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Westerns

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour

by Elinor Teele

January 30th, 2008

If you meet a quiet, rugged kind of a fella with an almost superhuman knowledge of tracking, botany, and the lawful ways of the West, don’t challenge him in a gunfight. You’ll lose. Keep an eye out for smooth-talking, rich, and handsome men. They’re not to be trusted and they never end tidily. But a trim girl with smiling eyes who knows how to ride a horse, be she a reformed prostitute or a rancher’s daughter…well, expect to see her settling down any day now.

This article is filed under Fiction Reviews, Short Stories, Westerns.

The Works of Max Crawford

by John Holt

April 24th, 2007

Being a serious writer in a time when swill by corrupt business tycoons, politicians and not-funny comics generates advances well into seven figures is difficult, frustrating and at times disheartening.

This article is filed under Fiction Reviews, Westerns.

Stewball – by Peter Bowen

by John Holt

April 24th, 2007

I’ll begin by saying that I enjoyed immensely the first seven or eight novels in Peter Bowen’s unique Gabriel DuPre detective series.

This article is filed under Fiction Reviews, Westerns.

The Big Country: How the West Finally Won

by Elinor Teele

March 26th, 2007

It’s not a classic in the sense of Casablanca or Citizen Kane, but it’s a kind of cinematic cipher. It opens your eyes to the possibilities still inherent in the Western and shows you its true star. Not a man on a horse or a gunfighter at high noon, but the West itself.

This article is filed under Movies, Movies & TV, Westerns, Writers.

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