Looking mainly for books about native Americans, the Oregon trail, the Wild West, mountain men, those sorts of things. Only really interested in historical accounts, not fiction. I’ve read books such as: Blood and thunder, bury my heart at wounded knee, empire of the summer moon etc and really liked those and would like some suggestions in that vein!
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Have you read The Revenant? It is fiction but based on history.
The People’s History of the United States
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Roemer’s Texas was interesting. Just a simple firsthand account of a German botanist traveling across Texas on a mule in the 1840’s.
Walking in the Sacred Manner by Mark St. Pierre and Tilda Long Soldier
*Gateway to Empire* by Allan Eckert (historical fiction).
*Twilight of Empire* by Allan Eckert (historical fiction).
*A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh* by Allan Eckert.
*Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis* by William C. Davis.
*Lone Star Rising* by William C. Davis.
*When the Eagle Screamed: The Romantic Horizon in American Expansionism, 1800-1860* by William H. Goetzmann.
*Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party* by George R. Stewart.
*Patriot Chiefs* by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
*Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West* by Stephen Ambrose.
*Pony Express* by Fred Reinfeld.
*Fort Smith: Little Gibraltar on the Arkansas* by Edwin C. Bearss and A.M. Gibson.
*The Blue, the Gray and the Red* by Thom Hatch.
*Impending Crisis* by David Potter.
*Battle Cry of Freedom* by James M. McPherson.
*Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War* by Maury Klein.
*Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln* by Edward Steers Jr.
*The Day Lincoln Was Shot* by Jim Bishop.
*Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment* (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society) by Michael Vorenberg.
*Impeached The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy* by David O. Stewart.
*The Comanchero Frontier: A History of New Mexican-Plains Indian Relations* by Charles L. Kenner.
*Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869* by Stephen Ambrose.
*Patriot Chiefs: A Chronicle of American Indian Resistance* by Alvin Josephy.
*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.
*Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson* by Raymond W. Thorp Jr. and Robert Bunker.
*Jay Cooke’s Gamble The Northern Pacific Railroad the Sioux and the Panic of 1873* by M. John Lubetkin.
*Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer* by Jeffry D. Wert.
*Doc Holliday* by John Myers Myers.
*The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street: Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the Erie Railway Wars* by John Steele Gordon.
*Dark Horse: the Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield* by Kenneth D. Ackerman.
*Banking Panics of the Gilded Age* by Elmus Wicker.
Are you interested in the southwest? Naturalist Mary Austin’s Land of Little Rain is short and beautiful. [https://www.counterpointpress.com/books/the-land-of-little-rain/](https://www.counterpointpress.com/books/the-land-of-little-rain/)