I love history, but currently struggling with a reading block. I devoured The Wager and want to read more like it. I searched through the subreddit and other blogs and found a ton of similar maritime stories.
But now, I'm curious to see if there are any American Frontier recommendations that is written in that same narrative nonfiction style?
Thanks in advance!
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· *Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party* by George R. Stewart.
· *Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee* by Dee Brown.
· *Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West* by Stephen Ambrose.
· *The Blue, the Gray and the Red* by Thom Hatch.
· *The Comanchero Frontier: A History of New Mexican-Plains Indian Relations* by Charles L. Kenner.
· *Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869* by Stephen Ambrose.
· *Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History* by S. C. Gwynne.
Undaunted Courage
The Indifferent Stars Above
Down the Great Unknown, about the first decent of the Grand Canyon
Not technically the frontier, since it’s about 1920s Oklahoma, but Killers of the Flower Moon (also by Grann) is fantastic.