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Books like Missoula

If you loved Missoula by Philip Maechling, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), State & Local, and United States.

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Top related books to Missoula

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Missoula.

Calamity Jane The Woman and the Legend — James D. McLaird

Calamity Jane The Woman and the Legend

James D. McLaird

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Wakara’s America The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West — Max Perry Mueller

Wakara’s America The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West

Max Perry Mueller

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Transnational Sport in the American West Oaxaca California Basketball — Bernardo Ramirez Rios

Transnational Sport in the American West Oaxaca California Basketball

Bernardo Ramirez Rios

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

A California State of Mind The Conflicted Voter in a Changing World — Mark Baldassare

A California State of Mind The Conflicted Voter in a Changing World

Mark Baldassare

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Laurel Canyon The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll’s Legendary Neighborhood — Michael Walker

Laurel Canyon The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll’s Legendary Neighborhood

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Roadside History of Colorado — James McTighe

Roadside History of Colorado

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Rocky Mountain Train Robberies True Stories of Notorious Bandits and Infamous Escapades — W.C. Jameson

Rocky Mountain Train Robberies True Stories of Notorious Bandits and Infamous Escapades

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Needles — Linda Fitzpatrick

Linda Fitzpatrick

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Red Sabbath The Battle of Little Bighorn — Robert J. Kershaw

Red Sabbath The Battle of Little Bighorn

Robert J. Kershaw

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Black Hats and White Hats Heroes and Villians of the West — Harold Rabinowitz

Black Hats and White Hats Heroes and Villians of the West

Harold Rabinowitz

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Railroad at Pocatello — Thornton Waite

Railroad at Pocatello

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

The Man Behind the Microchip Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley — Leslie Berlin

The Man Behind the Microchip Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Index to Vital Data in Local Newspapers of Sonoma County, California, Volume 1: 1855-1875 — Inc, Sonoma County Genealogical Society

Index to Vital Data in Local Newspapers of Sonoma County, California, Volume 1: 1855-1875

Inc, Sonoma County Genealogical Society

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Grit, Not Glamour Female Farmers, Ranchers, Ropers, and Herders of the American West — Cheryl Mullenbach

Grit, Not Glamour Female Farmers, Ranchers, Ropers, and Herders of the American West

Cheryl Mullenbach

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

San Francisco Then and Now® Compact Edition — Dennis Evanosky

San Francisco Then and Now® Compact Edition

Dennis Evanosky

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Telluride — Elizabeth Barbour

Elizabeth Barbour

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Remembering the Modoc War Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence — Boyd Cothran

Remembering the Modoc War Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Good Time Girls of California A Red-Light History of the Golden State — Jan MacKell Collins

Good Time Girls of California A Red-Light History of the Golden State

Jan MacKell Collins

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

An Island Called California An Ecological Introduction to Its Natural Communities — Elna S. Bakker

An Island Called California An Ecological Introduction to Its Natural Communities

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Blood and Treasure Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier — Bob Drury

Blood and Treasure Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Early Carson City — Susan J. Ballew

Early Carson City

Susan J. Ballew

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

The Longest Minute The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 — Matthew J. Davenport

The Longest Minute The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906

Matthew J. Davenport

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Mad at the World A Life of John Steinbeck — William Souder

Mad at the World A Life of John Steinbeck

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

Instant Cities Urbanization and the Rise of San Francisco and Denver — Gunther Paul Barth

Instant Cities Urbanization and the Rise of San Francisco and Denver

Gunther Paul Barth

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local • United States

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), State & Local, United States — the same threads that run through Missoula by Philip Maechling. Among the authors featured: James D. McLaird, Max Perry Mueller, Bernardo Ramirez Rios, Mark Baldassare, and others.

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