Books like Mountain man by Vardis Fisher

Taggish the famed canine hero of Jack London’s classic adventure, The Call of the Wild, is uprooted from a comfortable home in California and forced into brutal sled work in the Yukon, where he must confront survival, the call of wilderness, and the pull of his wolf ancestry.

After graduating college, journalist Jon Krakauer traces the true story of Christopher McCandless, a young adventurer who abandoned possessions, took the name Alexander Supertramp, and ventured into Alaska’s wilderness, where he met his untimely death.

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.

Four strangers in Paris—an artist, an aristocratic neighbor, a talented roommate, and a neglected grandmother—intertwine as their lives expose the uncertainties and connections of modern urban living.

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.

A gripping western that follows a brotherly quest for revenge amid the rugged frontier, overland journeys and mountain life of early fur traders.

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.

A daring engineer, Smoke Jensen, leads a crew of mountain men to build a railroad through the Canadian Rockies, confronting hostile tribes, outlaw gangs, and natural obstacles in a spirited adventure of ambition and survival.

A brutal quest for land in New Mexico pits greedy industrialist Clifton Satterlee against the vengeful mountain man Smoke Jensen, who will protect his people with bloodshed and justice.

Eighteen‑year‑old Berry ventures into Missouri’s frontier to claim her father's land, confronting trappers, rivermen, and her own doubts as a trader falls in love with her in a harsh, untamed wilderness.

When gold is discovered in the remote town of No-Name, Colorado, its citizens invite a flood of fortune‑hunting gunslingers; Smoke Jensen must recruit legendary mountain men to defend the community.

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.

A determined pioneer woman ventures across the prairies and mountains of Colorado, confronting both the harsh frontier and the pull of a daring stranger on her journey to find love and independence.

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.

In Montana Territory, one name above all others strikes fear and hatred in the hearts of the Crow Indians - John Jackson, better known these days at Liver-Eating Jackson. Consumed by grief and rage, the mountain man has brutally killed ten braves so far in his one-man war of vengeance against the Crow, who murdered his beloved wife. Smoke Jensen knows Jackson by another name - "friend." He's not sure to what extent Jackson's exploits are true - devastating loss and frontier savagery have certainly driven lesser men mad. While doing some trapping in the territory. Smoke hears that twenty of the Crew's most fearsome warriors have banded together to hunt down their nemesis. Without a second thought, he rushes to his old friend's aid. But even with Smoke Jensen at his side, the fierce and fearless Liver-Eating Jackson may not be able to beat the odds this time....