Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Soul of the Indian | 1911 | Willa Cather | Buy |
| 2 | O Pioneers! | 1913 | Willa Cather | Buy |
| 3 | The Song of the Lark | 1915 | Willa Cather | Buy |
| 4 | Lord Grizzly | 1954 | Willa Cather | Buy |
| 5 | Riders of Judgment | 1957 | Willa Cather | Buy |
| 6 | Conquering Horse | 1959 | Willa Cather | Buy |
| 7 | Scarlet Plume | 1964 | Willa Cather | Buy |
| 8 | King of Spades | 1964 | Willa Cather | Buy |
| 9 | Saga of Chief Joseph | 2017 | Willa Cather | Buy |
| 10 | The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse | 2018 | Willa Cather | Buy |
| 11 | Left Handed, Son of Old Man Hat | 2018 | Willa Cather | Buy |
| 12 | A Cycle of the West | 2018 | Willa Cather | Buy |
The Bison Classic Editions line is published by the University of Nebraska Press under its Bison Books imprint. The series collects notable works of Western American literature and history, and only two of the twelve titles listed here are by Willa Cather: O Pioneers! (1913) and The Song of the Lark (1915). The other books include Charles Eastman’s The Soul of the Indian, several novels by Frederick Manfred (Lord Grizzly, Riders of Judgment, Conquering Horse, Scarlet Plume, King of Spades), and historical works about Native American leaders.
Readers looking specifically for Cather’s fiction should note that O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark also appear in the Great Plains Trilogy listing on this site. The remaining Bison Classic Editions represent a broad cross-section of writing about the American West from the early twentieth century through modern reprints.