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FWC: Frontier, Western, Adventure Classics?
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But doesnt stop us from reading others that are newer!
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Rosemarie and I tend to refer as our first choice True Grit by Charles Portis
Not a Hefty read at all
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Last year I read Rounders by Max Evans. It’s only 150 pages and funny in parts. (Will fit to add links when I am next on a computer.)
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Thank you Annette!
That would be fun to have a read that is funny as well!
Do James Fenimore Cooper's Learherstocking Tales (The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer, and The Prairie), all written in the first half of the nineteeth century, count as Frontier/Western classics?
Just wanted to commend this list. Lots of great ones in here!
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We are squeezing them in for a couple Members.
Here is the schedule:
FWC: Quarterly Reads
Jan-Mar The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Apr-Jun Shane by Jack Schaefer
Jul-Sep Llano River by Elmer Kelton
Oct-Dec Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
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James Fenimore Cooper's Learherstocking Tales all fit under the FWC genre.
Check out the 4 we have scheduled for 2022.
We can always do Buddy Reads as well.
I recently read Lonesome Dove and really enjoyed it so I'm looking forward to reading the 4 scheduled for 2022 and I'll fit True Grit in there as well.
Lesle wrote: "Jim Sorry I missed this :(James Fenimore Cooper's Learherstocking Tales all fit under the FWC genre.
Check out the 4 we have scheduled for 2022.
We can always do Buddy Reads as well."
I've read all four (two of them--Shane and Purple Sage--this year as audiobooks). Kelton was the only 8-time Spur Award winner (given for the best western novel of the year) in the award's history.
If I'm not misteaken (yes, I'm hungry), they're available in a Library of America omnibus.
Original publication years:
Riders of the Purple Sage 1912
Ox-Bow Incident 1940
Shane 1949
Llano River 1966
They all qualify for not only the FWC cutoff year, but the general classic cutoff year.
Edit: The Western: Four Classic Novels of the 1940s & 50s: The Ox-Bow Incident / Shane / The Searchers / Warlock contains two of the four, and is the LOA omnibus I referred to earlier.
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I really enjoyed The Power of The Dog and Lonesome Dove came highly suggested based off that. Love that there’s quarterly westerns here!
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Lonesome Dove is my all time favorite book!
True Grit is up there as well.
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Cannot wait to see your thoughts on the 4 reads when they come around Jim!
That is true! Didnt even think about that.
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Once you get past the first 100 pages of Character building the Lonesome Dove is outstanding! Love Gus!
I hope you join in with us with the 4 reads Rae!
I loved all 4 of The Lonesome Dove books and True Grit. I also enjoyed Little Big Man and past group read The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters.
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No Life for a Lady by Agnes Morley Cleaveland
I received it this past week.
Lesle wrote: "I just received in the mail for next year:The Ox-Bow Incident and Llano River"
Mine's on order - it's taken a while to find a copy available at a reasonable price.
I reserved one of those great Library of America editions at my local library. It contains 4 classic westerns. I'll start with Ox-Bow and hopefully I'll have time to read the others.
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1953 - Best Historical Novel: "The Wheel and the Hearth" by Lucia Moore
1954 - Best Historical Novel: "Journey by the River" by John Prescott
1955 - No Award given
1956 - Best Historical Novel: "Generations of Men" by John Clinton Hunt
1957 - Best Historical Novel: "Silver Mountain" by Dan Cushman
1958 - Best Historical Novel: "The Fancher Train" by Amelia Bean
1959 - Best Historical Novel: "The Buffalo Soldier" by John Prebble
1960 - Best Historical Novel: "From Where the Sun Now Stands" by Will Henry
1961 - Best Historical Novel: "The Winter War" by William Wister Haines
1962 - Best Historical Novel: "Moontrap" by Don Berry
1963 - Best Historical Novel: "Gates of the Mountains" by Will Henry (2)
1964 - Best Historical Novel: "Indian Fighter" by F.F. Halloran
1965 - Best Historical Novel: (tied) "Gold in California" by Todhunter Ballard & "Mountain Man" by Vardis Fisher
1966 - Best Historical Novel: "Hellfire Jackson" by Garland Roark & Charles Thomas
1967 - Best Historical Novel: "The Wolf is My Brother by Chad Oliver
1968 - Best Historical Novel: "The Red Sabbath" by Lewis B. Patten
1969 - Best Historical Novel: "The White Man's Road" by Benjamin Capps
1970-71 No Award given
1972 - Best Historical Novel: "Chiricahua" by Will Henry (3)
1973-75 No Award given
1976 - Best Historical Novel: "The Kincaids" by Matt Braun
1977 - Best Historical Novel: "Swimming Man Burning" by Terrence Kilpatrick
1978-80 No Award given
1981 - Best Historical Novel: "Aces and Eights" by Loren D. Estleman
1982 - Best Historical Novel: Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson
1983 - Best Historical Novel: "Sam Bass" by Bryan Woolley
1984 - Best Historical Novel: "Gone the Dreams and Dancing" by Douglas C. Jones
1985 - Best Historical Novel: "The Snowblind Moon" by John Byrne Cooke
1986 - Best Historical Novel: "Roman" by Douglas C. Jones (2)
1987 - Best Historical Novel: "Wanderer Springs" by Robert Flynn
1988 - Best Novel of The West: "The Homesman" by Glendon Swarthout
1989 - Best Novel of The West: "Panther In The Sky" by James Alexander Thom
1990 - Best Novel of The West: "Home Mountain" by Jeanne Williams
1991 - Best Novel of The West: "The Medicine Horn" by Jory Sherman
1992 - Best Novel of The West: "Slaughter" by Elmer Kelton
1993 - Best Novel of The West: "Empire of Bones" by Jeff Long
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Listed below are 18 of the Best Western Novels… not in any order of distinction:
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick–a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins–encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Kidnapped form his safe California home. Thrown into a life-and-death struggle on the frozen Artic wilderness. Half St. Bernard, half shepard, Buck learns many hard lessons as a sled dog: the lesson of the leash, of the cold, of near-starvation and cruelty. And the greatest lesson he learns from his last owner, John Thornton: the power of love and loyalty.Yet always, even at the side of the human he loves, Buck feels the pull in his bones, an urge to answer his wolf ancestors as they howl to him.
Centennial by James A. Michener
A stunning panorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration of our country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of the American past that only bestselling author James Michener could bring to stunning life. From the Native Americans, the migrating white men and women, the cowboys, and the foreigners, it is a story of trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters–all caught up in the dramatic events and violent conflicts that shaped the destiny of our legendary West.
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop traces the friendship and adventures of Bishop Jean Latour and vicar Father Joseph Vaillant as they organize the new Roman Catholic diocese of New Mexico. Latour is patrician, intellectual, introverted; Vaillant, practical, outgoing, sanguine. Friends since their childhood in France, the clerics triumph over corrupt Spanish priests, natural adversity, and the indifference of the Hopi and Navajo to establish their church and build a cathedral in the wilderness. The novel, essentially a study of character, explores Latour’s inner conflicts and his relationship with the land, which through the author’s powerful description becomes an imposing character in its own right.
Hondo by Louis L’Amour
He was a man etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and ways of staying alive. She was a woman raising a young son on her own on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior are caught in a drama of love, war, and honor.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Set in the late nineteenth century, Lonesome Dove is the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana — and much more. It is a drive that represents for everybody involved not only a daring, even a foolhardy, adventure, but a part of the American Dream — the attempt to carve out of the last remaining wilderness a new life.
Monte Walsh by Jack Schaefer
With humor and pathos author Schaefer chronicles the passing of the Old West. In loosely connected episodes he vividly portrays the life and times of working cowboy Walsh, side-kick Chet Rollins, and other memorable characters of the Slash Y. Here are shootings, cattle drives, winter storms, and spring floods; cattle rustling, romancin’ and horse breaking. Man and beast, pushed to the limits of their endurance, survive or perish.
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
In the remote border country of South Utah, a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into marrying against her will. The punishment is halted by the arrival of the hero, Lassiter, a gunman in black leather, who routs the persecutors and then gradually recounts his own history of an endless search for a woman abducted long ago by the Mormons. Secrecy, seduction, captivity, and escape: out of these elements Zane Grey built his acclaimed story of the American West.
Riders To Cibola by Norman Zollinger
In this saga beginning in the days of Pancho Villa, Ignacio Ortiz, an orphan and a runaway searching for his past, lives through eras of intense change, including two world wars and the beginning of the modern West. As these turbulent events serve as backdrop to his life, Ignacio’s loyalties will be tested by the passions of his tempestuous employers–the MacAndrews clan.
The Sea Of Grass by Conrad Richter
Novel by Conrad Richter, published in 1936, presenting in epic scope the conflicts in the settling of the American Southwest. Set in New Mexico in the late 19th century, the novel concerns the often violent clashes between the pioneering ranchers, whose cattle range freely through the vast sea of grass, and the farmers, or “nesters,” who build fences and turn the sod. Against this background is set the triangle of rancher Colonel Jim Brewton, his unstable Eastern wife Lutie, and the ambitious Brice Chamberlain. Richter casts the story in Homeric terms, with the children caught up in the conflicts of their parents.
Shane by Jack Schaefer
A stranger rode out of the heart of the great glowing West, into the small Wyoming valley in the summer of 1889. It was Shane, who appeared on the horizon and became a friend and guardian to the Starrett family at a time when homesteaders and cattle rangers battled for territory and survival. Jack Schaefer’s classic novel illuminates the spirit of the West through the eyes of a young boy and a hero who changes the lives of everyone around him The
The Big Sky by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
A legend before he turns 20, Boone Caudill becomes a powerful White Savage, an untamed life force that only one woman, the beautiful daughter of a Blackfoot chief, would dare to love. It is this magnificent spirit that Guthrie celebrates with his vivid storytelling–the glory of the bigness, the wildness, the freedom and undying dream of the West.
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community, justice and human nature.
The Rounders by Max Evans
In The Rounders, Dusty meets a roan named Old Fooler, a horse whose hooves should be cloven, he’s so mean-spirited. When Dusty’s not trying to send Old Fooler back to the devil, he is nursing the wounds, both physical and emotional, inflicted by the evil horse. In The Great Wedding, Dusty arranges to marry off his buddy, Wrangler, to a rich woman in Santa Fe, so they can all live happily ever after. High society in the Hi Lo Country will never be the same after a brush with these two rowdy range riders. And in the final, Spur Award-winning Novella The Orange County Cowboys, modern times catch up with Wrangler and Dusty when their boss, Jim Ed Love, plans to sell his ranch, their only home, to a Japanese investor.
The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout
This is the all-time classic novel chosen by the Western Writers of America as one of the best western novels ever wrttten. It is also the inspiration for John Wayne’s last great starring role–the acclaimed 1976 film, The Shootist.
The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton
To the ranchers and farmers of 1950s Texas, man’s biggest enemy is one he can’t control. With their entire livelihood pegged on the chance of a wet year or a dry year, drought has the ability to crush their whole enterprise, to determine who stands and who falls, and to take food out of the mouths of the workers and their families. To Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent, and cantankerous rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a foe that he must fight on his own grounds. Refusing the questionable “help” of federal aid programs, Charlie and his family struggle to make the ranch survive until the time it rains again-if it ever rains again.
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
In the untamed West, pioneers came to test their fortunes — and their wills. The Wyoming territory was a harsh, unforgiving land, with its own unwritten code of honor by which men lived and died. Into this rough landscape rides the Virginian, a solitary man whose unbending will is his only guide through life. The Virginian’s unwavering beliefs in right and wrong are soon tested as he tries to prove his love for a woman who cannot accept his sense of justice; at the same time, a betrayal by his most trusted friend forces him to fight against the corruption that rules the land.
True Grit by Charles Portis
Charles Portis has been acclaimed as one of America’s foremost comic writers. True Grit is his most famous novel–first published in 1968–and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne (for which he won his only Academy Award). It tells the story of Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, who sets out in the winter of eighteen seventy-something to avenge the murder of her father.
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Does have many books I have not heard of and of course Authors as well.
The other list I have heard of all of them but one.
Oh my, I simply cannot go through all of these books. There are books I have and have not read. I am a nerd---feeling I should check every single one out thoroughly!
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Some of us love list and you are saying I need to pass up this list....the pressure of it all!
List always makes me want to buy more books to add to my TBR pile!
Lesle, pls do not stop sending the lists, It is me who has to learn how to go through them a bit more quickly. The lists are great. I also love seeing what others choose to read.I am now also tempted by The Shootist.
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Chrissie do not forget to carry The Shootist over to the suggestion list if you like!
Now I understand--there are two threads! Got'cha.
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We often get questions of what qualifies so we set this thread up to help with those types of searches for something to fill that spot.
Lesle, my problem is finding my way to the SUGGESTION thread. I do want to add my vote for The Shootist. I have a hard time navigating b/c of my vision.
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Sandy I did both of your suggestions I hope it helps :)
Here is a link to the links haha! Under the "General" topic:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Anytime you, Chrissie or any Member has thoughts that will help them please let us know.
Do not forget Rosemarie has a handy thread called "Rosemarie, I have a Question"
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I know when I first started with the group I had know idea that a publisher had a lot to do with how a book is laid out. Edition could mean something totally different in my hand than what you have in yours!
Lesle wrote: "Your more than welcome!Anytime you, Chrissie or any Member has thoughts that will help them please let us know.
Do not forget Rosemarie has a handy thread called "Rosemarie, I have a Question"
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Thanks, Lesle. Th e moderators in this group are exceptionally helpful.
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Times change and needs change with all of us, so why not change what is not working.
Our Mods and myself want this to be an enjoyable experience. If you have a hard time navigating it....what fun is that! :)
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It is a good one!
Lesle, my lousy vision is the cause. I cannot skim read through a long list. Grouping threads nto sub-divisios helps.
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Take care!
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I have not read that one Marta! I will have to keep this one in mind!
700 Pages but a great Book, History and fiction, a final message about nature and how we live on the earth. I'm Sorry for my English I'm Italian
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I recently read Harvey Fergusson’s In Those Days, a novel with an interesting approach: It is a comparatively short book that covers a long span of years, about one man’s progress in New Mexico in the late 19th Century. Inevitably, given the abbreviated length of the novel, we see his life in a series of lightning flashes from different periods, with the darknesses in-between covered by a few transitional sentences.The book draws on Fergusson’s family history, particularly the life of his maternal grandfather, Franz Huning. Details of that history can be found in Robert F. Gish’s excellent Fergusson biography.
A sidelight: Reading the biography, one can readily see that virility was a strong value and impetus for Fergusson. So one might guess that having children and in particular preserving the male line would be of paramount importance for him. But in fact, no: His first marriage ended quickly in divorce, his second marriage ended quickly with his second wife’s premature death, and after that, he gave up on marriage altogether. One senses that he preferred his freedom, and he later humble-bragged about the dozens of women he had bedded. His Washington DC novel Capitol Hill opens with the protagonist rolled by a prostitute. There was a bit of Henry Miller in Fergusson wanting to peep out, and he left a late unpublished novel manuscript that Gish describes as being very explicit in both action and language.
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Rosemarie wrote: "He sounds like quite an individual, Patrick!"He is considered an important serious novelist of the American West, and New Mexico in particular - and yes, a very interesting fellow overall.
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I just started Lonesome Dove and I was surprised that it was from 1985.
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This is just a suggested list, they may or may not be on our Group's Bookshelf, but that is ok.
What is Frontier Western Adventure Classics (FWC): 30 years or older
*Takes place during the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century.
American Civil War, Indian Wars, the Mexican Wars, range wars
*Characters are Pioneer-Settlers-Natives-Miners-Plains-Old West-Mountains-Wilderness-Vast Landscapes-cowboys, ranchers-homesteaders-gunfighter-sheriffs/rangers, and/or frontiersmen.
*Focus is often given to the harsh, but beautiful landscape.
*Contains characters who show skillfulness, toughness, resilience, and vitality.
Western Novels:
True Grit by Charles Portis
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
Lonesome Dove (series) by Larry McMurtry
Centennial by James Michener
Scrib by David Ives
Little House in the Big Woods (series) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
These Is My Words by Nancy E. Turner
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Anything for Billy by Larry McMurtry
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
Petticoat Detective (series) by Margaret Brownley
The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout
The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey
The Searchers by Alan LeMay
Destry Rides Again by Max Brand
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Winter in the Blood by James Welch
Sea of Grass by Conrad Richter
Cimarron by Edna Ferber
Hidden Fires by Sandra Brown
Destiny’s Embrace by Beverly Jenkins
Simple Jess by Pamela Morsi
Journal of the Gun Years by Richard Matheson
Backwards to Oregon by Jae
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie, Jr
Hopalong Cassidy (series) by Clarence E. Mulford
Follow The Free Wind by Leigh Brackett
Sweet Carolina (The Heroines of the Golden West series) by Stephen Bly
A Mule For The Marquesa (aka The Professionals) by Frank O’Rourke
The Outlaw Josey Wales by Forrest Carter
The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols
Nonfiction Books About the West:
The West That Was by John Eggen
Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lessy
How The West Was Worn: Bustles and Buckskins on the Wild Frontiers by Chris Enss
How The West Was Worn: a History of Western Wear by Holly George-Warren & Michelle Freedman
The Look of the Old West by William Foster-Harris
The Wild West on 5 Bits a Day by Joan Tapper
The Cowboy at Work by Fay E. Ward
Italians of the Gold Rush by Carolyn Fregulia
Westering Women and the Frontier Experience 1800-1915 by Sandra L. Myres
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier by Joanna L. Stratton
Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel
The Old West Time-Life series
Pioneer Girl by Laura Ingalls Wilder, ed. Pamela Smith Hill
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History) by Benjamin Madley
Age of the Gunfighter by Joseph G. Rosa
On Gold Mountain by Lisa See
Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men by Winfred Blevins
The Mississippi Chinese: Between black and white by James W. Loewen
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as “Deadwood Dick” by Nat Love
The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder ed. William Anderson
Around Tombstone: Ghost Towns and Gunfights by Jane Eppinga
On The Way Home by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane
The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie
Geronimo: The True Story of America’s Most Ferocious Warrior by Geronimo, as taken down and edited by S.M. Barrett
The American Frontier: Pioneers, Settlers & Cowboys by William C. Davis
The American Frontier: Pioneers, Settlers & Cowboys ed. Colin Taylor, consultant William C. Sturtevant
Lord Grizzly by Frederick Manfred
Some Went West by Dorothy M. Johnson
Nonfiction Books about western movies:
Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves
by Art T. Burton
Brokeback Mountain from Story to Screenplay by Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry, and Diana Ossana
Once Upon A Time In Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone by Christopher Frayling
10,000 Ways To Die: A Director’s Take on the Spaghetti Western by Alex Cox
Wanted Dead or Alive: The American West in Popular Culture by Richard Aquila
Collections (Fiction and Nonfiction Shorts; Poetry):
Clair Huffaker’s Profiles of the American West
Great Ghost Stories of the Old West ed. Betty Baker
A Treasury of Western Folk Tales ed. B.A. Botkin
Great Tales of The West ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg
Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Family Collection
Old Deadwood Days by Estelline Bennett
Tales of Old-Time Texas by J. Frank Dobie
Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour: The Frontier Stories
Great Short Works of Willa Cather
Ballads of Arizona and the Old West by Harry Lucas
Stories for a Winter’s Night: Short Fiction by Native American Writers ed. Maurice Kenny
Half an Inch of Water by Percival Everett
A Gent From Bear Creek by Robert E. Howard
A Man Called Horse and other stories by Dorothy M. Johnson
Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Luke Short and Others by W.B. (“Bat”) Masterson 0486470148
Comics and Graphic Novels:
Preacher by Garth Ennis
Priest by Hyung Min-Woo
Red Ryder: The Crackajack Funnies
Children’s Westerns (fiction and nonfiction):
Cowboy Small by Lois Lenski
Calico the Wonder Horse, or The Saga of Stewy Stinker by Virginia Lee Burton
Off Like The Wind: the First Ride of the Pony Express
Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella by Susan Lowell
Sing Down The Moon by Scott O’Dell
Calavera Abecedario by Jeanette Winter
Mustang, Wild Spirit Of The West by Marguerite Henry
How I Became A Ghost by Tim Tingle
Buffalo Bird Girl by S.D. Nelson
The Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Cowboy & Octopus by Jon Scieszca
I have noticed that some of these do not fall into the 30 year or older.