Books Like Yellowstone: Modern Western and Ranch Family Novels
If you love the land-and-legacy fights of modern ranch dramas, these novels deliver the same feeling: a family, a ranch handed down for generations, and people who want to take it.
Veil of the Westabout 2 hr
Modern Western / family drama · about 115 pages · by Mark Oliver
Some land is just property. Blue Horizon is a legacy.
The Johnson family's Montana ranch, Blue Horizon, is targeted by ruthless businessman Anton Virelli. A modern Western and family drama about legacy, loyalty and the land, about 115 pages and in Kindle Unlimited.
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More modern Westerns readers often recommend
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry: the Pulitzer Prize-winning cattle-drive epic, for the scope and the friendships.
- The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss: a quiet Oregon ranch-country novel about a young woman who gentles horses in 1917.
- Longmire series (The Cold Dish) by Craig Johnson: a modern Wyoming sheriff, for readers who want crime with their West.
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy: a coming-of-age ride from Texas into Mexico.
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