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30 Best Western & Frontier Historical Novels in American History

Western and frontier fiction examines settlement, mobility, violence and cultural contact in contested borderlands. The genre includes the American West but can also accommodate other historical frontiers where authority and community remain unsettled.

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American History 1607–1912 CE 51 books Asia & the Islamic World 221 BCE–1,997 CE 1 book Tudor & Stuart Britain 1485–1714 CE 2 books Georgian & Regency Britain 1714–1837 CE 1 book Age of Revolutions 1763–1848 CE 3 books Nineteenth-Century Europe 1815–1900 CE 5 books World War I & Interwar Era 1914–1939 CE 3 books World War II 1939–1945 CE 1 book Cold War and Post-war Era 1945–1991 CE 3 books

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30 Western & Frontier Fiction books in American History

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