If you’ve been obsessing over the Dutton family and the subsequent spinoffs from the main show Yellowstone, we’re with you. This year kicked off with a Part One of the final season and some rocky news about when and if we’d get a Part Two. The good news is, we got word this week that production is going to be back underway soon. The bad news… we probably won’t get the finale until November 2024. So in the meantime, give these books a shot that capture the same spirit of the story we’ve all come to love.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
Embark on a final quest with two aging Texas rangers as they navigate the American West in this Pulitzer Prize-winner. In the dusty little town of Lonesome Dove you will meet a memorable and diverse cast of characters that are sure to leave a mark on your heart as you weep and heal alongside them.
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Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
In this near-future novel, queer librarian spies are taking to horseback in order to preserve the written word in a Western landscape. Esther is hiding on a book wagon to avoid the arranged marriage to a man she doesn’t want. He was previously betrothed to her best friend and the love of her life. Now, she’s in league with gunslinging book lovers to defeat a fascist rule.
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The Son by Phillip Myer
When twelve-year-old Eli McCullough’s life takes a tragic turn when Comanche raiders brutally attack his Texas homestead, it sets him on a path of survival and adaptation among his captors. As he navigates the complex realms of loyalty, vengeance, and self-identity, the novel intricately weaves the legacy of his ruthlessness and status across generations, this multigenerational saga follows the rise of one Texan family as they rise to power through the Comanche raids in the 1800s, all the way to the 20th century oil boom.
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Outlawed by Anna North
Ada is seventeen and her life is going seemingly well on the day of her wedding. But after it’s been a year, without a baby to show for it, her fears of being hung as a witch increase. It’s 1894, after all. To save herself, she becomes an outlaw, joining the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, which promises safety for outcast women, but also has a plan that just may kill them all. Outlawed reimagines the old West with a fearless heroine, offering a feminist take on frontier promises and weaving a pulse-racing tale of hope, death, and truth.
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The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
This story highlights a little known corner of the American frontier. Giving the history of African American homesteaders, the novel follows a woman in the early 1900s who moves to the South Dakota Badlands with her family.
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Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
A dazzling epic spanning five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West. Luz “Little Light” Lopez, a tea leaf reader navigating 1930s Denver, becomes the seer of her generation, bearing witness to her family’s origins, survival, and the sinister forces threatening her people. Fajardo-Anstine weaves a transfixing tale of survival, family secrets, and love in this multigenerational western saga.
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Inland by Téa Obreht
In the arid, lawless Arizona Territory of 1893, Nora, an unyielding frontierswoman, awaits the return of her husband and elder sons while fending off her youngest’s fears of a mysterious beast. Simultaneously, Lurie, a former outlaw haunted by ghosts, embarks on an expedition inspired by an unexpected relationship, leading to a surprising intersection with Nora’s plight and the suspenseful heart of this brilliant novel.
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Whiskey When We’re Dry by John Larison
Orphaned in the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney, desperate to find her outlaw brother Noah and fend off starvation, disguises herself and sets off across the mountains. Hired by the violent Governor in her quest, Jess, a skilled sharpshooter, grapples with her brother’s outlaw identity and her own, maneuvering to become a hero in the pursuit of justice and redemption.
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Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West by Christopher Knowlton
Cattle Kingdom delves into the transformative open-range cattle era, revealing its impact on America from dusty cattle drives to bustling boomtowns. Featuring a diverse cast, including cowboy Teddy Blue and future president Teddy Roosevelt, the book offers a revolutionary reassessment of the Old West, echoing the themes of change and legacy that we love in Yellowstone.
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Montana Sky by Nora Roberts
Upon Jack Mercy’s death, his three estranged daughters, born to different mothers and unknown to each other, must live together on his multimillion-dollar ranch for a year to inherit their shares. For Tess, a reluctant screenwriter, it’s a nightmare; for Lily, fleeing an abusive ex-husband, it’s a refuge; and for Willa, who grew up on the ranch, it’s an intrusion. As sisters and strangers, they must put aside bitterness to face the challenge of uniting against a common enemy and protecting each other from looming danger.
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Land Marks by Maryann Lesert
Four college student activists and their mentor professor band together to save their homeland in Michigan. When North American Energy comes and connects a corridor of frack well sites the group sets out to watch and ensure that NorA does not overstep their boundaries and harm the land around them. When NorA begins expanding their fracking it becomes clear that they will not stop, and the activists start their work. But as the group attempts to stop the fracking, one of them gets arrested and another’s past gets revealed. Now they are unsure of who to trust and what is to come. Will love, friendship, and good win or will all be lost for the Michigan forests?
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