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    Home » Blog » Book Recommendations

    12 Cowboy Books for Yellowstone Fans

    Published: Dec 29, 2021 by Tiffany Dahle · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    If you love Yellowstone, you'll love these cowboy books while you wait for the next season to drop. Tide yourself over for the next episode with your favorite Dutton Ranch characters with a great read.

    Collage of four book covers: Lonesome Dove, Kings of Texas, Badluck Way, and Holidays on the Ranch.

    Have you watched Yellowstone on Paramount yet?

    My husband and I simply devoured every episode over the summer and could not wait for Season 4 to drop!

    Not familiar with the television drama starring Kevin Costner, Kelly Reilly, Luke Grimes, Cole Hauser, and Wes Bentley?

    Take a peek at the Season 1 trailer here:

    It only took a few hours in the company of Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler for me to have a serious addiction to this explosive western drama.

    Now that the current season is over, there's no need to suffer from cowboy withdrawal. When you need your Dutton Ranch fix, these fun cowboy books are the perfect solution.

    Life on a ranch is rarely easy, and these cowboy books definitely draw you into the big open sky of a rancher's world.

    Some titles may be a little familiar to you either from the movie or television adaptions of classic western novels, while other books are brand new modern cowboy tales.

    The list includes some gritty nonfiction as well as more lighthearted cowboy romances.

    You're sure to find something to help you channel your Inner Beth Dutton here.

    12 Cowboy Books for Yellowstone Fans

    1

    Texas: A Novel

    Spanning four and a half centuries, James A. Michener’s monumental saga chronicles the epic history of Texas, from its Spanish roots in the age of the conquistadors to its current reputation as one of America’s most affluent, diverse, and provocative states.

    Among his finely drawn cast of characters, emotional and political alliances are made and broken, as the loyalties established over the course of each turbulent age inevitably collapse under the weight of wealth and industry.

    2

    Lonesome Dove: A Novel

    The first in a series of four - yay, more books to read! - this is a love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier.

    Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember. 

    3

    Where the Lost Wander: A Novel

    The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both.

    But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts work to keep them apart. John’s heritage gains them safe passage through hostile territory only to come between them as they seek to build a life together.

    4

    News of the World: A Novel

    In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.

    In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence.

    5

    The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels- A Love Story

    Wildly popular award-winning blogger, accidental ranch wife, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks, Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman) tells the true story of her storybook romance that led her from the Los Angeles glitter to a cattle ranch in rural Oklahoma, and into the arms of her real-life Marlboro Man.

    6

    The Big Sky

    The Big Sky is the first of A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s epic adventure novels set in the American West. Here he introduces Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, and Dick Summers: traveling the Missouri River from St. Louis to the Rockies, these frontiersmen live as trappers, traders, guides, and explorers.

    Caudill is a young Kentuckian driven by a raging hunger for life, longing for the blue sky and brown earth of big, wild places. Caught up in the freedom and savagery of the wilderness, he becomes an untamed mountain man, whom only the beautiful daughter of a Blackfoot chief dares to love.

    7

    The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West

    The Last Cowboys is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Branch’s epic tale of one American family struggling to hold on to the fading vestiges of the Old West. For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders - many call them the most successful rodeo family in history.

    Now they find themselves fighting to save their land and livelihood as the West is transformed by urbanization, battered by drought, and rearranged by public-land disputes. Could rodeo, of all things, be the answer?

    8

    Bull Mountain

    Clayton Burroughs comes from a long line of outlaws. For generations, the Burroughs clan has made its home on Bull Mountain in North Georgia, running shine, pot, and meth over six state lines, virtually untouched by the rule of law. To distance himself from his family’s criminal empire, Clayton took the job of sheriff in a neighboring community to keep what peace he can.

    But when a federal agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms shows up at Clayton’s office with a plan to shut down the mountain, his hidden agenda will pit brother against brother, test loyalties, and could lead Clayton down a path to self-destruction.

    9

    Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire

    This nonfiction book follows 150 years of history in a Texas ranch, sharing the path the story of the King Ranch and those behind it. This large scale operation has its share of drama and legal troubles to keep you intrigued.

    10

    Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West

    In this gripping memoir of a young man, a wolf, their parallel lives and ultimate collision, Bryce Andrews describes life on the remote, windswept Sun Ranch in southwest Montana.

    The Sun’s twenty thousand acres of rangeland occupy a still-wild corner of southwest Montana—a high valley surrounded by mountain ranges and steep creeks with portentous names like Grizzly and Bad Luck. Just over the border from Yellowstone National Park, the Sun holds giant herds of cattle and elk amid many predators—bears, mountain lions, and wolves.

    11

    Secret Nights with a Cowboy: A Kittredge Ranch Novel

    And now for something a little different in the cowboy books realm.... (And yes, this is the first in a series!)

    Riley Kittredge has always known exactly what he wanted. His land, his horses. His woman. He met and married Rae Trujillo far too young, and their young love combusted right after they said their vows.

    But their passion has never managed to burn itself out. When Rae shows this time, it's not a night of pleasure she demands, but a divorce.

    12

    Holidays on the Ranch: Lively Southern Contemporary Holiday Romance

    Out of the army and looking for some peace and quiet this Christmas, former sniper Finn O'Donnell heads to the sleepy town of Burnt Boot, Texas. But Finn hasn't spent even one night at his new ranch when an army SUV pulls into the driveway and a familiar figure steps out.

    Finn doesn't want to revisit the past, but he owes Callie Brewster his life... Whatever she needs, he will be there for her.

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