Favorite Westerns

Favorite western books

The Ox-Bow Incident (1940) by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

The Searchers (1954) by Alan LeMay

The Twilighters (1955) by Noel Loomis

The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones (1956) by Charles Neider

The Hell Bent Kid (1957) by Charles O Locke

Butcher's Crossing (1960) by John Williams

Welcome to Hard Times (1960) by EL Doctorow

Monte Walsh (1963) by Jack Schaefer

Little Big Man (1964) by Thomas Berger

True Grit (1968) by Charles Portis

The Day the Cowboys Quit (1971) by Elmer Kelton

The Time it Never Rained (1973) by Elmer Kelton

The Cowboy and the Cossack (1973) by Clair Huffaker

Wild Times (1978) by Brian Garfield

Northfield (2007) by Johnny Boggs

Train Dreams (2011) by Denis Johnson

Epitaph (2015) by Mary Doria Russell

Favorite western authors (strong, consistent bodies of work)

Ed Gorman

Elmer Kelton

Brian Garfield

Luke Short

TV Olsen

Harry Whittingon

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