Western Literature

warlock
butchers crossing

there is a series of 'man with no name' books by Joe Millard. i've never read them though so i cannot reccomend

>>9829241
Keep pushing into McCarthy's catalogue
Try churning through the series starting with All the Pretty Horses

>>9829241
hondo is supposed to be great. ill also recommend the ox-bow incident.

butcher's crossing is essential

>>9829241
True Grit
Hombre

>>9829241
Forty Lashes Less One by Elmore Leonard.

He wrote westerns before becoming a crime novelist. That's the only one I've read, but it was enjoyable -- evocative and a page-turner.

Last Stand at Papago Wells by Louis Lamour. A short, gripping western. If you have any kind of affinity or feel for westerns, Lamour's images and language immediately grab you and put you under a spell.

The Gun Fight by Richard Matheson. Another gripper that's wonderfully told by moving from pov to pov of different characters in a small western town as an adolescent prevarication touching on "honor" gradually, believably escalates toward a completely unnecessary but seemingly inevitable gunfight. The ending was slightly dissatisfying but on the whole a top-notch book with vivid characters and strong dramatic scenes rich in psychological conflict. Not the kind of deep psychology you might find in a great novel, but very compelling and believably drawn nonetheless.

>>9829241
Zane Grey and Max Brand

"The Virginian" - Owen Wister

>>9829241
Louis Lamour obviously.

>>9829241
Anything by Walt Coburn, old-school writer.

>>9829412
I love True Grit

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The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard

>>9829241
The Crossing

>>9830179
seconded so hard