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Best Westerns
Posted on 10/29/18 at 7:52 pm
Posted on 10/29/18 at 7:52 pm
Looking to get a few books for my birthday and some family members have asked what I’d like. Really have been wanting to read some westerns now that I’ll have some time soon. What do y’all recommend? I have been looking into the lonesome dove series and some Louis L’Amour.
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Posted on 10/29/18 at 10:09 pm to GeauxHouston
L’Amour is solid.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:04 pm to JonTigerFan11
Saw that prob getting that one.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:04 pm to Rockbrc
Hondo?
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:42 pm to GeauxHouston
Have you checked out McMurtry's other western novels?
Elmore Leonard started as a western writer. He provided the source material for the classic movies 3:10 To Yuma, The Tall T, and Hombre
AB Guthrie won a Pulitzer for The Way West (about the first wagon train on the Oregon Train in 1843). He also wrote The Big Sky, about a journey up the Missouri River in 1830
Paul I. Wellman is a favorite of mine, more a historical novelist than a western writer: The Iron Mistress (Jim Bowie) and especially Magnificent Destiny (Sam Houston and Andrew Jackson) are definitely worth checking out
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
Flashman and The Redskins (part of the wonderfully entertaining Flashman series) by George Macdonald Fraser
The Travels of Jamie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor is another Pulitzer winner about a wagon train, though I have not read it
You also might want to read The Virginian by Owen Wister (1902) to see where it all began
Elmore Leonard started as a western writer. He provided the source material for the classic movies 3:10 To Yuma, The Tall T, and Hombre
AB Guthrie won a Pulitzer for The Way West (about the first wagon train on the Oregon Train in 1843). He also wrote The Big Sky, about a journey up the Missouri River in 1830
Paul I. Wellman is a favorite of mine, more a historical novelist than a western writer: The Iron Mistress (Jim Bowie) and especially Magnificent Destiny (Sam Houston and Andrew Jackson) are definitely worth checking out
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
Flashman and The Redskins (part of the wonderfully entertaining Flashman series) by George Macdonald Fraser
The Travels of Jamie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor is another Pulitzer winner about a wagon train, though I have not read it
You also might want to read The Virginian by Owen Wister (1902) to see where it all began
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