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The Big Sky is a 1947 Western novel by A. B. Guthrie Jr. It is the first of six novels in Guthrie's sequence dealing with the Oregon Trail and the development of Montana from 1830, the time of the mountain men, to "the cattle empire of the 1880s to the near present."
The American frontier, also known as the "Old West", popularly known as the "Wild West", encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
The project for the Great Books of the Western World began at the University of Chicago, where the president, Robert Hutchins, worked with Mortimer Adler to develop there a course of a type originated by John Erskine at Columbia University in 1921, with the innovation of a "round table" approach to reading and discussing great books among professors and undergraduates.
A selection of historical novels set by epoch and author. (accessed 08-2010) Annotated list of historical novels for children and teens Anchorage Public Library; History networking Authors, Publishers, Editors, Researchers. Suggest tools and sources, help with reading list, discussions challenges. Network, promote books or find work.
The Pulp Western: A Popular History of the Western Fiction Magazine in America (Borgo Press, 1983). Durham, Philip. "The Cowboy and the Myth Makers." Journal of Popular Culture (1967) 1#1 pp: 58–62. Frye, Steven, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Literature of the American West (Cambridge UP, 2016) Jones, Daryl (c. 1978). The dime novel western ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; ... This is a list of some notable authors in the Western fiction genre. Part of a series on ...
The Longarm books were a series of western novels featuring the character of Custis Long, who is nicknamed Longarm, a U.S. Deputy Marshal based in Denver, Colorado in the 1880s. The nickname plays on his surname and role as the "long arm of the law". [1] The series was written by "Tabor Evans", a house pseudonym used by a number of authors at ...
Readership of Western fiction reached a new low in the first decade of the twenty-first century, and most bookstores, outside a few western states, only carry a small number of Western fiction books. Nevertheless, several Western fiction series are published monthly, such as The Trailsman, Slocum, Longarm and The Gunsmith; these are all adult ...