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Offline billy_56081

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Good western Fiction.
« on: November 05, 2009, 01:29:19 AM »
I have pretty much read all the La Moore books, any suggestions for authors that are as colorful and entertaining.
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Re: Good western Fiction.
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2009, 03:27:20 PM »
Ive read the mountainman series but my suggestion is just start over on L.L.'s books
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Re: Good western Fiction.
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2009, 03:35:45 PM »
The mountain man series is a good one, I enjoy but am not as enamored with the Johnstone books that are coming out now. I think they are unfinished books that his son finished after his death.
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Re: Good western Fiction.
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2009, 07:22:54 AM »
Larry McMurtry has written a few.  He had a four book series that was released about five years ago that I enjoyed.  I think book #1 was The Sin Killer.  You need to read all four.  Dead Man Walking, Streets of Laredo, Lonesome Dove - just to name some more.  Sometimes he has some unexpected turns that are a little over the top - but that is his trademark I suppose.  He even wrote a biography of Crazy Horse.
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Re: Good western Fiction.
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2009, 02:44:48 PM »
 ;) Billy, I haven't read that much fiction about the old west... It is a time that is my favorite to study... Mostly I have tried to dig into biographical works on those old characters... I n a way it is more fascinating that any fiction that can be written... I just this summer my girl friend bought me The Avenging Fury of the Plains.. It is new bio. on Liver Eating Johnson. I found it awesome... But he has always interested me... I attended his reburial at Cody.. Doc. Holiday was another one who caught my interest, plus many others... One book I truely enjoy was Men to Match My Mountains...It is a book of two to maybe five page sketches of men and women who lived in the backcountry of Wyoming from roughly 1900-1990. Gave my Dad a copy for Christmas.. He loved it and is not much of a hunter....Tom Horn was another interesting character.
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Re: Good western Fiction.
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2009, 02:59:44 PM »
Quote from: charles p on November 09, 2009, 07:22:54 AM
Larry McMurtry has written a few.  He had a four book series that was released about five years ago that I enjoyed.  I think book #1 was The Sin Killer.  You need to read all four.  Dead Man Walking, Streets of Laredo, Lonesome Dove - just to name some more.  Sometimes he has some unexpected turns that are a little over the top - but that is his trademark I suppose.  He even wrote a biography of Crazy Horse.


I'm reading Lonesome dove at this time.


Quote from: Wyo. Coyote Hunter on November 09, 2009, 02:44:48 PM
;) Billy, I haven't read that much fiction about the old west... It is a time that is my favorite to study... Mostly I have tried to dig into biographical works on those old characters... I n a way it is more fascinating that any fiction that can be written... I just this summer my girl friend bought me The Avenging Fury of the Plains.. It is new bio. on Liver Eating Johnson. I found it awesome... But he has always interested me... I attended his reburial at Cody.. Doc. Holiday was another one who caught my interest, plus many others... One book I truely enjoy was Men to Match My Mountains...It is a book of two to maybe five page sketches of men and women who lived in the backcountry of Wyoming from roughly 1900-1990. Gave my Dad a copy for Christmas.. He loved it and is not much of a hunter....Tom Horn was another interesting character.


The Journal of Lewis and Clark was a very good read. WOW thet had to be some experience.
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Re: Good western Fiction.
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2009, 10:08:42 AM »
+1 on the Lewis and Clark Journals.  My wife gave me a seven volume box set - probably 2500 pages.  Took me about two months to get through it all.  Enjoyed the footnotes as much as the entries.  Published by Univ of Nebraska I think.
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Re: Good western Fiction.
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2009, 01:31:33 PM »
Elmer Kelton is, to me, the top of the heap when it comes to western fiction. I have read most of Louis L'Amour's books and he was excellent, especially the Sackett series. In my opinion Kelton was slightly better. Kelton died a month or two ago.
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Re: Good western Fiction.
« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2009, 01:45:49 PM »
Thank you I think I have read some of Elmers books, I'll look them up in the library
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Re: Good western Fiction.
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2009, 04:40:28 PM »
Ralph Compton's cattle drive series of books are pretty darned good. Some of the newer titles are written by other authers and have his name attached. Since he passed away a few years ago I'm pretty sure he wasn't involved in those. I've read some of those and they aren't bad mind you, just seems odd to me.
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Re: Good western Fiction.
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2011, 08:08:34 PM »
Read "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy, a brutal and probably honest description of the old west. The author has also written quite a few other books made into movies that you might recognize.

The Road, No Country for Old Men, and  All the Pretty Horses,   
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Re: Good western Fiction.
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2011, 04:10:07 AM »
Trail of the Spanish Bit. This is the first book of a great series on the plains indians by Don Coldsmith of Emporia, KS. A bit more info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Coldsmith
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