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Alan Brown Le May (June 3, 1899 – April 27, 1964) was an American novelist and screenplay writer.. He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, The Searchers (1954) and The Unforgiven (1957). [1]
Western novels, films and pulps gave birth to Western comics, which were very popular, particularly from the late 1940s until c. 1967, when the comics began to turn to reprints. This can particularly be seen at Marvel Comics , where Westerns began c. 1948 and thrived until 1967, when one of their flagship titles, Kid Colt Outlaw (1949–1979 ...
This is a list of some notable authors in the western fiction genre. Part of a series on: Westerns; Media; Film; Television; Literature; Visual arts; Dime novels ...
High Lonesome is a 1950 American Technicolor Western film written and directed by Alan Le May, [1] who also wrote the classic Western novels The Searchers, The Unforgiven, and numerous screenplays. High Lonesome was Le May's only directorial credit. The picture stars John Drew Barrymore (billed as "John Barrymore, Jr.") and features Chill Wills ...
The Big Country (Hamilton novel) Big Little Book series; The Big Sky (novel) Black Hat Jack; Blood Meridian; Boone's Lick (novel) The Border Legion; The Border Trilogy; Borderlands (novel) Branded Outlaw; The Brave Bulls; The Brave Cowboy; Breakheart Pass (novel) Brimstone (Parker novel) Buckskin Brigades; Buffalo Girls; Butcher's Crossing; By ...
Western romance as a genre flourished within the structure of the pulp fiction novel, generally written simply for easy reading. [2] Cowboy romances such as these are extremely popular for their “rugged individualism…unadorned masculinity…and ultimate heroism” as William W Savage Jr. notes in his book, The Cowboy Hero: His Image in ...
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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 ...