American Roadtrip wrote:
Out of all the books I have read through my life, since we have been in the south I have been reading cowboy stories to go along with the southwestern backdrop. Louis Lamour has some good ones, but once and a while some of them seem like romance novels. Ray Hogan is good. Also surprisingly the Little House on the Prairie books are great accounts of pioneer life. I'm 44 so a lot of it is nostalgia. I was reading Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sayer when we were in the southeast. I also am looking for good books on frontier life, as I am searching for a way to somehow find a happy medium between that and modern life.
Look to larry McMurtry for really interesting takes on the frontier. Look back several pages I listed several of his books. He wrote Lonesome Dove.