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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 ...
The Wister trace: classic novels of the American frontier (Jameson Books, 1987) Fleming, Robert E (October 1979). The Dime Novel Western. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Hamilton, Cynthia S. Western and hard-boiled detective fiction in America: from high noon to midnight (Macmillan, 1987) Jones, Daryl (c. 1978). The dime novel ...
Texas Fever (novel) The Last Kind Words Saloon; The Searcher (novel) The Thicket (novel) The Three Godfathers (novel) To the Last Man (Grey novel) Tonto Basin (novel) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (novel) The Trailsman; True Grit (novel) Tucket's Gold; Tucket's Ride
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
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 ...
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains is a 1902 novel by American author Owen Wister (1860–1938), set in Wyoming Territory during the 1880s. Detailing the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch, the novel was a landmark in the evolution of the western genre, as distinguished from earlier short stories and pulp dime novels.
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