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Booklist: Wild West Fiction for Young Adults
Juvenile
All Aboard (Philip Ault)
Before the Lark (Irene Bennett Brown)
The Big Burn (Jeanette Ingold)
The Black Mustanger (Richard Wormser)
Bootmaker and Elves (Susan Lowell)
The Burning Class (Annabel and Edgar Johnson)
By the Great Spoon (Sid (A. E.) Fleischman)
Cayuse Courage (Evelyn Lampman)
Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella (Susan
Lowell)
Dandelions (Eve Bunting)
Danger Along the Ohio (Patricia Willis)
The Dunderhead War (Betty Baker)
Dust of the Earth (Vera and Bill Cleaver)
Far North (Will Hobbs)
Freedom Trail (Jeanne Williams)
Getting There (Suzanne Hilton)
Half Breed (Evelyn Lampman)
The Haymeadow (Gary Paulsen)
Honey Girl (Madge Harrah)
The Horse Talker (Jeanne Williams)
Indio (Sherry Garland)
In The Eye of the Storm: The Adventures of
Young Buffalo Bill (E. Cody Kimmel)
In the Face of Danger (Joan Lowery Nixon)
Leaving Eldorado (Joann Mazzio)
The Legend of Strap Buckner (Connie Nordhielm
Wooldridge and Andrew Glass)
Make Way for Sam Houston (Jean Fritz)
The Meeker Massacre (Wayne Overholser and
Lewis Patten)
Middl'un (Elizabeth Burleson)
The Midnight Train Home (Erika Tamar)
My Daniel (Pam Conrad)
The No-Return Trail (Sonia Levitin)
Only Earth & Sky Last Forever (Nathaniel
Benchley)
The Orphan Train (Joan Lowery Nixon)
Petey (Ben Mikaelson)
Prairie Songs (Pam Conrad)
The Prairie Train (Antoine O'Flatharta)
Rescue Josh McGuire (Ben Mikaelsen)
Ride a Northbound Horse (Richard Wormser)
Rockbuster (Gloria Skurzynski)
Sagebrush Sorrel (Frank C. Robertson)
A Shepherd Watches, A Shepherd Sings (Louis
Irigaray and Theodore Taylor)
Slim & Miss Prim (Robert Kinerk)
The Star People: A Lakota Story (S.D. Nelson)
Steamboat Up the Missouri (Dale White)
The Story Catcher (Man Sandoz)
The Stubborn One (Rutherford Montgomery)
Susy's Scoundrel (Harold Keith)
Their Shining Hour (Ramona Maher Weeks)
Thunder on the Tennessee (Gary Clifton Wisler)
A Trail of Tears (David Fremon)
Trapped in Slz~rock Canyon (Gloria Skurzynski)
Trapping the Silver Beaver (Charles Niehuis)
The Western Horse (Natlee Kenoyer)
Wolf Brother (Jim Kjelgaard)
The Worry Stone (Marianna Dengler)
Wrango (Brian Burks)
Young Hero of the Range (Stephen Payne)
Advanced
Aces and Eights by Loren D. Estleman
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie
Newton by Jane Smiley
Among the Eagles by C. Clifton Wisler
Blood of Texas by Preston Lewis writing as Will
Camp
Big With Vengeance by Cecil Snyder
The Blind Corral by Ralph Robert Beer
Bound for the Promise Land by Troy D. Smith
The Buffalo Soldiers by John Prebble
Buffalo Wagons by Elmer Kelton
The Changing Wind by Don Coldsmith
The Chili Queen by Sandra Dallas
Chiricahua by Will Henry
Comanche Captives by Fred Grove
Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry
The Court Martial of George Armstrong Custer
by Douglas C. Jones
The Dark Island by Robert J. Conley
Dark Trail by Hiram King
The Day the Cowboys Quit by Elmer Kelton
Down the Long Hills by Louis L'Amour
Empire of Bones by Jeff Long
Eye of the Hawk by Elmer Kelton
The Fancher Train by Amelia Bean
The Far Canyon by Elmer Kelton
Follow the Free Wind by Leigh Brackett
Fool's Coach by Richard Wheeler
Friends by Charles Hackenberry
From Where the Sun Now Stands by Will Henry
The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
Gates of the Mountains by Will Henry
Generations of Men by John Clinton Hunt
The Golden Chance by T. V. Olsen
Gold in California by Todhunter Ballard
Gone the Dreams and Dancing by Douglas C.
Jones
The Great Horse Race by Fred Grove
A Hanging In Sweetwater by Stephen Overholser
Hellfire Jackson by Garland Roark and Charles
Thomas
High Gun by Leslie Ernenwein
The Holdouts by William Decker
Home Mountain by Jeanne Williams
The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout
Horizon by Lee Head
Indian Fighter by F. F. Halloran
I Should Be Extremely Happy In Your Company
by Brian Hall
Journal of the Gun Years by Richard Matheson
Journey by the River by John Prescott
Journey of the Dead by Loren D. Estleman
A Killing in Kiowa by Lewis B. Patten
The Kincaids by Matt Braun
The Kiowa Verdict by Cynthia Haseloff
The Last Days of Wolf Garnett by Clifton Adams
Lawman by Lee Leighton
Leaving Kansas by Frank Roderus
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Long Run by Nelson Nye
Masterson by Richard S. Wheeler
Mattie by Judy Alter
The Medicine Horn by Jory Sherman
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
Moon Trap by Don Berry
Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher
The Nameless Breed by Will C. Brown
Nickajack by Robert J. Conley
Oblivion’s Altar: A Novel of Courage by David
Marion Wilkinson
Panther in the Sky by James Alexander Thom
Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling
Prophet Annie by Ellen Recknor
Rage in Chupadera by Norman Zollinger
The Red Sabbath by Lewis Patten
Riders to Cibola by Norman Zollinger
Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson
Roman by Douglas C. Jones
Sam Bass by Bryan Woolley
Sam Chance by Benjamin Capps
Sanctuary by Gary Svee
The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout
Short Cut to Red River by Noel Loomis
Sierra by Richard S. Wheeler
Silver Mountain by Dan Cushman
Skinwalker by Tony Hillerman
Slaughter by Elmer Kelton
The Snowblind Moon by John Byrne Cook
Somewhere They Die by L.P. Holmes
So Wild A Dream by Win Blevins
The Spirit Horses by Lou Cameron
St. Agnes' Stand by Tom Eidson
Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse
by Win Blevins
Summer of Pearls by Mike Blakely
Swimming Man Burning by Terrence Kilpatrick
Thunder in the Valley by Jim R. Woolard
The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton
The Trail to Ogallala by Benjamin Capps
Tragg's Choice by Clifton Adams
The Valdez Horses by Lee Hoffman
The Valiant Women by Jeanne Williams
The Violent Land by Wayne D. Overholser
Wanderer Springs by Robert Flynn
The Way of the Coyote by Elmer Kelton
The Wheel and the Hearth by Lucia Moore
The White Many Road by Benjamin Capps
The Winter War by William Wister I-lames
The Wolf is My Brother by Chad Oliver
All selections are winners of the Spur Awards,
presented by Western Writers of America