Subject: West (U.S.) Biography

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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (17,391 copies)
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living… by Wallace Stegner (705 copies)
The Old West: The Great Chiefs by Benjamin Capps (446 copies)
Jesse James, Last Rebel of the Civil War by T. J. Stiles (434 copies)
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea,… by Ellen Meloy (372 copies)
Buffalo Bill: Frontier Daredevil by Augusta Stevenson (326 copies)
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta (289 copies)
Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier by Ralph Moody (227 copies)
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the… by Kenneth L. Holmes (208 copies)
Hearts West: True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the… by Chris Enss (199 copies)
Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend by Gary L. Roberts (199 copies)
The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the… by William Loren Katz (190 copies)
In the American West by Richard Avedon (190 copies)
My Life as an Indian by J. W. Schultz (186 copies)
Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining… by Harriet Fish Backus (156 copies)
Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel (151 copies)
Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West by Larry McMurtry (140 copies)
Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show by Louis S. Warren (129 copies)
The Westerners by Dee Alexander Brown (126 copies)
Running After Antelope by Scott Carrier (120 copies)
Pictorial history of the wild West; a true account of the… by James David Horan (114 copies)
The Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis (107 copies)
Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen… by LeRoy R. Hafen (95 copies)
High-Spirited Women of the West by Anne Seagraves (90 copies)
The Shooters by Leon Claire Metz (81 copies)
Heart of the Trail: The Stories of Eight Wagon Train Women by Mary Barmeyer O'Brien (78 copies)
Daughters of the West (Women of the West) by Anne Seagraves (74 copies)
The Backbone of the World: A Portrait of the Vanishing West… by Frank Clifford (72 copies)
A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West by Mary Hallock Foote (71 copies)
Absaraka : Home of the Crows by Margaret Irvin Carrington (69 copies)
Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait by Karen Holliday Tanner (65 copies)
Growing Up Western: Recollections by Dee Brown, A.B.… by Clarus Backes (64 copies)
Journey to Zion: Voices from the Mormon Trail by Carol Cornwall Madsen (62 copies)
The Territory of Men: A Memoir by Joelle Fraser (61 copies)
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love: Better Known in the… by Nat Love (58 copies)
Calamity Jane: Her Life and Her Legend by Doris Faber (53 copies)
Wild and Woolly: An Encyclopedia of the Old West by Dennis Mcloughlin (51 copies)
Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters by Bill O'Neal (49 copies)
Buffalo Bill by Shannon Garst (48 copies)
Quaker profiles from the American West by Errol T. Elliott (46 copies)
Soldiers West: Biographies from the Military Frontier by Paul Andrew Hutton (43 copies)
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Frances M. A. Roe (41 copies)
The Authentic Wild West: The Gunfighters by James David Horan (40 copies)
Black People Who Made the Old West by William Loren Katz (39 copies)
Legends of the Wild West by James A. Crutchfield (38 copies)
Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the American… by Michael Rutter (38 copies)
Earth Horizon: An Autobiography by Mary Hunter Austin (37 copies)
We'll All Go Home in the Spring: Personal Accounts and… by Robert A. Bennett (36 copies)
The Cattle Kings by Lewis Atherton (36 copies)
Belle Starr and Her Times: The Literature, the Facts, and… by Glenn Shirley (31 copies)
Army Wives on the American Frontier: Living by the Bugles by Anne Bruner Eales (31 copies)
Extraordinary Women of the American West by Judy Alter (30 copies)
My Heroes, My People: African Americans and Native… by Morgan Monceaux (30 copies)
Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers by Ginger Wadsworth (29 copies)
Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark by William E. Foley (28 copies)
Encyclopedia Of Western Lawmen and Outlaws by Jay Robert Nash (27 copies)
Kit Carson and His Three Wives: A Family History (Calvin P.… by Marc Simmons (27 copies)
Bandido: Oscar "zeta" Acosta And The Chicano Experience by Ilan Stavans (27 copies)
The Cattle King: The Biography of Henry Miller by Edward F. Treadwell (27 copies)
Journal of a Mountain Man (Classics of the Fur Trade) by James Clyman (26 copies)
In Search of York: The Slave Who Went to the Pacific With… by Robert B. Betts (26 copies)
Outrageous Women of the American Frontier by Mary Rodd Furbee (24 copies)
Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 by Weldon W. Rau (23 copies)
Trappers of the Far West: Sixteen Biographical Sketches… by LeRoy R. Hafen (22 copies)
Western Outlaws by Frank Surge (22 copies)
With Badges & Bullets: Lawmen & Outlaws in the Old West… by Richard W. Etulain (22 copies)
Women of the Wild West (A&E Biography) by Katherine E. Krohn (21 copies)
Seventy Years on the Frontier by Alexander Majors (21 copies)
Hard Twist: Western Ranch Women by Barbara Van Cleve (18 copies)
Western Yesterdays, Volume I by Forest Crossen (17 copies)
Saddles and Sabers: Black Men in the Old West. (Toward… by LaVere Anderson (17 copies)
Reminiscences of a soldier's wife by Ellen McGowan Biddle (17 copies)
Western Lawmen by Frank Surge (16 copies)
A Gallery of Dudes by Marshall Sprague (16 copies)
The Human Tradition in the American West by Regan A. Lutz (14 copies)
Women of the West by Silvia Anne Sheafer (14 copies)
Cavalry Life in Tent and Field by Mrs. Orsemus B. Boyd (14 copies)
California Joe: Noted Scout and Indian Fighter by Joe E. Milner (12 copies)
Plain Anne Ellis: More About the Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis (12 copies)
Literature of the American West by Greg Lyons (12 copies)
The Dalton Gang by Carl R. Green (9 copies)
Back Trail of an Old Cowboy by Paul E Young (9 copies)
Happy As A Big Sunflower * by Rolf Johnson (8 copies)
The gunfighters by Dale T. Schoenberger (8 copies)
Moving Stories: Migration and the American West, 1850-2000… by Scott E. Casper (8 copies)
Law of the Range: Portraits of Old-Time Brand Inspectors by Stephen Collector (7 copies)
The westerners : a roundup of pioneer reminiscences by John Myers Myers (7 copies)
Children's Voices from the Trail: Narratives of the Platte… by Rosemary Gudmundson Palmer (7 copies)
The Guns of the Gunfighters: Lawmen, Outlaws & Hollywood… by Doc O'Meara (7 copies)
Eminent women of the West by Elinor Richey (7 copies)
Women of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction and Film by Ronald W. Lackmann (7 copies)
Young Wayfarers of the Early West by Olive Woolley Burt (7 copies)
Nellie Cashman, prospector and trailblazer by Suzann Ledbetter (6 copies)
Guns & Ammo Guide to Guns of The Gunfighters by James Garry (6 copies)
John Henry (the "Doc" Holliday story) by Ben T. Traywick (5 copies)
Men Down West by Kenneth Lincoln (5 copies)
Bowler hats and stetsons by Colin Rickards (5 copies)
Famous lawmen of the Old West (Famous biographies for young… by Dorothy M. Johnson (4 copies)
Outlaws and gunfighters of the Old West by Phillip Steele (4 copies)
Red Walls and Homesteads by Helena Thomas Rubottom (3 copies)
Issei women : echoes from another frontier by Eileen Sunada Sarasohn (3 copies)
Sacagawea by Don McLeese (3 copies)
Men who are making the West by B. C. Forbes (2 copies)
Frank Grouard, army scout : true adventures in the early… by Margaret Brock Hanson (2 copies)
The American West (1965 - 1983) (2 copies)
America fever: A Swede in the West, 1914-1923 by Erick H. Youngquist (2 copies)
For every man there is a destiny by Grace Coffin Henry (1 copies)
A Sharp Night's Work, A Powerful Detective Story. by James Franklin Fitts (1 copies)
True tales of the Old West by Charles L. Convis (1 copies)