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Non-Fiction Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Non-Fiction books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Non-Fiction series? Start with "Looking Back West: Selections form the Pioneer News-Observer" (1972) and follow publication order through all 24 books.
The complete Non-Fiction reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order

Looking Back West: Selections form the Pioneer News-Observer
1972

Permian: A Continuing Saga
1985

Elmer Kelton: 30 Years of Western Fiction
1985

Living and Writing in West Texas: Two Speeches
1990

The Art of Howard Terpning
1992

The Art of Frank C. McCarthy
1992

The Art of James Bama
1993

Elmer Kelton Country: The Short Nonfiction of a Texas Novelist
1993

My Kind of Heroes: Selected Speeches
1995

Texas
1995

Texas Cattle Barons: Their Families, Land and Legacy
1999

Prairie Gothic (By: John R. Erickson)
2005

Sandhills Boy: The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer
2007

Tom Lovell: Storyteller with a Brush
2020

Horsing Around
1991

New Trails: Twenty-Three Original Stories
1994

The Best of the American West II
1999

A Century of Great Western Stories
2001

Lone Star Law
2005

Noah’s Ride
2006

Lost Trails
2007

The Way of the West
2008

Law of the Gun
2010

Ghost Towns
2010
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