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Historical Fiction - Civil War Genre
Books in the Historical Fiction - Civil War genre:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
True W. Williams
The American Claimant (1892)
Colonel Mulberry Sellers, an American entrepreneur, succeeds to a British Earldom. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Dan Beard
Cressy and Other Tales (1896)
Author(s):
Bret Harte
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
An Old-Fashioned Girl (1902)
Polly, a simple ‘old-fashioned’ girl from the country visits her wealthy friend Fanny in the big city.
Author(s):
Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
The Log of a Cowboy (1903)
A history of the cattle drives north from Texas after the Civil War. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Andy Adams
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)
Rebecca Rowena Randall comes to stay with her aunts in Riverboro.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Illustrator(s):
None
Boy Life (1909)
Author(s):
William Dean Howells
Illustrator(s):
Henry François Farny
Florence Scovel Shinn
The Children of the New Forest (1911)
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Sinopah, the Indian Boy (1913)
Author(s):
James Willard Schultz
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Tang of Life (1918)
An old-fashioned cowboy shoot-em-up. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Herbert Knibbs
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Les Misérables (1925)
Author(s):
Victor Hugo
Illustrator(s):
Mead Schaeffer
The Black Angels (1926)
They all seven loved to sing, except Joseph, and eagerly accepted Benjy's plan to form an Operatic and Concert Troupe.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
George Breans
Children of the Moor (1927)
This is a story about a family of children during the Swedish famines of the 1860’s.
Author(s):
Laura Matilda Fitinghoff
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Children of the New Forest (1927)
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
Bernhard Stafford Good
Don Coyote (1927)
A western novel about a shy cowboy who saves the heroine's father’s mine.
Author(s):
Whitman Chambers
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
Life on the Mississippi (1927)
Mark Twain’s account of his time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
Walter Stewart
Longshanks (1928)
Tad Hopkins is on his way downriver to New Orleans to meet his father when he is unceremoniously tossed into the river by a thief. He is rescued by a young flatboat man - Abe Lincoln.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward C. Caswell
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1929)
An anti-slavery novel which had immense popularity prior to the Civil War. The later edition of 1935 has fewer illustrations.
Author(s):
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Cimarron (1930)
The story of the Oklahoma land rush seen through the eyes of a young family.
Author(s):
Edna Ferber
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Jinglebob (1930)
This is an authentic tale of cattle ranching in the 1880’s.
Author(s):
Philip Ashton Rollins
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth