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  1. Desert Solitaire- Edward Abbey 
  2. The Voice of the Desert - ​Joseph Wood Krutch
  3. The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
  4. On The Road- Jack Kerouac
  5. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
  6. Down the River - Edward Abbey
  7. Lasso the Wind - Timothy Egan 
  8. Walking It Off - Doug Peacock
  9. Cities of Gold - Douglas Preston
  10. Blue Desert - Charles Bowden 
  11. Dead Man's Float - Jim Harrison 
  12. The River Why - David James Duncan
  13. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  14. Land of Little Rain - Mary Austin
  15. The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
  16. Bless Me Ultima- Rudolfo Anaya
  17. All the Wild and Lonely Places - Lawrence Hogue
  18. Bound For Glory - Woody Guthrie
  19. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West - Wallace Stegner
  20. The Desert - John C. Van Dyke
  21. The Human Comedy - William Saroyan
  22. Big Sur - Jack Kerouac
  23. Going Back to Bisbee - Richard Shelton
  24. The Red Caddy: Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey - Charles Bowden
  25. Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
  26. One Life at a Time, Please - Edward Abbey
  27. Everett Ruess: A Vagabond For Beauty - Everett Ruess
  28. My First Summer In The Sierra- John Muir
  29. The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
  30. Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder- Kent Nerburn 
  31. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History - Dan Flores 
  32. Crown Jewel Wilderness - Lauren Danner 
  33. Ask The Dust - John Fante
  34. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
  35. Grizzly Years - Doug Peacock
  36. Confessions of a Barbarian - Edward Abbey 
  37. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
  38. Sweet Thursday - John Steinbeck 
  39. Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert - Terry Tempest Williams
  40. Where Water Comes Together With Other Water - Raymond Carver
  41. God Is Red: A Native View of Religion - Vine Deloria, Jr.
  42. The Mountains of California - John Muir
  43. Death Comes For the Archbishop - Willa Cather
  44. The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 
  45. Once They Moved Like The Wind: Cochise, Geronimo And The Apache Wars -David Roberts
  46. The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience - J.S. Holliday
  47. The Log of the Sea of Cortez - John Steinbeck
  48. Ceremony- Leslie Marmon Silko
  49. The Desert Smells Like Rain- A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country - Gary Paul Nabhan
  50. Native Roads: The Complete Motoring Guide to the Navajo and Hopi Nations - Fran Kosik
  51. The Devil's Highway - Luis Urrea
  52. Los Angeles Stories - Ry Cooder
  53. The Journey Home-Some Words In Defense Of The West - Edward Abbey
  54. Motel Chronicles - Sam Shepard
  55. Slumgullion Stew - Edward Abbey
  56. The Man Who Killed The Deer- Frank Waters
  57. Abbey's Road - Edward Abbey
  58. The Spell Of New Mexico - Tony Hillerman
  59. Brown Dog - Jim Harrison 
  60. Across the Wide Missouri - Bernard De Voto
  61. Black Mesa Poems - Jimmy Santiago Baca
  62. Riders Of The Purple Sage - Zane Grey
  63. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West- Cormac McCarthy
  64. California: A History - Kevin Starr
  65. The Road to Los Angeles- John Fante
  66. The Way to Rainy Mountain - N. Scott Momaday
  67. Go In Beauty - William Eastlake
  68. House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest - Craig Childs 
  69. The Big Sky - A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
  70. Down By The River - Charles Bowden
  71. Hondo - Louis L'Amour
  72. Wait Until Spring, Bandini - John Fante
  73. Cactus Country - Edward Abbey
  74. The Sonoran Desert  - Charles Bowden
  75. It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own - Robert White 
  76. Skinwalkers - Tony Hillerman
  77. The General and The Jaguar: Pershing's Hunt For Pancho Villa - Eileen Welsome
  78. Border Patrol Nation - Dispatches From the Front Lines of Homeland Security - Todd Miller
  79. Plainsong - Kent Haruf
  80. Chavez Ravine 1949: A Los Angeles Story - Don Normark
  81. Crossing Open Ground - Barry Lopez
  82. Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story - Oliver La Farge
  83. Islands In The Sky: Chiricahua Mountains - Weldon Heald
  84. Carver Country-The World of Raymond Carver - Bob Adelman
  85. The Southwest Inside And Out - Thomas Wiewandt
  86. Norman Clyde: Legendary Mountaineer - Robert C. Pavlik
  87. The Emerald Mile - Kevin Fedarko 
  88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Hunter S. Thompson
  89. Dreams From Bunker Hill - John Fante
  90. Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck
  91. Adventures with Ed - Jack Loeffler
  92. Missing in the Minarets - William Alsup
  93. Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement - Susan Zakin
  94. Brighty of the Grand Canyon- Marguerite Henry
  95. McTeague- A Story of San Francisco - Frank Norris
  96. Hayduke Lives! - Edward Abbey
  97. Rock Springs - Richard Ford
  98. Mormon Country - Wallace Stegner
  99. Finding Everett Ruess - David Roberts
  100. Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast - Edward Abbey
  101. In Dubious Battle - John Steinbeck
  102. One Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays From the World at Large - Chris LaTray 
  103. Four Corners: History, Land, and People of the Southwest - Kenneth A, Brown 
  104. No Place For A Puritan - Ruth Nolan
  105. Cadillac Desert - Marc Reisner
  106. The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality - Belden Lane
  107. On the Loose - Renny Russell
  108. The Ancient Southwest - David W. Stuart
  109. Woody Guthrie L.A. 1937-1941 - Darryl Holter
  110. Great Plains - Ian Frazier
  111. Burro Genius - Victor Villasenor
  112. Men to Match My Mountains - Irving Stone
  113. The Apache Wars - Paul Andrew Hutton
  114. The North American Indian - Edward S. Curtis
  115. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher - Tim Egan
  116. A Journey into Steinbeck's California - Susan Shillinglaw
  117. The Disappearances: A Story of Exploration, Murder and Mystery in the American West- Scott Thybony
  118. Road Angels: Searching for Home Down America's Coast of Dreams - Kent Nerburn
  119. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven - Sherman Alexie
  120. Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave - Sean Prentiss
  121. Fire on the Mountain - Ed Abbey
  122. A Distant Trumpet - Paul Horgan
  123. Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast - Edward Abbey 
  124. Black Sun - Edward Abbey 
  125. Indian Wars of 1864 - Eugene Fitch Ware


Favorite Songs of The West

  1. ​Ballad of Easy Rider - The Byrds
  2. Out On The Weekend - Neil Young
  3. Southside of Heaven - Ryan Bingham
  4. Dirty Chateau - Ry Cooder
  5. Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) - Woody Guthrie
  6. Blue Yodel #1  (T for Texas) - Jimmie Rodgers
  7. Golden Feather - Robbie Robertson
  8. El Paso - Marty Robbins
  9. Coyote, My Little Brother - Pete Seeger
  10. When the Cactus is in Bloom - Jimmy Rodgers
  11. Swept Away - Jon Dee Graham
  12. Hello Sunshine - Bruce Springsteen
  13. Billy 7 - Bob Dylan 
  14. Skinwalker - Robbie Robertson
  15. Do Re Mi - Woody Guthrie
  16. Route 66 - Nat King Cole
  17. Coyotes - Don Edwards
  18. Here In California - Kate Wolf
  19. Frank's Tavern - Calexico
  20. Everett Ruess - Dave Alvin
  21. By a Campfire on the Trail - Sons of the Pioneers
  22. Angel Island - The Brother Brothers
  23. The Redtail Hawk - Kate Wolf and the Wildwood Flower
  24. Romance in Durango - Bob Dylan 
  25. The Ballad of Edward Abbey - Tom Russell
  26. Poor Man's Shangri-La - Ry Cooder
  27. Streets of Bakersfield - Buck Owens & Dwight Yoakam
  28. Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
  29. The Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen
  30. Manzanita - Dave Alvin
  31. Across The Wire - Calexico
  32. Boracho Station - Ryan Bingham
  33. El Cerrito Place - Charlie Robison
  34. Pancho and Lefty - Townes Van Zandt
  35. Llano Estacado - Carrie Rodriguez
  36. Waiting For a Train - Jimmie Rodgers
  37. The Crossing - Alejandro Escovedo 
  38. Diamonds On My Windshield - Tom Waits
  39. King of California - Dave Alvin
  40. Santa Fe - Samantha Crain
  41. Let Me Die In My Footsteps - Bob Dylan
  42. Western Stars - Bruce Springsteen 
  43. Rio Grande - Dave Alvin
  44. Guadalupe - Tom Russell
  45. A Horse With No Name - America
  46. Everett Ruess - Dana Robinson and Susan Robinson 
  47. California Snow - Dave Alvin
  48. Ballad For A Friend - Bob Dylan
  49. The Book - Carter Burwell
  50. Ventura - Lucinda Williams
  51. California - Jay Farrar
  52. Quick Sand - Ry Cooder
  53. Way Out West - Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives 
  54. Rocky Mountain High - John Denver
  55. Old California Town - Larry Robinson 
  56. Bisbee Blue - Calexico
  57. Out in California - Dave Alvin
  58. Texas - Tami Neilson
  59. Western Stars - Bruce Springsteen
  60. Texas Love Song - Slaid Cleaves 
  61. Streets of Laredo - Don Edwards
  62. John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan
  63. On the Old Spanish Trail - Tommy Garrett
  64. When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings  - Willie Watson & Tim Blake Nelson
  65. LA Woman - The Doors
  66. 3rd Base, Dodger Stadium - Ry Cooder
  67. Desperado - The Cactus Blossoms 
  68. Time Spent in Los Angeles - Dawes
  69. I Left My Heart in San Francisco - Tony Bennett
  70. Arizona - Kings of Leon
  71. Topanga Cowgirl - Mudcrutch
  72. Border Town Girl - Los Lobos 
  73. Ventura Highway - America
  74. Men of the Fields - David Baumgarten
  75. The Promised Land - Bruce Springsteen
  76. Kern River - Merle Haggard
  77. Lilly, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts - Bob Dylan 
  78. Tonight We Ride - Tom Russell
  79. Big Iron - Marty Robbins
  80. South of the River - Ray Wylie Hubbard 
  81. Arizona - Alejandro Escovedo
  82. Home on the Range - Roy Rogers
  83. Santa Ana Wind - Tom Russell
  84. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky- Johnny Cash
  85. Arizona Skies - Los Lobos
  86. Red Hills Of Utah- Marty Robbins
  87. Sleepy Joe's Cafe - Bruce Springsteen 
  88. Flores Y Tamales - Calexico 
  89. Sand and Stone - Dylan LeBlanc
  90. Levelland- James McMurtry
  91. L.A. County - Lyle Lovett
  92. San Franciscan Nights - Eric Burdon & The Animals
  93. Monterey - Eric Burdon
  94. 405 - Death Cab For Cutie
  95. Tumbling Tumbleweeds- Frankie Laine
  96. Viva Las Vegas - Elvis Presley
  97. Border Radio - Dave Alvin
  98. All Along the Watchtower- Bob Dylan
  99. I Am California - John Craigie
  100. San Ber'dino - Frank Zappa
  101. Which Way Does That Old Pony Run? - Lyle Lovett
  102. Texan Love Song - Elton John
  103. Ballad of Ira Hayes - Johnny Cash
  104. In the Western Wind and the Sunrise - Dave Simonett
  105. Albuquerque Lullabye - Dan Bern 
  106. I Love LA - Randy Newman
  107. Telluride - Kate Wolf and The Wildwood Flower 
  108. LA Freeway - Guy Clark
  109. Benediction: Edward Abbey - Tom Russell
  110. Esperanza - Calexico 
  111. Ramon Casiano - Drive-by Truckers
  112. Senor - Bob Dylan 
  113. Colorado Trail - Roy Rogers
  114. Santa Fe - Bob Dylan and The Band
  115. 99 Miles From LA - Art Garfunkel
  116. The Wild Escalante - Walkin' Jim Stoltz
  117. California Stars - Billy Bragg & Wilco
  118. High on Tulsa Heat - John Moreland 
  119. Willin' - Little Feat
  120. Slowness - Calexico
  121. House of Earth - Lucinda Williams 
  122. Santa Fe - Rent Original Cast
  123. Beehive State - Randy Newman
  124. Happy Trails - Roy Rogers
  125. Hotel Arizona - Wilco
  126. California Girls - Beach Boys
  127. Princess of Fresno - Echo Sparks
  128. Texas Easy Street - Don Flemons 
  129. New Mexico - Johnny Cash
  130. Alone in Arizona - John Doe
  131. Headin' For The Texas Border - Flamin' Groovies
  132. Montana - Frank Zappa 
  133. Headin' Down The Rio Grande - Jimmy Luttrell
  134. Lost on the Desert - Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives 
  135. The History of Utah - Camper Van Beethoven
  136. California (Cast Iron Soul) - Jamestown Revival
  137. Whispering Journeys - Robert Tree Cody
  138. New Mexico - Jack Nitzsche
  139. Steinbeck's Ghost - Larry Robinson 
  140. Taos - The Rippingtons featuring Russ Freeman
  141. Cumbia de Donde - Calexico 
  142. Albuquerque - Neil Young 
  143. Sunrise At Four Corners - Eric Tingstad
  144. Arches National Park - Michael Zampi
  145. Black Mesa - Bill Webb
  146. The Free Mexican Air Force - Flaco Jimenez
  147. Taos, New Mexico - Waylon Jennings
  148. Lights Of Santa Fe - Eliza Gilkyson
  149. Nevada - Riders In The Sky
  150. Albuquerque - Asleep at The Wheel
  151. Oklahoma Hills - Woody Guthrie
  152. California Dreamin' - Mamas and Papas 
  153. Billy the Kid & Geronimo - Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore 
  154. California - Mojave
  155. White Freightliner Blues - Lyle Lovett
  156. California Sun - The Rivieras
  157. Goodbye Old Paint - Dom Flemons
  158. Whittier Blvd. - Thee Midniters
  159. Montana Song - David Ackles 
  160. Big Sky Country - Chris Whitley
  161. Silver City - Alejandro Escovedo 
  162. Screw You, We're From Texas - Ray Wylie Hubbard 
  163. Lobo Town - James McMurtry 
  164. Snow in San Anselmo - Van Morrison 
  165. The West Side - Carrie Rodriguez
  166. Tamale House #1 - Jon Dee Graham
  167. Leavin' Texas - Jerry Jeff Walker 
  168. Hollywood - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  169. Desert Song - Dean Owens
  170. Born in East L.A. - Cheech and Chong
  171. California - Joni Mitchell 
  172. Voices in the Field - Calexico
  173. Salinas Valley - David Baumgarten 
  174. Horizontal - Alejandro Escovedo
  175. Borderline - Slaid Cleaves 
  176. Big Sky Country - Chris Whitley
  177. Belle of the West - Samantha Fish 
  178. California - Steph Jenkins
  179. Wildflower Perfume - The Dead Tongues 
  180. Depreston - Courtney Barnett 
  181. Snowin' on Raton - Townes Van Zandt 
  182. Texas Flyer - Freddie King 
  183. Texas Is My Mother - Alejandro Escovedo 
  184. Away Out on a Mountain - Jimmie Rodgers 
  185. Texas Top Hand - Don Walser
  186. Downey to Lubbock - Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore 
  187. Fairest of Them All - Slaid Cleaves 
  188. Pelican Bay - Jenny Lewis
  189. Albuquerque - Dave Alvin
  190. The Ballad of Lonesome Cowboy Bill - Amanda Fish 
  191. Route 66 - The Replacements 
  192. The Golden Voice of Vin Scully - Dan Bern 
  193. Tucson Train - Bruce Springsteen
  194. Lawrence of California - Mekons
  195. Nevada, California - The Jayhawks
  196. Nowhere but Barstow and Prison - The Prison Project
  197. Route 101 - Herb Alpert
  198. Maggie - Sarah Jarosz
  199. In the Western Wind and the Sunrise - Dave Simonett
  200. Santa Ana Wind - Tom Russell
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