Recently watched Yellowstone (and the prequels) and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I have a newfound interest in the Old West and Native American history, what are your top suggestions for novels covering these topics?
I have Lonesome Dove on my list as suggested by my dad, but that’s it.
I’ve been reading up a lot online about the respective histories so I would prefer fiction recommendations but I’m not opposed to non-fiction.
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Your dad got it right. You will love Lonesome Dove!
These are nonfiction:
*Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West* by Dee Brown.
*Patriot Chiefs: A Chronicle of American Indian Resistance* by Alvin Josephy.
*The Westo Indians: Slave Traders of the Early Colonial South* Eric E*.* Bowne.
*The Comanchero Frontier: A History of New Mexican-Plains Indian Relations* by Charles L. Kenner.
*Ishi in Two Worlds, 50th Anniversary Edition: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America* by Theodora Kroeber.
*The Gospel of the Red Man: A Way of Life* by Ernest Thomas Seton and Julia M. Seton, eds.
*Black Elk Speaks* by John G. Neihardt.
*The Blue, the Gray and the Red* by Thom Hatch.
*American Indians* by Wiliam T. Hagan.
*Fighting Indians of the West* by Dee Brown.
*Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas* by Mari Sandoz.
*The Battle of the Little Bighorn* by Mari Sandoz.
*Stand Watie and the Agony of the Cherokee Nation* by Kenny A. Franks.
*Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History* by S. C. Gwynne.
*Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I.* by David Grann.
“Caspion and the White Buffalo” by Melvin Litton.