📚 Westerns

The frontier as myth and as industry: cowboys, outlaws, and the genre’s long reckoning with both.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject western stories in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Donnegan	Frederick Faust	1923	351
	Black Jack	Frederick Faust	1970	335
	A Deal In Wheat And Other Stories	Frank Norris	1903	95
	All the Pretty Horses	Cormac McCarthy	1992	54
	Rogue River feud	Zane Grey	1929	38
	Lost Pueblo	Zane Grey	1927	36
	The Daybreakers	Louis L'Amour	1960	34
	Hondo	Louis L'Amour	1953	30
	Sally Dows	Bret Harte	1887	29
	Condensed novels	Bret Harte	1867	27
	True Grit	Charles Portis	1968	26
	Lonesome Dove	Larry McMurtry	1985	26
	Quattro topi nel Far West!	Elisabetta Dami	2005	22
	Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life	Stewart Edward White	1904	15
	Ramrod	Luke Short	1943	15
	Texas! Chase	Sandra Brown	1991	14
	Texas! Sage	Sandra Brown	1991	14
	Butcher's Crossing	John Williams	1960	12
	The Water Knife	Paolo Bacigalupi	2015	12
	Money magic	Hamlin Garland	1907	11
	Hidden Creek	Katharine Newlin Burt	1920	10
	The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard	Elmore Leonard	2004	10
	Autumn Lover	Elizabeth Lowell	1996	9
	The deserters	Luke Short	1969	5
	Stories of the Golden West	Jon Tuska	2000	5
	The Wildcats	John Thomas Edson	1972	4
	Spur	Dirk Fletcher	1989	4
	And One Rode West	Heather Graham	1992	4
	The Drifter	Lori Copeland	2004	4
	The Texas Brides Collection	Darlene Franklin	2013	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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