The classic Western story?

[Boston John Doucette]

The hardheaded son who, against his father's wishes, enlists and goes off to war...

Upon his return, the son finds his father's land surrounded by bad guys and the old man helpless against them..

The son and his faithful sidekick take on the bad guys... the son is wounded and nursed back to health by a beautiful girl from the local tribe... she falls in love with him, but it can never be! He loves the good looking rich girl...

The good guys and the bad guys have a series of skirmishes throughout the story, and then a final, climactic fight. The sidekick is killed, the father and son are reconciled, the son gets the girl he wants, and the other girl wanders off into the hills to mend her broken heart.

Louis L' Amour?
Max Brand?
Zane Grey?

Nope...

Sir Walter Scott--- "Ivanhoe" 

BJD

[Stoney Pete]

You got way too much time on your hands pard.

[Birdgun Quail]

Well, it ain't no worse than folks who say the Star Wars movies are actually Westerns...