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I like to read westerns, but I like books that are more gritty and violent. I also don't like westerns that are just mysteries in disguise. Having said that:
I loved Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove. I haven't read the three follow-ups yet, though I hear good things about them. But the first one is a modern classic.
Elmore Leonard's westerns have been mentioned.
Charles G. West and Jory Sherman wrote westerns that are good without being gruesome.
There's also an author, Ralph Compton who died a few years back, but continues to have westerns published. To the publisher's credit, at this point his name is a brand and the actual author gets credit on the cover. Authors writing under his banner that I've enjoyed are Marcus Galloway, Joseph West and David Robbins.
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