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The Western Spirit has 38,423 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #73 on Substack's History Bestsellers board. 45 publications recommend them, 9 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 9.

Followers read · Boards read

Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers
38,423
read Oct 31
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
Subscribers
35K+
rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers
100+
bestseller badge 100+
Recommended by
45
+9 in 30 days
Recommends
9
Bestsellers rank
#73
History

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

37,50038,00038,50039,00039,500 Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 One reading a day from here 38,423
37,50038,00038,50039,00039,500 Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 One reading a day from here 38,423
One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow The Western Spirit on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
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Daily readings
DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Oct 31, 202638,42335K+

Leaderboard positions

BoardRank nowBest on recordReads on it
History Bestsellers#73#724 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
WriterOct 3107:00Oct 3113:00Oct 3119:47Nov 621:50Move
History Bestsellers72727373▼1

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

45 publications recommend The Western Spirit; 9 started in the last 30 days. The Western Spirit recommends 9, and 5 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

2Jun 253Jul1Aug3SepOct6Nov4Dec2Jan 261Feb2Mar1Apr3May2Jun4JulAug1Sep10OctNov
Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear.
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Recommendations started per month
MonthStarted
2025-062
2025-073
2025-081
2025-093
2025-116
2025-124
2026-012
2026-021
2026-032
2026-041
2026-053
2026-062
2026-074
2026-091
2026-1010

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Recommends

Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.

Who recommends writers like this one

Publications that recommend at least two other History writers with 10,000 to 50,000 followers (58 writers in that group), but not The Western Spirit.

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    recommends 5 of them
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    recommends 5 of them
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    recommends 4 of them
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    recommends 4 of them
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    recommends 3 of them
  • Annette Laing@annettelaing
    recommends 3 of them
  • Hilary White@hilarywhite
    recommends 3 of them
  • Untold Tales History
    recommends 3 of them
  • Althea’s Substack
    recommends 3 of them
  • Open Access Blogs
    recommends 3 of them

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