Books like The searchers by Alan Le May

A sweeping late‑nineteenth‑century cattle drive from Texas to Montana follows former Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and William F. Call as they confront the American West's myths, love, and violence in this epic of adventure and friendship.

Craig of the Mohicans, a frontier scout turns away from civilization, forming a bond with a Mohican warrior as they escort two sisters across the perilous wilderness of America's frontier.

Fourteen‑year‑old Mattie Ross sets out from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to hunt down Tom Chaney—whom she blames for her father’s death—guided by the grizzled U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn.

A young woman defends her faith and freedom in a polygamous Mormon community while hunting her captors in the rugged American West.

A group of settlers encounters an old trapper on the prairie in 1805, as they push westward over the Great Plains for new land and opportunities in the United States of America, while the country is still being explored.

Zane Grey’s historical western follows Lewis Wetzel’s quest to protect early Ohio settlements and the clash between Moravian missionaries and Native tribes in the late eighteenth‑century frontier.

Set in 19th-century Arizona, Elmore Leonard’s *Hombre* follows a white man raised by the Apache who faces a stagecoach robbery and explores themes of racism and cultural identity.

Two Texas Rangers, Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, confront Indian raids, bandit threats, and personal entanglements with women while navigating life on the frontier.

In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity. Cynthia Ann's story has been told and re-told over generations to become a foundational American tale. The myth gave rise to operas and one-act plays, and in the 1950s to a novel by Alan LeMay, which would be adapted into one of Hollywood's most legendary films, The Searchers , "The Biggest, Roughest, Toughest...and Most Beautiful Picture Ever Made!" directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. Glenn Frankel, beginning in Hollywood and then returning to the origins of the story, creates a rich and nuanced anatomy of a timeless film and a quintessentially American myth. The dominant story that has emerged departs dramatically from documented history: it is of the inevitable triumph of white civilization, underpinned by anxiety about the sullying of white women by "savages." What makes John Ford's film so powerful, and so important, Frankel argues, is that it both upholds that myth and undermines it, baring the ambiguities surrounding race, sexuality, and violence in the settling of the West and the making of America.

Jack Cabb, the lone white survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn, recounts his life‑changing adventures—from bodyguarding saloon owner Wild Bill Hickock to touring Europe with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show and serving as an interpreter for Sitting Bull.

Ten years after the events of Vengeance Road, Reece Murphy is trapped in the Rose Riders gang and must ally with aspiring journalist Charlotte Vaughn to escape the lawless frontier.

Zane Grey’s historical novel follows frontier heroine Elizabeth “Betty” Zane, whose courage during the 1782 siege of Fort Henry and daring supply run become legendary in American Revolutionary War lore.

The Last Trail traces the fading wilderness of the Ohio River Valley as pioneers, hunters, and a mysterious border rival confront new threats and changing times, weaving romance and frontier justice into the final chapter of Grey’s trilogy.

Een avontuurlijke jonge pioniersvrouw deelt in haar dagboeken hoe ze eind XIXe eeuw per huifkar naar Arizona trekt en er twintig jaar door het harde Wilde Westen leven.