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Westerns
Novels of the Old West

 

Tragg's Choice - Clifton Adams
Little Big Man, The Return of Little Big Man ­ Thomas Berger
Ghost-Town Gold - Clifford Blair
Ambush at Torture Canyon - Max Brand
The Stone Garden:The Epic Life of Billy the Kid - Bill Brooks
The Big Lonely - Sam Brown
The Ox-Bow Incident - Walter Clark
The Guns of Peralta - Richard Clarke
Powder River - Ralph W. Cotton
Bloody Season (account of 1881 gunfight at O. K. Corral)

- Loren D. Estleman
Rounders 3: The Rounders, The Great Wedding, The Orange County Cowboys - Max Evans
Return of the Long Riders - Cliff Farrell
Cimarron (epic Western set in Oklahoma) - Edna Ferber
Double-Cross Canyon - Peter Field
Stranger from the Tonto - Zane Grey
The Best Short Stories of Bret Harte - Bret Harte
Outlaw's Empire - Ray Hogan
A Creek Called Wounded Knee - Douglas C. Jones
The Far Canyon - Elmer Kelton
The Cherokee Trail, Long Ride Home - Louis L'Amour

The MagicWagon - Joe R. Lansdale

The Searchers - Alan Le May
The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories - Elmore Leonard
The Gun Fight - Richard Matheson
Comanche Moon - Larry McMurtry
The Man from Bar-20 - Clarence E. Mulford
Tackett - Lyn Nofziger
Arrow in the Sun - Theodore V. Olsen
A Hanging in Sweetwater - Stephen Overholser
A Gun for Johnny Deere - Wayne D. Overholser
The Searcher - F. M. Parker
Gunman's Rhapsody (a re-telling of the legend ofWyatt Earp and the O.K. Corral) - Robert B. Parker
Dry Bones in the Valley - William MacLeod Raine

The Proud Sheriff - Eugene Manlove Rhodes
The Last Free Range ­ James A. Ritchie
The Ordeal of Hogue Bynell - Frank Roderus
The Shootist - Glendon Fred Swarthout
The Sergeant's Lady - Miles Hood Swarthout
Incident at Twenty-Mile - Trevanian
The Virginian - Owen Wister
The Law in Charity - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Blaine's Law, The Smoking Hills - Carter Travis Young

 

Westerns
in Large Print

Beneath a Dakota Cross - Stephen Bly
Mountain Maverick - W. F. Bragg
The Bandit of the Black Hills - Max Brand
Beyond the Wild Missouri - Walt Coburn
Temporary Duty - Will Cook
Bloody Season - Loren D. Estleman
Riding High - T. T. Flynn
The Rustlers of Pecos County - Zane Grey
Bugles in the Afternoon - Ernest Haycox

Hangman's Valley - Ray Hogan
Rambling Top Hand - William Hopson
In the Big Country - John Jakes

 Sheriff of Red Wolf - Archie Joscelyn
Rustlers of the Rio Grande - Paul Evan Lehman
The Searchers - Alan Le May
Rifle Pass - Dean Owen
Gunfire at Timberline - C. E. Parker
The Assassins - F. M. Parker
Ride a Tall Horse - Lewis B. Patten
Showdown at Skeleton Flat - Orlando Rigoni
The Law of the Gun - Charles Alden Seltzer
Showdown in Sonora - Gordon D. Shirreffs
Buchanan Says No (first in the Buchanan series) - Jonas Ward 

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updated October 15, 2004