18 books like Life with Father

What to read after Life with Father — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The hanging tree Dorothy M. Johnson · 1957 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Dorothy M. Johnson wrote dozens of highly acclaimed western stories and books in her long career. The stories in this book are her very best. They were ranked as four of the top five stories of the 20th century by the Western Writers of America, with "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" as number one. That story plus "A Man Called Horse" and "The Hanging Tree" became major Hollywood films. This is… Shares: West, Westerns, Social life and customs

The women on the wall Wallace Stegner · 1950 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares: West, Westerns, Social life and customs, Short Stories

The Story of a Mine Bret Harte · 1877 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging A delightful western tale by Bret Harte. Two sets of men make conflicting claims to a single bit of mountain, and alternately one claim and then another prevails -- until the claims reach Washington, and everybody knows the buck stops there. Shares: Mines and mineral resources, Westerns, Social life and customs

West of Dodge Louis L'Amour · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Moderate WHERE THE REAL FRONTIER BEGINSA young cowpuncher stakes a claim that can only be sealed with fists and a .44 Colt. . . . A gunfighter, tired of violence, finds himself pushed down a trail of bloody revenge. . . . From purple sage to gambler’s gold, from a señorita’s tempting smile to a splash of blood in the dust, here are stories with a distinctive L’Amour twist. A quiet farmer defends his honor… Shares: West, Westerns, Social life and customs, Short Stories

The outlaws of Mesquite Louis L'Amour · 1990 · ★ 4.4 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Meet the frontier bad men—like Leo Carver—a man so hated that everyone in the town of Canyon Gap planned to turn up for his hanging. Then meet those who dared to challenge them—like Marshal Lou Morgan, who tried to save his citizens from a goldmine swindler, only to learn that his own code of honesty made him the biggest sucker in town. There's champion rodeo rider Marty Mahan, called a coward… Shares: West, Westerns, Social life and customs

Cattle Brands Andy Adams · 1906 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Challenging From the book:It was a wet, bad year on the Old Western Trail. From Red River north and all along was herd after herd waterbound by high water in the rivers. Our outfit lay over nearly a week on the South Canadian, but we were not alone, for there were five other herds waiting for the river to go down. This river had tumbled over her banks for several days, and the driftwood that was coming down… Shares: Ranch life, Westerns, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

The Big Rock Candy Mountain Wallace Stegner · 1943 · 563p · ≈ 18h · Challenging Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune—in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest.Stegner portrays more than thirty years in the life of the Mason… Shares: West, Westerns

Condensed novels Bret Harte · 1867 · ★ 3.6 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Dodds were dead. For twenty year they had slept under the green graves of Kittery churchyard. The townfolk still spoke of them kindly. The keeper of the alehouse, where David had smoked his pipe, regretted him regularly, and Mistress Kitty, Mrs. Dodd's maid, whose trim figure always looked well in her mistress's gowns, was inconsolable.  On the death of his parents, Faraday Little was… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

On the Frontier Bret Harte · 1884 · 132p · ≈ 4h · Challenging It was noon of the 10th of August, 1838. The monotonous coast line between Monterey and San Diego had set its hard outlines against the steady glare of the Californian sky and the metallic glitter of the Pacific Ocean. The weary succession of rounded, dome-like hills obliterated all sense of distance; the rare whaling vessel or still rarer trader, drifting past, saw no change in these rusty… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte · 1946 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The life of Bret Harte divides itself, without adventitious forcing, into four quite distinct parts. First, we have the precocious boyhood, with its eager response to the intellectual stimulation of cultured parents; young Bret Harte assimilated Greek with amazing facility; devoured voraciously the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Irving, Froissart, Cervantes, Fielding; and, with creditable… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

The story of California Stewart Edward White · 1927 · 437p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Contents The Sign at Six (1912) The Gray Dawn (1915) The Mountains (1904) Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life (1899) The Adventures of Bobby Orde (1908) The Westerners (1901) The Call of the North The Rules of the Game (1910) The Claim Jumpers: A Romance (1901) The Riverman (1908) The Land of Footprints (1913) The Forty-Niners (1918) The Leopard Woman (1916) Conjuror's House… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

A Daughter of the Snows Jack London · 1902 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Challenging From the book:"All ready, Miss Welse, though I'm sorry we can't spare one of the steamer's boats." Frona Welse arose with alacrity and came to the first officer's side. "We're so busy," he explained, "and gold-rushers are such perishable freight, at least -" "I understand," she interrupted, "and I, too, am behaving as though I were perishable. And I am sorry for the trouble I am giving you,… Shares: Westerns, Classic Literature

Colonel Starbottle's Client Bret Harte · 1892 · 152p · ≈ 5h · Challenging It may be remembered that it was the habit of that gallant war- horse of the Calaveras democracy, Colonel Starbottle, at the close of a political campaign, to return to his original profession of the Law. Perhaps it could not be called a peaceful retirement. The same fiery-tongued eloquence and full-breasted chivalry which had in turns thrilled and overawed freemen at the polls were no less… Shares: Westerns, Classic Literature

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales Bret Harte · 1961 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares: Westerns, Short Stories Shares: Westerns, Short Stories

The Crusade of the Excelsior Bret Harte · 1887 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The speaker, though apparently more at his ease at sea, was in dress and appearance fully as unnautical as Banks. As he leaned over the railing, his white, close-fitting trousers and small patent-leather boots gave him a jaunty, half-military air, which continued up to the second button of his black frock-coat, and then so utterly changed its character that it was doubtful if a greater contrast… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

Frontier Stories Bret Harte · 1887 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Just where the red track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace near the summit, hedged by dwarf firs. At every bend of the heat-laden road the eye rested upon it wistfully; all along the flank of the mountain, which seemed to pant and quiver in the oven-like… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

The unforgiven Alan Le May · 1957 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In this epic American novel, which served as the basis for the classic film directed by John Huston, a family is torn apart when an old enemy starts a vicious rumor that sets the range aflame. Shares: West, Westerns

Wolfville Alfred Henry Lewis · 1897 · 337p · ≈ 11h · Challenging The old fellow had lighted a cob pipe and tilted his chair back in a fashion which proclaimed a plan to be comfortable. He had begun to tolerate—even encourage—my society, although it was clear that as a tenderfoot he regarded me with a species of gentle disdain. It came in easy illustration, as answer to my question, for the Old Cattleman to recall the funeral of a former leading spirit of… Shares: Ranch life, Westerns, Social life and customs

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