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2008 - Best Western Short Novel: "Tallgrass" By Sandra Dallas (2) 2009 - Best Western Short Novel: "Another Man's Moccasins by Craig Johnson; 2010 - Best Western Short Novel: "Far Bright Star" by Robert Olmstead; 2011 - Best Western Short Novel: "Snowbound" by Richard S. Wheeler (3) 2012 - Best Western Short Novel: "Legacy of a Lawman" by ...
The first book was published in 1978 and new ones were added at a rate of approximately one a month through 2015. In addition to the regular series, there was a series of "giant editions" which were longer novels. The Longarm series was a mainstay of the "adult western" genre which arose in the 1970s.
It was introduced for the awards' 1988 iteration, replacing the earlier category of Best Historical Novel. [1] For a period, the Spur Awards included a Best Western Novel category as well as a Best Novel of the West category. John Mort explains the distinction in his book Read the High Country: "WWA defines Westerns... in market terms. A ...
S. Savage Range; Scarlet Plume; Shalako (novel) Shane (novel) The Ship of Souls; Sisters (Lynne Cheney novel) The Sisters Brothers; Six-Gun Snow White; Slocum (westerns)
A dime Western is a modern term for Western-themed dime novels, which spanned the era of the 1860s–1900s.Most would hardly be recognizable as a modern western, having more in common with James Fennimore Cooper's Leatherstocking saga, but many of the standard elements originated here: a cool detached hero, a frontiersman (later a cowboy), a fragile heroine in danger of the despicable outlaw ...
Slocum Westerns are the longest running series of Westerns ever written, encompassing over 400 books, all of which are published under the pen name Jake Logan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The books have been written by a number of authors, and all feature John Slocum as the protagonist.
HOT SPRINGS - A new book from two 1980 Madison High graduates covers "moonshine, murder and mayhem" in the Blue Ridge region of the Appalachian Highlands, including a number of Madison County ...
Hall's most famous novel, Warlock was a finalist for the 1958 Pulitzer Prize and has since been hailed as a classic of American West literature. [4] Michelle Latiolais, a professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, described Warlock as belonging to the "pantheon of western masterpieces" alongside Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and John Williams's Butcher's Crossing.