Books about Frontier Life and Pioneers

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pioneers
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Little House in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
19,444 members
306 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
18,109 members
240 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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3
On the Banks of Plum Creek
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
13,353 members
112 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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4
By the Shores of Silver Lake
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
12,130 members
77 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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5
The Long Winter
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
11,998 members
110 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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6
Little Town on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
11,121 members
87 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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7
These Happy Golden Years
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
10,453 members
80 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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8
The First Four Years
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
9,246 members
80 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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9
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
15,236 members
310 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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10
Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan
13,886 members
307 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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11
Caddie Woodlawn
by Carol Ryrie Brink
9,089 members
69 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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12
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
5,991 members
198 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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13
The Cabin Faced West
by Jean Fritz
2,986 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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14
These Is My Words
by Nancy E. Turner
2,024 members
92 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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15
A Lantern in Her Hand
by Bess Streeter Aldrich
1,268 members
21 reviews
4
2 Members
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16
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
15,272 members
145 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
merrystar
17
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
14,077 members
327 reviews
4.2
Member
sturlington
18
Old Yeller
by Fred Gipson
10,032 members
122 reviews
3.9
Member
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19
Ghost Town at Sundown
by Mary Pope Osborne
8,339 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
merrystar
20
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
7,184 members
181 reviews
3.9
Member
merrystar
21
Twister on Tuesday
by Mary Pope Osborne
7,014 members
37 reviews
3.8
Member
merrystar
22
The Sisters Brothers
by Patrick deWitt
4,734 members
340 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
23
Close Range
by Annie Proulx
3,836 members
75 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
24
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
by Joan W. Blos
3,628 members
35 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
merrystar
25
Strawberry Girl
by Lois Lenski
3,482 members
48 reviews
3.8
Member
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26
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
by Alice Dalgliesh
2,996 members
18 reviews
½ 3.7
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27
Little House on Rocky Ridge
by Roger Lea MacBride
2,790 members
18 reviews
½ 3.6
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28
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
by Owen Wister
2,641 members
48 reviews
3.8
Member
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29
Little Farm in the Ozarks
by Roger Lea MacBride
2,141 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
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30
Hattie Big Sky
by Kirby Larson
2,132 members
104 reviews
4.1
Member
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31
West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1,933 members
20 reviews
½ 3.5
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32
The Children's Blizzard
by David Laskin
1,872 members
86 reviews
4
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33
A Lost Lady
by Willa Cather
1,825 members
46 reviews
½ 3.7
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merrystar
34
Rescue on the Oregon Trail
by Kate Messner
1,620 members
14 reviews
3.9
Member
merrystar
35
In the Land of the Big Red Apple
by Roger Lea MacBride
1,548 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
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36
The Hunger
by Alma Katsu
1,440 members
68 reviews
½ 3.6
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sturlington
37
Little Big Man
by Thomas Berger
1,351 members
35 reviews
4.1
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aulsmith
38
On the Other Side of the Hill
by Roger Lea MacBride
1,141 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
merrystar
39
Boston Jane: An Adventure
by Jennifer L. Holm
1,028 members
18 reviews
4
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merrystar
40
Inland
by Téa Obreht
975 members
40 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
sturlington
41
Children of the Wild West
by Russell Freedman
966 members
9 reviews
4.2
Member
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42
Magical Melons
by Carol Ryrie Brink
895 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
merrystar
43
Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness
by Robert Specht
864 members
23 reviews
4.1
Member
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44
The Diary of Mattie Spenser
by Sandra Dallas
819 members
26 reviews
4.1
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45
Territory
by Emma Bull
776 members
43 reviews
3.8
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46
New Dawn on Rocky Ridge
by Roger Lea MacBride
761 members
4 reviews
3.8
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47
Caroline: Little House, Revisited
by Sarah Miller
660 members
45 reviews
3.8
Member
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48
Independence!
by Dana Fuller Ross
340 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
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49
True Sisters
by Sandra Dallas
261 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
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50
Impatient with Desire
by Gabrielle Burton
227 members
71 reviews
3.8
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sturlington
52
Wyoming: Four Novels of Love in Frontier Forts
by Colleen Coble
116 members
4 reviews
4.1
Member
dara85
53
Journal of Callie Wade
by Dawn Miller
65 members
1 review
½ 3.7
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54
The Giant Joshua
by Maurine Whipple
46 members
1 review
½ 3.6
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55
The Overland Trail
by Wendi Lee
33 members
1 review
4
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56
Farmer Boy
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
12,706 members
125 reviews
4
58
If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon
by Ellen Levine
2,669 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
59
The Courage of Sarah Noble
by Alice Dalgliesh
5,245 members
33 reviews
3.8
60
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
by David McCullough
2,516 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
61
Wagon Wheels
by Barbara Brenner
2,265 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
62
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
by Joanna L. Stratton
1,029 members
11 reviews
4.1
63
On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
2,607 members
25 reviews
½ 3.7
64
Skylark (Sarah, Plain and Tall)
by Patricia MacLachlan
3,927 members
33 reviews
3.9
65
The Complete Little House Nine-Book Set
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
5,094 members
52 reviews
½ 4.4
66
Meet Kirsten: An American Girl
by Janet Beeler Shaw
3,858 members
33 reviews
3.9
67
Our Only May Amelia
by Jennifer L. Holm
2,187 members
36 reviews
½ 3.7
68
The Quilt Story
by Tony Johnston
2,794 members
30 reviews
3.9
69
A Pioneer Story: The Daily Life of a Canadian Family in 1840
by Barbara Greenwood
768 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
70
The Sign of the Beaver
by Elizabeth George Speare
9,707 members
84 reviews
3.8
71
The Josefina Story Quilt
by Eleanor Coerr
1,978 members
16 reviews
4.2
72
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847
by Kristiana Gregory
2,722 members
42 reviews
3.9
73
If You Were a Pioneer on the Prairie
by Anne Kamma
578 members
4 reviews
½ 4.5
74
Winter Days in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1,987 members
28 reviews
½ 4.3
75
Moccasin Trail
by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
2,050 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
76
Dandelions
by Eve Bunting
873 members
27 reviews
4.1
77
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
by Jim Fergus
4,370 members
207 reviews
½ 3.7
78
Bound for Oregon
by Jean Van Leeuwen
1,419 members
4 reviews
3.8
79
Caleb's Story (Sarah, Plain and Tall)
by Patricia MacLachlan
2,418 members
17 reviews
3.9
80
Daniel's Duck (I Can Read Level 3)
by Clyde Robert Bulla
1,529 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
81
To California by Covered Wagon
by George R. Stewart
549 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
82
Kirsten's Surprise: A Christmas Story
by Janet Beeler Shaw
2,231 members
9 reviews
3.8
83
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
by Karen Cushman
1,560 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
84
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
by Daniel James Brown
1,321 members
75 reviews
4.1
85
Kirsten Learns a Lesson: A School Story
by Janet Beeler Shaw
2,293 members
11 reviews
3.9
86
Dance at Grandpa's
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1,437 members
24 reviews
4.2
87
Young Pioneers
by Rose Wilder Lane
816 members
17 reviews
½ 3.7
88
The Pioneers
by Marie Gorsline
296 members
1 review
4
89
Kirsten Saves the Day: A Summer Story
by Janet Shaw
1,912 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
90
Calico Bush
by Rachel Field
1,889 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
91
A Little Prairie House (Little House Picture Book)
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
982 members
6 reviews
4.2
92
Giants in the Earth
by O. E. Rølvaag
1,599 members
23 reviews
4
93
Daily Life in a Covered Wagon
by Paul Erickson
532 members
3 reviews
4.1
94
Rachel's Journal: The Story of a Pioneer Girl
by Marissa Moss
630 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
95
Changes for Kirsten: A Winter Story
by Janet Beeler Shaw
1,892 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
96
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
by Caroline Fraser
1,567 members
85 reviews
4
97
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
1,202 members
39 reviews
4
98
Westward Ho!: The Story of the Pioneers (Landmark Books)
by Lucille Recht Penner
195 members
½ 4.7
99
Happy Birthday, Kirsten!: A Springtime Story
by Janet Beeler Shaw
1,981 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
100
West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi, New York to Idaho Territory, 1883
by Jim Murphy
1,447 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6