Just Reading Material...

[St. George]

I posted this over on the forum that's dedicated to 'Books and Movies' - and I just 'know' that this'll be seen as 'heresy' - but there are other writers of Westerns than Louis L'Amour...

Shocking, I know - but if you'll bear with me - here are a few that I'd recommend for your perusal when you're stuck up in the Line Shack, this winter.

J. Frank Dobie - Lost mines of the Southwest - 'Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver' and 'Coronado's Children'

Lauran Paine - he actually wrote 'The Open Range Men' - later to become the movie 'Open Range'.

Clarence Mulford - the original 'Hopalong Cassidy was wildly 'different from black-clad 'Hoppy'

Matt Braun - try - 'One Last Town' - about Bill Tighlman

Dan Parkinson - 'Brother Wolf'

Theodore Roosevelt - 'the Rough Riders'

Loren D. Estleman - his protagonist carries a Deane-Adams...

Elmore Leonard - "Forty Lashes Less One' - and there's a compilation just out of the stories he wrote for the old 'pulps' that's truly well-worth the read.

Brian Garfield - 'Wild Times'

Will Henry - 'Chiracauhua'

Robert Steelman - 'Blood and Dust'

Donald Hamilton - didn't 'just' write the 'Matt Helm' series.

Luke Short - 'Bought With a Gun'

Elmer Kelton - 'The Day the Cowboys Quit'

Gordon D. Shirreffs - 'The Ghost Dancers'

Fairfax Downey - "Indian Fighting Army'

Larry McMurtry - 'Lonesome Dove'

Zane Grey - 'Tappan's Burro'

Jack Schaefer - the original version of  'Monte Walsh' is  far better...

Alan LeMay - wrote 'The Searchers' - try -'Winter Range'

Dee Brown - 'The Galvanized Yankees'

And then - there are the various 'collections' from those who've won 'The Spur Award' - awarded by the Western Writers of America - all of whom are worth a good look.

The 'new' writers - Ralph Compton, Johnny Boggs and the like are buildiing thier followings as well.

And for those who still look to Louis L'Amour - there's now available  'The Sackett Companion' - giving all of the backgrounds of his best-loved stories.

These are by no means 'all' of the Western writers out there - but I'll recommend these - and you can add your favorites as you choose.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

[Forty Rod]

Thanks for the reading list.

Let me put in a plug for Janice Holt Giles, gone but not forgotten.

[Silver Creek Slim]

I friend loaned my "The Westerners" by Dee Brown. I haven't looked at it yet. What is the consensus on this book?

Slim

[Forty Rod]

Everything I've seen by Brown is excellent.

Also, Max Brand isn't too bad if you're just looking for light stuff.

[Chantilly]

Very well researched book -

James D McLaird - "Calamity Jane"

[Silver Creek Slim]

Thanks, Forty Rod.

Slim