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Westerns Setting Time Appeal Types

Heroes Cowpuncher, rancher Gunfighter Gambler; card sharp Mountain man;

frontiersman Drifter; saddle bum Scout; tracker; guide Tenderfoot;

greenhorn Prospector

Army officer; Indian fighter

Sheriff; US Marshall; Texas Ranger; Secret Service

Pinkerton agent; railroad/bank detective; private investigator

Indian Crook

Villians Power hungry men—

politicians, corrupt lawmen, businessmen

Robbers—bank, trains, stagecoaches, card cheats, rustlers, claim jumpers

Gunsfighter; gun for hire; murderer

Gambler; card sharp

Confidence man Mountain man;

frontiersman Drifter; saddlebum Scout; tracker;

guide Vigilantes; raiders Indians General outlaws

Women Revered mother Sister to be

avenged Mentally unstable

daughter/wife

Pretty schoolmarm

Dressmaker/milliner

Soiled dove Unfaithful wife

Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams

Mistaken for non-fiction

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Flying U Ranch by B. M. Bower

Bertha Muzzy Bower

Flying U Ranch—three titles reprinted by University of Nebraska Press

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Dorothy M. Johnson Stories into

movies

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Keno by T. V. Olsen Honest crook

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Sackett by Louis L’Amour Sagas

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The Family Jensen: Hard Ride to Hell by William W. Johnstone

The Family Jensen series

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Blue-Eyed Devil by Robert B. Parker

Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch series

Series continued by Robert Knott

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Tenbow by Matt Braun

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Rough Justice by Lyle Brandt

Gideon Ryder series

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Black Justice by Jason Elder The Outcast

series

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Let It Bleed by J.R. Roberts Gunsmith series

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The Last Kind Words Saloon by Larry McMurty

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Western Writers of America Spur Award Winning Authors

Historical novels James D.

Crownover Patrick Dearen Henry Chappell Gary Schanbacher Thomas Cobb Larry Sweazy Brett Cogburn

Contemporary novels C. B. McKenzie James Lee Burke Anne Hillerman

Authors with western settings and themes in contemporary time.

Craig Johnson C. J. Box J. A. Jance Tony Hillerman

Patrick McManus Keith McCafferty Michael McGarrity Jon Talton Peter Bowen

NoveList Search Terms Genres (GN)

“Adventure stories” “Books to movies” “Historical fiction” “Literary fiction” “Mystery stories” “Weird Westerns” “Western

stories” “Western

romances”

Locations (SD) “Great Plains” Texas “The West” Wyoming

Subjects (SU) Cattle ranches Cowboys “Frontier and

pioneer life” “Gunfighters” “Mountain men” Outlaws Ranchers Rangelands Westerns

Appeal (AP) Atmospheric Bleak “Darkly

humorous” Melancholy Moving Moody Violent Character-driven Gritty Spare