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. 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

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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. 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
     
201. California Song - Jerry Jeff Walker
     
202. Sierra Nevada - Sons of the San Joaquin
     
203. Santa Rosa Serenade - Rich O'Brien
     
204. Get Along Little Dogies- Ramblin' Jack Elliott
     
205. Night Herding Song - Ramblin' Jack Elliot
     
206. Texas 1947 - Guy Clark
     
207. Texas Eagle - Steve Earle
     
208. Santa Fe - Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers
     
209. Along the Santa Fe Trail - Ed McCurdy
     
210. The Texian Boys - John Lomax, Jr.
     
211. I Ride an Old Paint - Cisco Houston
     
212. Boll Weevil Song - Eddie Cochran
     
213. Joe Hill's Ashes - Otis Gibbs
     
214. We'll Be Cattleman - Richmond Fontaine
     
215. Old Paint - Linda Ronstadt