Does anyone know if old issues of The Roundup, the
journal for the Western Writers of America, are available?
In
the 60s there was a big and ongoing debate within the WWA about what
constitutes a western, should traditional westerns dominate, etc. I know
TV Olsen and Brian Garfield each wrote columns on the subject. Writers
such as Larry McMurtry, Charles Portis, and Edward Abbey were not
considered to be western writers by the old guard.
I would love to read those columns.
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