Spur Awards
The Spur Awards are given annually for distinguished writing about the American West.
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Staff PickLonesome Dove : a novel2000
Summary: A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever... more »- place hold (0)
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The great believers2018
Summary: "A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai In 1985, Yale... more »- place hold (0)
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Off the grid : a Joe Pickett novel2016
Summary: Joe Pickett's old friend Nate Romanowski is off the grid, recuperating from wounds and lying low while the FBI search for him. But they are not the only ones looking for him and Nate finds himself... more »- place hold (0)
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Paradise sky2015
Summary: On the run after an infamous landowner murders his father, Willie becomes an expert marksman before turning Buffalo Soldier, befriending Wild Bill Hickok and earning the nickname "Deadwood Dick."- place hold (0)
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The time it never rained1984
Summary: To the ranchers and farmers of 1950s Texas, man's biggest enemy is one he can't control. With their entire livelihood pegged on the chance of a wet year or a dry year, drought has the ability to... more »- place hold (0)
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Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI2017
Summary: In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built... more »- place hold (0)
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Undaunted courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West1996
Summary: From the bestselling author of the definitive book on D-Day comes the definitive book on the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. In 1803... more »- place hold (0)
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Moon over Manifest2010
Summary: Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickWalk on Earth a stranger2015
Summary: Lee Westfall, a young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold, must flee her home to avoid people who would abuse her powers, so when her best friend Jefferson heads out across... more »- place hold (0)
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Comanche moon : a novel1997
Summary: Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry, a brilliant and haunting novel richly capable of standing on its own, completes the author's epic four-volume cycle of novels of the American West that began in 1985... more »- place hold (0)
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The line becomes a river : dispatches from the border2018
Summary: For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth,... more »- place hold (0)
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The miracle life of Edgar Mint : a novel2002
Summary: Fictional Novel, General Fiction - Amazon- place hold (0)
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Light of the world2013
Summary: Police detective Dave Robicheaux faces off with the most diabolical villain he has ever faced in the twentieth installment of the Dave Robicheaux series. A summer getaway in Montana for Dave... more »- place hold (0)
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The last midwife2015
Summary: "It is 1880 and Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town where she has delivered hundreds, maybe thousands, of babies in her lifetime. She is a gifted and important resource... more »- place hold (0)
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Great plains1989
Summary: With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier captures the essence of the Great Plains, driving 25,000 miles up and down and across this section of the country which most travelers fly over. - Amazon- place hold (0)
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Far North1996
Summary: After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories.- place hold (0)
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Crazy mountain kiss : a Sean Stranahan mystery2015
Summary: "It's April, but there's still snow on the Montana mountains the day a member of the Madison River Liar and Fly Tiers club finds a Santa hat in the chimney of his rented cabin. With the flue clogged... more »- place hold (0)
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Shot all to hell : Jesse James, the Northfield raid, and the wild West's greatest escape2014
Summary: Recounts the life of Jesse James, Frank James, the Younger brothers, and the most famous bank robbery of all time--the Northfield raid--which led to a two-week chase ending with the final shootout on the Watonwan River.- place hold (0)
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Black Elk : the life of an American visionary2016
Summary: "Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the poet John G. Neihardt from a series of interviews... more »- place hold (0)
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Jack London : an American life2013
Summary: "The first authorized biography of a great American novelist"--- place hold (0)
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The way of the coyote2001
Summary: The Civil War has ended, and Union soldiers and federal officials have taken control of Texas as Rusty Shannon rides to his home on the Colorado River. As a child he was a captive of the Comanche, as... more »- place hold (0)
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Cherokee America2019
Summary: From Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble, a multilayered, wholly original epic of the American frontier A baby, a black hired hand, a bay horse, a gun, and a neighbor have all gone missing in the... more »E-AUDIOBOOK
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The gates of the mountains2001
Summary: "A born storyteller, a man strengthened with the uncommon melody of language, a literary outrider using his bend to describe in fiction the West that was." - True West. President Thomas Jefferson... more »- place hold (0)
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Cowboys, Indians, and gunfighters : the story of the cattle kingdom1993
Summary: Describes life in the American West and the growth of the cattle industry, from the introduction of horses and cattle by the Spanish through the reign of the cattle barons in the late nineteenth century.- place hold (0)
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On swift horses2019
Summary: "Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her... more »- place hold (0)
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This Strange Wilderness2015
Summary: Birds were "the objects of my greatest delight," wrote John James Audubon (1785–1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world; s greatest bird painters. His masterpiece, The Birds... more »EBOOK
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Crazy Horse : A Lakota Life
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Danger Along The Ohio
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Remember Ben Clayton : A Novel
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The Night Birds
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With Blood In Their Eyes
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