18 books like As the Crow Flies

What to read after As the Crow Flies — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Cold Dish

The Cold Dish Craig Johnson · 2006 · ★ 4.5 Introducing Wyoming’s Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from New York Times bestselling author Craig Johnson—the first in the Longmire mystery seriesThe hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and Robert B. Parker will love this outstanding first novel, in which Craig Johnson draws on his deep attachment to the American West to produce a… Shares Longmire, Indians of North America

The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones · 2019 · ★ 4.0 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Ten years ago outside Browning, Montana, four Blackfeet shot some elk, and then went on with their lives. It happens every year, it’s been happening forever, it’s the way it’s always been. But this time it’s different. Ten years after that fateful hunt, these men are being stalked, are being hunted themselves. By who? By . . . what? And why? Some hunting expeditions, they’re never really… Shares Montana, Indians of North America

The Wrong Case

The Wrong Case James Crumley · 1986 · ★ 3.9 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Milo once had a thriving divorce-case business in the small town of Meriwether, in the pacific Northwest, but because of liberal new divorce laws has taken to drinking and staring out the window. He's up to his third drink of the morning when an attractive young woman walks into his office and asks him to find her brother. he takes on what seems a routine missing-person case in hopes of getting… Shares Montana

Junkyard Dogs

Junkyard Dogs Craig Johnson · 2011 Sheriff Walt Longmire is faced with a modern-day ranch war in this gripping novel from New York Times bestselling author Craig JohnsonThe hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+It's a volatile new economy in Durant, Wyoming when the owners of a multimillion-dollar development of ranchettes want to get rid of the adjacent Stewart junkyard. Meeting the notorious Stewart clan is an… Shares Longmire

The Wept of Wish-ton-wish: A Tale James Fenimore Cooper · 1829 · ★ 3.9 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares Indians of North America with this book.

The Highway

The Highway C. J. Box · 2013 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares Montana with this book.

The Mexican Tree Duck

The Mexican Tree Duck James Crumley · 1993 · 251p · ≈ 8h · Moderate C.W. Sughrue is at it again, and this time he's looking for a beautiful, kidnapped woman named Sarita Cisneros Pines. No one can find her -- not her well-connected Republican husband, not the FBI, not even a group of violent guys with South American accents. And when Sughrue starts searching, working his way from Montana to the Mexican border, he comes up empty too. Shares Montana

Stories of American life and adventure Edward Eggleston · 1895 · ★ 3.7 · 177p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Shares Indians of North America with this book.

Oak Openings James Fenimore Cooper · 1800 · 476p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Best known for the novel “The Last of the Mohicans”, Cooper set this story in Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo county after a visit. The bee-hunter is reportedly Bazel Harrison, Schoolcraft’s first settler. A woodsman finds himself in the middle of the War of 1812 and a Potawatomi attack with a British spy and an American army messenger. Set in southwestern Michigan.* Shares Indians of North America

Kutenai tales Franz Boas · 1918 · 387p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Collection of texts made by Alexander F. Chamberlain in 1891 and by Franz Boas in the summer of 1914. Shares Indians of North America

Left Handed, a Navajo autobiography Left Handed · 1900 · 378p · ≈ 12h · Moderate With a simplicity as disarming as it is frank, Left Handed tells of his birth in the spring "when the cottonwood leaves were about the size of my thumbnail," of family chores such as guarding the sheep near the hogan, and of his sexual awakening. As he grows older, his account turns to life in the open: nomadic cattle-raising, farming, trading, communal enterprises, tribal dances and ceremonies,… Shares Indians of North America

Lonesome Land Bertha Muzzy Bower · 1912 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Valeria had come to Montana to marry a cowboy named Manley, expecting a future full of companionship and bracing freedom, lodges with great fireplaces and bearskin rugs, manageable cattle and sleek horses, and dazzling sunrises. If Val had known what was really waiting for her, she simply wouldn't have gotten off the train. Oh, the country was impressive, but it could be cruel in winter and… Shares Montana

Wyandotté James Fenimore Cooper · 1800 · 434p · ≈ 14h · Challenging The action of this novel is set in central New York near Unadilla Creek, a tributary to the headwaters of the Susquehanna River. There, in what was then (1765) frontier country, the British Captain Hugh Willoughby has just taken possession of a 7,000-acre patent. His first move toward settling his holdings is to drain a 400-acre beaver pond and establish a farm on the rich alluvial soil of its… Shares Indians of North America

Myths and Legends of the Sioux Marie L. McLaughlin · 1916 · 140p · ≈ 4h · Moderate The timid rabbit who outwits the tyrannical bear, the wonderful turtle who marries the Indian chief's daughter, the pet crane who saves a family{u2014}these and many other legendary figures appear in Myths and Legends of the Sioux. Marie L. McLaughlin, born to a white father and a mixed-blood Sioux mother, heard these stories while growing up among the eastern Sioux of Minnesota. When she… Shares Indians of North America

Centennial 1 James A. Michener · 1974 · ★ 4.5 · 932p · ≈ 31h · Challenging Product Description: A stunning panorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration of our country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of the American past that only bestselling author James Michener could bring to stunning life. From the Native Americans, the migrating white men and women, the cowboys, and the foreigners, it is a story of trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold… Shares Indians of North America

The trail book Mary Austin · 1918 · 146p · ≈ 4h · Moderate In the New York Museum of Natural History, two children discover displays that come to life and admit them into a series of exciting adventures that include talking animals and magical travels through the vast landscapes of the pre-Columbian continent. Along the way, the children discover the lifeways of the ancient Native Americans and the natural worlds they inhabited, as well as the impact on… Shares Indians of North America

The Black Pearl Scott O’Dell · 1967 · ★ 3.5 · 140p · ≈ 4h · Moderate In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner. Shares Indians of North America

Elan, son of two peoples Heidi Smith Hyde · 2014 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Light In 1898, just after his Bar Mitzvah, thirteen-year-old Elan and his family travel to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he meets his mother's family and participates in the Pueblo ceremony of becoming a man. Shares Indians of North America

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