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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.
Overholser won the 1953 First Spur Award for Best Western Novel for Law Man using the pseudonym Lee Leighton. Law Man was made into the motion picture Star in the Dust, starring John Agar and Richard Boone (and Clint Eastwood in his first - uncredited - Western role), in 1956. [1] In 1955 he won the 1954 (second) Spur Award for The Violent Land ...
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)
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 ...
The book was also adapted in 2012 into a blockbuster film starring Suraj Sharma, which won four Oscar awards including best director for Ang Lee. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is among ...
During 2000, the official Spur Award website defined both categories as "book-length novels... dependent in whole or in part on settings, characters, conditions, or customs indigenous to the American West or early frontier," the distinction being that Best Western Novel was for works "90,000 words or less" while Best Novel of the West was for ...
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.
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 ...