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Originally Posted by Stanart
It's been a long time since I read any, but I enjoyed most of Louis Lamour's books. But for a really unforgettable western I'd recommend Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.
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I agree with both statements but I sure wish I could forget "The Lonesome Dove" & wish I hadn't wasted the time to read it. However, that said, many people really liked it.
While not exactly a western, it has a western flavor - "The Last of the Breed" by Louis L'Amour. It is a modern story of an Indian who was a pilot in the US Air Force who was captured by Soviets and escaped on foot across Siberia to and via kayak to Alaska. Has a lot of the "living off the land" type of things you might find in a western.
Also Tony Hillerman writes a pretty good modern day western detective stories with a Navajo detective solving cases on the reservation.