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Old 01-03-2024, 12:54 PM   #11
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You named some classics already. Lonesome Dove is an incredible book.

Try Charles Portis' True Grit

Another classic author would be Elmore Leonard. He has some terrific westerns: Hombre, Valdez is Coming, Forty Lashes Less One and several others.

When it comes to Western movies, I favor the Italian spaghetti westerns with their grimier world view and moral ambiguity.

In the late sixties and early seventies, there was a group of English authors who became known as the Piccadilly Cowboys. They wrote books with the same mood as those spaghetti westerns. They have a cult following,so these old books have been resurrected as cheap ebooks.

kyrilson already mentioned George Gilman's Edge series (which I'll second).

Other good series from these guys would be:

Neil Hunter's Bodie the Stalker

James Marvin's Crow

Stand-alone, there's Richard Wyler's Incident at Butler's Station

Modern authors, I enjoy Peter Brandvold. I'd recommend his five book Colter Farrow series, available as a cheap digital omnibus: The Saga of Colter Farrow and his standalone: Blood Mountain

Charles G. West's Shoot-out at Broken Bow

Marcus Galloway's Death of a Bad Man
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