Crooked trails vs Other Main Traveled Roads: Which Should You Read?

Both live on shelves: Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns, Social life and customs, Fiction

Cover of Crooked trails

Crooked trails Frederic Remington · 1898 ★★★★☆ 3.7 150 pages · ≈ 2 h 47 m · Challenging Find on Amazon

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Cover of Other Main Traveled Roads

Other Main Traveled Roads Hamlin Garland · 1910 ★★★★☆ 3.7 349 pages · ≈ 6 h 28 m · Challenging Find on Amazon

The verdict

Ratings are close: 3.7 vs 3.7 — either is a safe pick by score.
Crooked trails is the quicker read — about 2 hours vs 6 for Other Main Traveled Roads.

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