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
19,380 members
305 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
18,044 members
239 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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3
On the Banks of Plum Creek
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
13,298 members
112 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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4
By the Shores of Silver Lake
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
12,077 members
77 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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5
The Long Winter
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
11,947 members
110 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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6
Little Town on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
11,065 members
87 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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7
These Happy Golden Years
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
10,426 members
79 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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8
The First Four Years
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
9,216 members
80 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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9
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
15,197 members
310 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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10
Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan
13,855 members
307 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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11
Caddie Woodlawn
by Carol Ryrie Brink
9,057 members
68 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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12
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
5,973 members
198 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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13
The Cabin Faced West
by Jean Fritz
2,982 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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14
These Is My Words
by Nancy E. Turner
2,019 members
92 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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15
A Lantern in Her Hand
by Bess Streeter Aldrich
1,264 members
21 reviews
4
2 Members
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16
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
15,237 members
145 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
merrystar
17
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
14,011 members
323 reviews
4.2
Member
sturlington
18
Old Yeller
by Fred Gipson
9,996 members
122 reviews
3.9
Member
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19
Ghost Town at Sundown
by Mary Pope Osborne
8,310 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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20
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
7,157 members
181 reviews
3.9
Member
merrystar
21
Twister on Tuesday
by Mary Pope Osborne
6,968 members
37 reviews
3.8
Member
merrystar
22
The Sisters Brothers
by Patrick deWitt
4,731 members
338 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
23
Close Range
by Annie Proulx
3,828 members
75 reviews
3.9
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sturlington
24
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
by Joan W. Blos
3,620 members
35 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
merrystar
25
Strawberry Girl
by Lois Lenski
3,481 members
48 reviews
3.8
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26
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
by Alice Dalgliesh
2,986 members
18 reviews
½ 3.7
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27
Little House on Rocky Ridge
by Roger Lea MacBride
2,789 members
18 reviews
½ 3.6
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28
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
by Owen Wister
2,637 members
48 reviews
3.8
Member
merrystar
29
Little Farm in the Ozarks
by Roger Lea MacBride
2,136 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
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30
Hattie Big Sky
by Kirby Larson
2,126 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
1,930 members
20 reviews
½ 3.5
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32
The Children's Blizzard
by David Laskin
1,868 members
86 reviews
4
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33
A Lost Lady
by Willa Cather
1,819 members
45 reviews
½ 3.7
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merrystar
34
Rescue on the Oregon Trail
by Kate Messner
1,613 members
14 reviews
3.9
Member
merrystar
35
In the Land of the Big Red Apple
by Roger Lea MacBride
1,542 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
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36
The Hunger
by Alma Katsu
1,430 members
67 reviews
½ 3.6
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sturlington
37
Little Big Man
by Thomas Berger
1,350 members
36 reviews
4.1
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aulsmith
38
On the Other Side of the Hill
by Roger Lea MacBride
1,138 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
merrystar
39
Boston Jane: An Adventure
by Jennifer L. Holm
1,026 members
18 reviews
4
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merrystar
40
Inland
by Téa Obreht
975 members
40 reviews
½ 3.5
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sturlington
41
Children of the Wild West
by Russell Freedman
962 members
9 reviews
4.2
Member
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42
Magical Melons
by Carol Ryrie Brink
890 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
merrystar
43
Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness
by Robert Specht
863 members
23 reviews
4.1
Member
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44
The Diary of Mattie Spenser
by Sandra Dallas
817 members
26 reviews
4.1
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45
Territory
by Emma Bull
776 members
43 reviews
3.8
Member
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46
New Dawn on Rocky Ridge
by Roger Lea MacBride
760 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
341 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
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49
True Sisters
by Sandra Dallas
262 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
34 members
1 review
4
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56
Farmer Boy
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
12,643 members
125 reviews
4
58
If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon
by Ellen Levine
2,664 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
59
The Courage of Sarah Noble
by Alice Dalgliesh
5,226 members
33 reviews
3.8
60
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
by David McCullough
2,501 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
61
Wagon Wheels
by Barbara Brenner
2,253 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
62
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
by Joanna L. Stratton
1,025 members
10 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
2,599 members
25 reviews
½ 3.7
64
Skylark (Sarah, Plain and Tall)
by Patricia MacLachlan
3,904 members
33 reviews
3.9
65
The Complete Little House Nine-Book Set
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
5,080 members
52 reviews
½ 4.4
66
Meet Kirsten: An American Girl
by Janet Beeler Shaw
3,835 members
33 reviews
3.9
67
Our Only May Amelia
by Jennifer L. Holm
2,172 members
36 reviews
½ 3.7
68
The Quilt Story
by Tony Johnston
2,786 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
9,654 members
84 reviews
3.8
71
The Josefina Story Quilt
by Eleanor Coerr
1,965 members
16 reviews
4.2
72
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847
by Kristiana Gregory
2,713 members
42 reviews
3.9
73
If You Were a Pioneer on the Prairie
by Anne Kamma
576 members
4 reviews
½ 4.5
74
Winter Days in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1,982 members
28 reviews
½ 4.3
75
Moccasin Trail
by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
2,039 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
76
Dandelions
by Eve Bunting
864 members
27 reviews
4.1
77
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
by Jim Fergus
4,363 members
207 reviews
½ 3.7
78
Bound for Oregon
by Jean Van Leeuwen
1,407 members
4 reviews
3.8
79
Caleb's Story (Sarah, Plain and Tall)
by Patricia MacLachlan
2,401 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
548 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
82
Kirsten's Surprise: A Christmas Story
by Janet Beeler Shaw
2,222 members
9 reviews
3.8
83
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
by Karen Cushman
1,554 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
84
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
by Daniel James Brown
1,307 members
75 reviews
4.1
85
Kirsten Learns a Lesson: A School Story
by Janet Beeler Shaw
2,284 members
10 reviews
3.9
86
Dance at Grandpa's
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1,429 members
24 reviews
4.2
87
Young Pioneers
by Rose Wilder Lane
814 members
17 reviews
½ 3.7
88
The Pioneers
by Marie Gorsline
297 members
1 review
4
89
Kirsten Saves the Day: A Summer Story
by Janet Shaw
1,904 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
90
Calico Bush
by Rachel Field
1,882 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
91
A Little Prairie House (Little House Picture Book)
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
979 members
6 reviews
4.2
92
Giants in the Earth
by O. E. Rølvaag
1,596 members
23 reviews
4
93
Daily Life in a Covered Wagon
by Paul Erickson
528 members
3 reviews
4.1
94
Rachel's Journal: The Story of a Pioneer Girl
by Marissa Moss
629 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
95
Changes for Kirsten: A Winter Story
by Janet Beeler Shaw
1,872 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
96
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
by Caroline Fraser
1,559 members
85 reviews
4
97
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
1,200 members
39 reviews
4
98
Westward Ho!: The Story of the Pioneers (Landmark Books)
by Lucille Recht Penner
196 members
½ 4.7
99
Happy Birthday, Kirsten!: A Springtime Story
by Janet Beeler Shaw
1,969 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
1,440 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6