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2. Western fiction - Wikipedia

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   Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. [1] Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 20th century and Louis L'Amour from the mid-20th century. [2][3] The genre peaked around the early 1960s, largely due ...

3. Warlock (Hall novel) - Wikipedia

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   Warlock. (Hall novel) Warlock is a Western novel by the American author Oakley Hall. It was published on September 5, 1958 by Viking Press. [1] The story is set in the early 1880s, in a fictional southwestern mining town called Warlock and its vicinity. The novel's characters and many elements of its plot are loosely based on actual people and ...

4. List of Western fiction authors - Wikipedia

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   Jackson Cole, (pseudonym of Peter B. Germano) Ralph Compton (1934–1999) Robert J. Conley (1940–2014) Will Cook (William Everett Cook) (1921–1964) Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886–1940) James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) Barry Cord, (pseudonym of Peter B. Germano) Ralph Cotton.

5. The Virginian (novel) - Wikipedia

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   The Virginian. (novel) The Virginian (otherwise titled The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains) is a 1902 novel by the American author Owen Wister (1860–1938), set in Wyoming Territory during the 1880s. It describes the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch and is considered the first true fictional western ever written, aside from short stories ...

6. Longarm (book series) - Wikipedia

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   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 series was written by "Tabor Evans", a house pseudonym used by a number of authors at Jove Books. Lou Cameron helped create the character and wrote a number of the ...

7. Dime Western - Wikipedia

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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 ...

8. Riders of the Purple Sage - Wikipedia

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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".

9. Great Books of the Western World - Wikipedia

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   The Great Books (second edition) Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the great books in 54 volumes. The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series drawn from Western Civilization: the book must be ...