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Mar 1, 2024 · By Josephine Quinn. Random House; 592 pages; $38. Bloomsbury; £30. A sked what he thought of Western civilisation, Mahatma Gandhi is said to have quipped that such a thing “would be a good idea ...
- Defining The Western Genre
- 21 Western Novels Every Man Should Read
- The Log of A Cowboy by Andy Adams
- Riders of The Purple Sage by Zane Grey
- The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- Shane by Jack Schaefer
- Hondo by Louis L’Amour
- The Searchers by Alan Le May
- The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey
- The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout
Simply being set in the West does not a Western make; if so, novels like East of Edenor Angle of Reposewould be found here. While not every novel will satisfy every marker, each book listed here includes most of the following elements: Geographically set west of the Mississippi River.While some very early Westerns are set in the likes of Kentucky a...
Given the above set of criteria for inclusion, and selected for overall excellence in plot, characterization, readability, and so on, here are my picks for the best Western novels ever written, arranged chronologically by their date of publication:
Among the short list of veryearly Westerns (pre-1910 or so), you’ll often see Owen Wister’s The Virginian(1902) at the top. I didn’t find that title very readable though, and in fact gave up about halfway through. The Log of a Cowboy, on the other hand, was remarkably readable and easily held my attention the whole way. Pulling together various rea...
Grey was the early king of the Western dime novel. His output was prolific, but the more he wrote, the more negative reviews he received from critics. (Critics are always skeptical of folks who seemingly write too much!) I don’t think those criticisms have merit, as I find much of Grey’s work to be eminently readable and entertaining today, especia...
Cowboys Art Croft and Gil Carter have ridden into Bridger’s Wells, Nevada to find a charged atmosphere. Cattle have been disappearing (likely stolen) and a man named Kinkaid has just been murdered. The townsfolk are mad as heck and looking for justice. Factions form almost immediately; one group wants to capture the suspected culprits on the up and...
Shaneis considered by many the best Western novel of all-time. It’s compact, but that just means every page is stocked with virile energy — much like Shane himself, the book’s main character. Narrated by young Bob Starrett, the story follows his version of events in a small outpost in the Wyoming Territory. Seemingly out of nowhere, the mysterious ...
No mention of Western novels is complete without a nod to L’Amour. His books alone could keep you reading for about a decade at a pace of one a month. I read a handful, and have to agree with most others that Hondois his best. Interestingly, the John Wayne film came first, and L’Amour then novelized that (although the movie was inspiredby a L’Amour...
If there’s a Moby Dick story to be had in this list, it’s Le May’s The Searchers. While the movie is often seen as one of the greatest Western films of all-time, the book deserves its place of recognition as well. With one of the most devastating openings on this list, a Comanche raid destroys the entire Edwards family, killing the men folk and kid...
Edward Abbey is a legend of environmental, anarchist, and Western writing. He penned essays, novels, and non-fiction works, including Desert Solitaire, which makes an appearance on a number of Best Non-Fic Books of All-Time lists. The Brave Cowboyindeed falls into the Western novel category, but it’s also more than that. Particularly, it’s a lament...
How many different ways can the story of a Western gunman really be told? Glendon Swarthout took that challenge and created the exceptional tale of dying gunman J.B. Books. Having been diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer, the nefarious gunfighter decides that he’ll spend his dying days in El Paso. The town is none-too-happy about his being ther...
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Mar 2, 2023 · The book particularly shines in the way it uses 14 lives to back up its central arguments: that the "West's" claim to being the inheritors of the Greek and Roman civilizations of antiquity is a relatively new idea; that both "Western" and "Eastern" cultures had laid claim to Greek or Roman legacies (but rarely both); and that the Greek and Roman civilizations weren't all that "Western" to ...
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Mar 2, 2023 · Synopsis. From a Roman matriarch to a British Prime Minister, MacSweeney's masterly dissection of the myths of Western civilisation is told through the lives of fourteen emblematic figures. A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives.
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- Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1) Larry McMurtry.
- True Grit Charles Portis.
- Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West Cormac McCarthy.
- All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1) Cormac McCarthy.
May 16, 2016 · 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. Novels, nonfiction, comics, and more essential reads of the American West.
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Feb 29, 2024 · September 22, 2024. The book is a thought-provoking exploration of the myriad influences that shaped what we now recognize as Western civilization. It attempts to broaden the typical Western-centric historical narrative by tracing the roots of what we now call "the West" across a vast 4,000-year timeline.
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