Westerns for those who don't necessarily like westerns

These are non-formula westerns, historical novels about the real West.

Thomas Berger

Little big man

The return of little big man

Michael Blake

Marching to Valhalla: a novel of Custer's last days

George Bowering

Shoot

Harry Combs

The legend of the painted horse

James Fenimore Cooper

The last of the Mohicans

Sandra Dallas

The diary of Mattie Spenser

E L Doctorow

Welcome to hard times

Clyde Edgerton

Redeye

Tom Eidson

All God's children

The last ride

St Agnes' stand

Cormac McCarthy

The Border trilogy:

All the pretty horses

The crossing

Cities of the plain

Larry McMurtry

Comanche moon

Dead man's walk

Lonesome Dove

Streets of Laredo

Zeke and Ned

Dana Fuller Ross

Wagons West series

Glendon Swarthout

The homesman

Trevanian

Incident at Twenty-Mile

Richard S. Wheeler

Second lives

Sun mountain