San Francisco Chronicle list of The 20th Century's 100 Best Nonfiction of the American West

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The Chronicle Western 100 in nonfiction the best books of the 20th century written in or about, or by an author from, the Western United States. Based on a reader poll.

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Years:
All, 1999 (24)
WorkCategoryYear
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey
1999
The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin
1999
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
1999
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis
1999
The White Album by Joan Didion
1999
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig
1999
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
1999
Great Plains by Ian Frazier
1999
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places by Ursula K. Le Guin
1999
The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience by J. S. Holliday
1999
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
1999
The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the Building of the Central Pacific by Oscar Lewis
1999
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
1999
Assembling California by John McPhee
1999
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
1999
Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban
1999
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
1999
Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz
1999
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
1999
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner
1999
The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
1999
Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party by George R. Stewart
1999
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
1999
The Great Plains by Walter Prescott Webb
1999
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
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