For readers exploring the Western genre for the first time, books like Lonesome Dove, True Grit, and Open Season are a great ...

Louis L'Amour was the king of western novels, and many of his books and short stories have been adapted into classic movies. Across a four-decade career, L'Amour crafted dozens of novels and stories ...

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Maybe it’s because my dad had old movies playing on the TV throughout my childhood, or maybe it’s because I grew up in rural California, where it was easy to imagine cowboys and campfires. Nowadays, I ...

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A strong sense of place can deeply influence a story, and in some cases, the setting can even feel like a character itself. This week’s literary geography quiz celebrates novels set in the past or ...

EDUCATION BEFORE VERDUN — Arnold Zweig—Viking ($2.50). Eight years ago U. S. readers were mostly unaware that the late great German Army had been made up of human beings. To the few that read it, a ...

Set in the rugged American West of the 1870s, Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove is often referred to as “the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness.” The book—which now features a ...