| Suggestions for “the Western Experience” titles from the Colorado Library Community | ||
| gathered via libnet 8/25/05 through 9/5/05 | ||
| Author | Title | |
| Abbey, Edward | Desert Solitaire | |
| Adams, Ansel | Photographs | |
| Alexie, Sherman | Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | |
| Ambrose, Stephen | Undaunted Courage | |
| Anaya, Rudolfo | Bless Me Ultima | |
| Athearn, Robert G. | Union Pacific Country | |
| Backus, Harriet Fish | Tomboy Bride | |
| Bain, David H. |
Old Iron Road | |
| Baum, Frank L. | the Wizard of Oz | |
| Becher, Cynthia S. and P. David Smith | Chipeta, Queen of the Utes | |
| Benet, Stephen Vincent | John Brown's Body | |
| Bird, Isabella L. | A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains | |
| Black, Robert C. | Island in the Sky | |
| Borland, Hal | High, Wide, and Lonesome | |
| Borland, Hal | When the Legends Die | |
| Brett, Jan | Armadillo Rodeo | J |
| Brown, Dee | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | |
| Carter, Forrest | Watch for Me on the Mountain | |
| Cather, Willa | Song of the Lark | |
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia | |
| Cather, Willa | Death comes to the Archbishop | |
| Cather, Willa | O Pioneers! | |
| Chavez, Denise | Face of an Angel | |
| Childs, Craig | Secret Knowledge of Water | |
| Cisneros, Sandra | Woman hollering creek | |
| Clark, Walter VanTillburg | Oxbow Incident | |
| Clemens, Samuel | Huckleberry Finn | |
| Colorado Historical Society | Western Voices: 125 years of Colorado writing | |
| Cornelle, Virginia | Doc Susie: the true story of a country physician in the Colorado Rockies | |
| Creel, Ann Howard | Magic of Ordinary Days | |
| Dallas, Sandra | Diary of Mattie Spencer | |
| Dary, David | Santa Fe Trail | |
| Deckers, Peter | Old Fences, New Neighbors | |
| Doig, Ivan | House of Sky | |
| Doig, Ivan | English Creek | |
| Edwards, Judith | Lewis and Clark's journey of discovery in American history | |
| Egan, Timothy | Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West | |
| Erhlich, Gretel | Solaces of Open Spaces | |
| Erickson, Jon | Hank the Cowdog | J |
| Edrrich, Louise | The BirchBark House | |
| Etcheson, Nicole | Bleeding Kansas | |
| Ferber, Edna | So Big | |
| Fielder, Henry and Jackson, W.H. | Colorado 1870-2000 | |
| Fitzgerald, John | The Great Brain | |
| Galvin, James | Meadow | |
| Galvin, James | Fencing the Sky | |
| Gardner, Rulon | Never Stop Pushing | |
| Guthrie, A.B., Jr. | Big Sky | |
| Harrison, Jim | Dalva | |
| Harrison, Jim | Road Home | |
| Haruf, Ken | Plainsong | |
| Hawken, Paul | The Ecology of Commerce | |
| James, Will | Smokey the Cowhorse | |
| Johnson, Dirk | Biting the dust: the wild ride and dark romance of the rodeo cowboy and the American West | |
| Josephy, Alvin | Civil War in the American West | |
| Keltz, Iris | Scrapbook of a Taos Hippie | |
| Kerouac, Jack | Dharma Bums | |
| Ketteman, Helen | Bubba the Cowboy Prince | J |
| Kingsolver, Barbara Kingsolver, Barbara |
Bean Trees Pigs in Heaven |
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| Kogawa, Joy | Obasan | |
| Kruger, Frances Alley | Explore Colorado: a naturalist's notebook | |
| Kukla, Jon | A Wilderness So Immense | |
| Laman, Russell | Mainfest Destiny | |
| Laubin, Reginald | Indian Tipi: It's History, Construction and Use | |
| Lavender, Dave | David Lavender's Colorado | |
| Lavender, Dave | Rockies | |
| Lavender, Dave | One Man's West | |
| Lavender, Dave | Bent's Fort | |
| Lavender, Dave | Great West | |
| Lavender, Dave | Big Divide | |
| Lavender, Dave | Red Mountain | |
| Lavender, Dave | Trail to Santa Fe | |
| Lavender, Dave | Southwest | |
| Letts, Billie | Where the Heart Is | |
| Levy, JoAnne | For California's Gold | |
| Levy, Leonard Williams | Origin of the Bill of Rights | |
| Limerick, Patricia | Legacy of Conquest: the unbroken past of the American West | |
| London, Jack | Call of the Wild | |
| Lopez, Barry | Crow and Weasel | |
| Lopez, Barry | Crossing Open Ground | |
| Lowell, Susan | Three Little Javalinas | J |
| Lynes, Barbara | Georgia, O'Keefe and New Mexico | |
| MacLean, Norman | Young Men and Fire | |
| MacLean, Norman | A River Runs Through It and Other Stories | |
| Martin, Bill | Knots on a Counting Rope | J |
| McCain, Nancy | Leadville | |
| McCollum, David | Truman | |
| McMurtry, Larry | Roads: Driving America's Great Highways | |
| McMurtry, Larry | Lonesome Dove | |
| McPhee, John | Rising from the Plains | |
| McPhee, John | Basin and Range | |
| Michener, James | Centennial | |
| Miller, Robert | Reflections of a Black Cowboy | |
| Momaday, N. Scott | House Made of Dawn | |
| Moody, Ralph | Little Britches | |
| Moon, Willian Least Heat | Blue Highways | |
| Morris, Willie | Taps | |
| Muir, John | My first summer in the Sierra | |
| Neihardt, John G. | Black Elk Speaks | |
| Nichols, John | Milagro Beanfield War | |
| O'Brien, Dan | In the Center of the Nation | |
| Otsuka, Julie | When the Emperor Was Divine | |
| Peck, Robert Newton | Soup | J |
| Pettit, Jan | Utes: the mountain people | |
| Powell, John Wesley | Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons | |
| Preston, Douglas | Talking to the Ground: one family's journy on horseback across the sacred land of the Navajos | |
| Proulx, Annie | Close Range and Bad Dirt | |
| Reisner, Marc | Cadillac Desert | |
| Richter, Conrad | Sea of Grass | |
| Robbins, Tom | Even Cowgirls Gets the Blues | |
| Robinson, Gerald H. | Elusive Truth:: Four Photographers at Manzanar | |
| Rolvaag, O.E. | Giants in the Earth | |
| Rossiter, Clinton | American Presidency | 1959! |
| Sandoz, Mari | Cheyenne Autumn | |
| Sandoz, Mari | Crazy Horse | |
| Sandweiss, Martha | Print the Legend | |
| Schlsissel, Lillian | Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey | |
| Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airpot | J |
| Silko, Leslie Marmon | Ceremony | |
| Snyder, Gary | Gary Snyder Reader | |
| Spragg, Mark | Where Rivers Change Direction | |
| Stansfield, John | Writers of the American West: Multicultural Learning Encounters | |
| Stegner, Wallace | The Sounds of Mountain Water | |
| Stegner, Wallace | Beyond the Hundredth Meridian | |
| Stegner, Wallace | Angle of Repose | |
| Stegner, Wallace | Wilderness Letter | |
| Steinbeck, John | Cannery Row | |
| Steinbeck, John | Grapes of Wrath | |
| Steward, George R. | Ordeal by Hunger | |
| Stone, Irving | Men to Match My Mountains | |
| Storm, Hyemeyohsts | Seven Arrows | |
| Stratton, Joanna | Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier | |
| Stutson, Caroline | Cowpoke | |
| Terkel, Studs | American Dreams: Lost and Found | |
| Tunnell, Michael O. | Mailing May | J |
| Turner, Nancy E. | These is my words: the diary of Sarah Agnes Prine 1881-1901 Arizona Territories | |
| Utley, Robert | Lance and the Shield (biography of Sitting Bull) | |
| Utley, Robert | Frontiersmen in Blue: the United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 | |
| Waters, Frank | Woman at Otowi Crossing | |
| Waters, Frank | Man Who Killed the Deer | |
| Waters, Frank Watson, Larry Watson, Larry |
People of the Valley Montana 1948: a novel Justice |
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| Williams, Terry Tempest | Reguge: an unnatural history of family and place | |
| Wilmsen, Steven | Silverado: Neil Bush and Savings and Loan Scandal | |
| Wister, Owen | Virginian | |
| Worster, Donald | A River Running West: the life of John Wesley Powell | |
| Zinn, Howard | People's History of the United States | |
| Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide to the Southern Rockies |