Winter War by William Wister I-lames

The Wolf is My Brother by Chad Oliver

All selections are winners of the Spur Awards, presented by Western Writers of America