The Big Sky is the first of A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s epic adventure novels set in the American West. Here he introduces Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, and Dick Summers: traveling the Missouri River from St. Louis to the Rockies, these frontiersmen live as trappers, traders, guides, and explorers. Caudill...

Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The...

In a small Texas border town, two former Texas Rangers—Augustus “Gus” McCrae and Woodrow Call—run a quiet cattle outfit, their adventurous days seemingly behind them. But when the opportunity arises to drive a herd north to the untamed lands of Montana, Call seizes the chance for one last great...

In the mid-19th century, a wagon train sets out from Missouri toward the promise of Oregon, led by experienced frontiersman Dick Summers. Among the travelers is Lije Evans, a restless farmer seeking a better life for his family, along with others drawn by dreams of land, opportunity, and a fresh...