April 2003
Booklists · American Historical Fiction
Relive U.S. history through story. These recent books are just a few of the many wonderful novels set in our country’s past.
The Frontier Experience
Snow Mountain Passage
Donner party
The Buckskin Line
Texas Rangers
The Indian Lover
California, 1840s
The Revenant
Rocky Mountains
Ghost Warrior
Southwest
The Civil War
A Changing Country
In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden
Johnstown flood
A Parchment of Leaves
Appalachia, early 20th century
Down to a Soundless Sea
Big Sur, California, early 20th century
Between the Wars
The Sound of the Trees
Colorado, 1930s
Carter Beats the Devil
1920s
Stillwater
Massachusetts, 1930s
America and World War II
Biographical Fiction
The Jazz Bird
George Remus
Treason
Aaron Burr
Douglass’ Women
Frederick Douglass, Anna Douglass, Ottilie Assing
Abe
Abraham Lincoln
Chang and Eng
Chang and Eng Baker
African American Stories
Native American Stories
The Peace Chief
Cherokee, 16th century
People of the Masks
prehistoric
Liar’s Moon
Cheyenne
Historical Suspense
Grammercy Park
New York City, 1890s
Suspension
New York City, 1880s
Beulah Hill
Vermont, 1930s
Speaks the Nightbird
colonial North America
Unholy Fire
Civil War
The Dante Club
Boston, 1860s
Fantasy
The Seeds of Time
Colorado, 1880s
Meet John Trow
Civil War
Forever
New York City
A Scattering of Jades
Kentucky and New York
Locating additional library materials in the Library Catalog:
Not all fiction records in the Library Catalog include subject or setting information, but you can find some additional historical novels with a keyword subject search. Type the place name you are looking for and add the words “history” and “fiction” to the search request. Staff can help you find more using other print and online sources.
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