Western article from 1985

From the September 20, 1985 edition of  The Day. "Western Novels Ride High Again" by Edwin McDowell.

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Some western writers contend that the western fell  into decline because of the rise of the "adult western," books with a western setting that are really about sex and violence. But its fall from popularity, in bookstores, at the box office and on television, more probably resulted from the black-white world that it projected, a world that struck many people as unrealistic and offensive.