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Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by scholars [1] to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called "the most popular western novel of all time".
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 ...
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]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 Trailsman series was created by John Joseph Messmann aka Jon Messmann. He wrote most of the first 200 books in the series before retiring in the late 1990s. Messmann died in 2004. He also wrote many novels in the classic Nick Carter series. Messmann later created another western series featuring Canyon O'Grady, a western detective.