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Story of the Texas Frontier
I expect Sixties Westerns that focus on Indians and their culture to be sad, bordering on melodramatic and even sensational when describing battles in the war against the Indians. Accordingly, I’m wary. But the drama in … -
Award-winning Western
I read Journey of the Dead as the 9th novel of 10 for the Book Awards Reading Challenge. It won the 1999 Golden Spur Award for Best Western Novel. Like Elmer Kelton and Douglas C. Jones, Loren Estleman is known for his n… -
Luke Short the Writer, Not the Gunfighter
Luke Short was the pen name of Frederick Glidden. He graduated from Mizzou in 1930 with a journalism degree and went to work for newspapers in the Midwest. He was forced into other professions on account of the Depressio… -
Modern-a-go-go Yet Retro Yet Conventional
In White Desert Loren Estleman skillfully combines the hard-boiled tone of PI whodunits with the conventions of westerns. In this one, apparently an installment in a series, a tough US Marshal goes after a gang of sadist… -
Dorothy Johnson
In 1953, the short story collection called Indian Country pulled together great stories like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and A Man Called Horse. It made Johnson a star among the public and critics, as a writer of li… -
Tough Indians, Hardy Women, Gentle Cowpokes
I read Indian Country by Dorothy Johnson for the Short Story Challenge The ten years after WWII were a good time to be a reader. Mass circulation magazines like Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post printed vibrant shor… -
More Little Big Horn
I picked up Lewis B. Patten's Custer novel The Red Sabbath last night. I was not planning on reading half of it but I did anyway. Waiting for a terribly long appointment this morning I finished it. I'm not often taken wi… -
Exceptional Western
The Spirit Horses by Lou Cameron isan outstanding Indian fighting western. It tied with The Court Martial ofGeorge Armstrong Custer by Douglas C. Jones for the Spur Award in the category of BestWestern Novel in… -
Dancing with Snark
Louis L'Amour's Last of the Breed is about MAJ Joe, a Lakota Sioux Air Force pilot who's shot down over Soviet airspace during the Gorbachev era and sent to a secret prison camp in Siberia. He gets the corn soup beaten o… -
Gunslingin' Western
The Gunfight at the OK Corral has been the subject of so many westerns that like Custer at the LBH it makes up its own genre. What makes Loren Estleman's take in Bloody Season (1999) unique and worth reading is the ha…
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