My favorite books of The West

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

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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. Golden Feather - Robbie Robertson
7. El Paso - Marty Robbins
8. Swept Away - Jon Dee Graham
9. Skinwalker - Robbie Robertson
10. Do Re Mi - Woody Guthrie
11. Route 66 - Nat King Cole
12. Coyotes - Don Edwards
13. Here In California - Kate Wolf
14. Frank's Tavern - Calexico
15. Everett Ruess - Dave Alvin
16. Romance in Durango - Bob Dylan 
17. The Ballad of Edward Abbey - Tom Russell
18. Poor Man's Shangri-La - Ry Cooder
19. Streets of Bakersfield - Buck Owens & Dwight Yoakam
20. Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
21. The Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen
22. Manzanita - Dave Alvin
23. Across The Wire - Calexico
24. Boracho Station - Ryan Bingham
25. El Cerrito Place - Charlie Robison
26. Pancho and Lefty - Townes Van Zandt
27. Llano Estacado - Carrie Rodriguez
28. Waiting For a Train - Jimmie Rodgers
29. Diamonds On My Windshield - Tom Waits
30. King of California - Dave Alvin
31. Let Me Die In My Footsteps - Bob DylanE
32. Rio Grande - Dave Alvin
33. Guadalupe - Tom Russell
34. A Horse With No Name - America
35. Everett Ruess - Dana Robinson and Susan Robinson 
36. California Snow - Dave Alvin
37. Ballad For A Friend - Bob Dylan
38. Ventura - Lucinda Williams
39. California - Jay Farrar
40. Quick Sand - Ry Cooder
41. Way Out West - Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives 
42. Rocky Mountain High - John Denver
43. Old California Town - Larry Robinson 
44. Bisbee Blue - Calexico
45. Out in California - Dave Alvin
46. Texas Love Song - Slaid Cleaves 
47. Streets of Laredo - Don Edwards
48. John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan
49. On the Old Spanish Trail - Tommy Garrett
50. LA Woman - The Doors
51. 3rd Base, Dodger Stadium - Ry Cooder
52. Time Spent in Los Angeles - Dawes
53. I Left My Heart in San Francisco - Tony Bennett
54. Arizona - Kings of Leon
55. Topanga Cowgirl - Mudcrutch
56. Border Town Girl - Los Lobos 
57. Ventura Highway - America
58. Men of the Fields - David Baumgarten
59. The Promised Land - Bruce Springsteen
60. Kern River - Merle Haggard
61. Tonight We Ride - Tom Russell
62. Big Iron - Marty Robbins
63. South of the River - Ray Wylie Hubbard 
64. Arizona - Alejandro Escovedo
65. Home on the Range - Roy Rogers
66. Santa Ana Wind - Tom Russell
67. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky- Johnny Cash
68. Arizona Skies - Los Lobos
69. Red Hills Of Utah- Marty Robbins
70. Flores Y Tamales - Calexico 
    
71. Levelland- James McMurtry
72. L.A. County - Lyle Lovett
73. San Franciscan Nights - Eric Burdon & The Animals
74. Monterey - Eric Burdon
75. 405 - Death Cab For Cutie
76. Tumbling Tumbleweeds- Frankie Laine
77. Viva Las Vegas - Elvis Presley
78. All Along the Watchtower- Bob Dylan
79. San Ber'dino - Frank Zappa
80. Which Way Does That Old Pony Run? - Lyle Lovett
81. Texan Love Song - Elton John
82. Ballad of Ira Hayes - Johnny Cash
83. I Love LA - Randy Newman
84. LA Freeway - Guy Clark
85. Benediction: Edward Abbey - Tom Russell
86. Esperanza - Calexico 
87. Ramon Casiano - Drive-by Truckers
88. Santa Fe - Bob Dylan and The Band
89. 99 Miles From LA - Art Garfunkel
90. The Wild Escalante - Walkin' Jim Stoltz
    
91. California Stars - Billy Bragg & Wilco
92. High on Tulsa Heat - John Moreland 
93. Willin' - Little Feat
94. Slowness - Calexico
95. House of Earth - Lucinda Williams 
96. Santa Fe - Rent Original Cast
97. Beehive State - Randy Newman
98. Hotel Arizona - Wilco
99. California Girls - Beach Boys
100. Princess of Fresno - Echo Sparks
101. New Mexico - Johnny Cash
102. Headin' For The Texas Border - Flamin' Groovies
103. Montana - Frank Zappa 
104. Headin' Down The Rio Grande - Jimmy Luttrell
105. Lost on the Desert - Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives 
106. The History of Utah - Camper Van Beethoven
107. New Mexico - Jack Nitzsche
108. Steinbeck's Ghost - Larry Robinson 
109. Taos - The Rippingtons featuring Russ Freeman
110. Cumbia de Donde - Calexico 
111. Albuquerque - Neil Young 
112. Sunrise At Four Corners - Eric Tingstad
113. Arches National Park - Michael Zampi
114. Black Mesa - Bill Webb
115. The Free Mexican Air Force - Flaco Jimenez
116. Taos, New Mexico - Waylon Jennings
117. Lights Of Santa Fe - Eliza Gilkyson
118. Nevada - Riders In The Sky
119. Albuquerque - Asleep at The Wheel
120. Oklahoma Hills - Woody Guthrie
121. California - Mojave
122. California Sun - The Rivieras
123. Whittier Blvd. - Thee Midniters
124. Montana Song - David Ackles 
125. Big Sky Country - Chris Whitley
126. Screw You, We're From Texas - Ray Wylie Hubbard 
127. Lobo Town - James McMurtry 
128. Snow in San Anselmo - Van Morrison 
129. The West Side - Carrie Rodriguez
130. Tamale House #1 - Jon Dee Graham
131. Leavin' Texas - Jerry Jeff Walker 
132. Desert Song - Dean Owens
133. Born in East L.A. - Cheech and Chong
134. Voices in the Field - Calexico
135. Salinas Valley - David Baumgarten 
136. Horizontal - Alejandro Escovedo
137. Big Sky Country - Chris Whitley