'The 50 Greatest Books on the American West' as compiled by the editors of True West magazine - presented as listed, alpha by title - sans editor's comments. If you want to read the editor's comments, you're just gonna have to get a copy of the October, 2003 issue.

Across the Wide Missouri
 by Bernard DeVoto

The American Fur Trade of the Far West
 by Hiram Martin Chittenden

An Authentic Life of Billy the Kid
 by Pat Garrett

And Die in the West
 by Paula Mitchell Marks

Angle of Repose
 by Wallace Stegner

Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
 by Washington Irving

Bat Masterson
 by Robert K. DeArment

Bent's Fort
 by David Lavender

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
 by Wallace Stegner

The Big Sky
 by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
 by Dee Brown

The Butterfield Overland Mail, 1857 - 1869
 by Roscoe P. and Margaret B. Conkling

The California and Oregon Trail :
Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life
 by Francis Parkman

Charles Goodnight : Cowman and Plainsman
 by J. Evetts Haley

The Conquest of Apacheria
 by Dan L. Thrapp

Commerce of the Prairies
 by Josiah Gregg

John Wesley Hardin : Dark Angel of Texas
 by Leon C. Metz

Death Comes for the Archbishop
 by Willa Cather

The Devil Knows How to Ride
 by Edward E. Leslie

Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography
 by Dan L. Thrapp

Forty Years on the Frontier
 by Granville Stuart

The Great Plains
 by Walter Prescott Webb

Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest
 by Joseph G. McCoy

'I Will Fight No More Forever' :
Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War
 by Merrill D. Beal

Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West
 by Dale Morgan

Jeff Milton : A Good Man with a Gun
 by J. Evetts Haley

The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
 by Edited by Gary L. Moulton

A Journey Through Texas
 by Frederick Law Olmsted

Lazy B
 by Sandra Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day

The Lincoln County War
 by Frederick W. Nolan

The Log of a Cowboy
 by Andy Adams

Lonesome Dove
 by Larry McMurtry

The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
 by Edited by LeRoy R. Hafen

My Antonia
 by Willa Cather

On the Border with Crook
 by John G. Bourke

Pat Garrett : The Story of a Western Lawman
 by Leon C. Metz

The Plains Across
 by John D. Unruh, Jr.

Roughing It
 by Mark Twain

The Saga of Billy the Kid
 by Walter Noble Burns

Sam Bass and Gang
 by Rick Miller

Son of the Morning Star
 by Evan Connell

The Texas Rangers
 by Walter Prescott Webb

Tombstone : An Iliad of the Southwest
 by Walter Noble Burns

The Trail Drivers of Texas
 by J. Marvin Hunter

Vanished Arizona
 by Martha Summerhayes

The Vigilantes of Montana
 by Thomas Dimsdale

The Virginian
 by Owen Wister

Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail
 by Lewis H. Garrard

Wyatt Earp : Frontier Marshal
 by Stuart Lake

The XIT Ranch of Texas and the Early Days of the Llano Estacado
 by J. Evetts Haley