Western eBooks

jaxx6166 · 02-12-2010, 12:15 AM

Anyone able to recommend any good ones? The only requirement is it must be digital

I'm going away on Monday and am kind of craving the genre..

dreams · 02-12-2010, 02:49 AM

I hope you are going some place for relaxation and not work on Monday.

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (at feedbooks) is one that I've seen mentioned a few times.

Max Brand (pen name) is another author I've seen mentioned. I just checked a page in Wikipedia on him.

Quote:

Faust managed a massive outpouring of fiction, rivaling Edgar Wallace and Isaac Asimov as one of the most prolific authors of all time. He wrote more than 500 novels for magazines and almost as many stories of shorter length. His total literary output is estimated to have been between 25,000,000 and 30,000,000 words. Most of his books and stories were turned out at breakneck rate, sometimes as quickly as 12,000 words in the course of a weekend. New books based on magazine serials or were previously unpublished continue to appear, so that Faust has averaged a new book every four months for seventy-five years. Beyond this, some work by him is newly reprinted every week of every year, in one format or another, somewhere in the world.

Zane Grey and Max Brand books are in the MR library.

Westerns at feedbooks
Westerns at manybooks.net
Westerns on MR

Moejoe · 02-12-2010, 04:35 AM

Max Brand. One of the finest pulp writers and finest writers ever to put finger to typewriter key. Brand (Faust) only wrote his tales for the money and to keep up his lifestyle. He also wrote classical poetry that is now all but forgotten. The poetry was his true passion, the pulps paid his bills. But you'll never find a finer pulp writer.

Manybooks and Gutenberg has plenty of his stuff. I'll send you my modified ePubs of his work and a short biography too, if you'd like.

jaxx6166 · 02-12-2010, 02:34 PM

I found The Outlaw Kid in a secondhand store today. Picked it up for $2.00. Already on chapter 4. It's an interesting read so far, different in style from what I usually read. Then again, that is to be expected for a book that's 82 years old.

There were shelves upon shelves of Max Brand and Louis L'Amour.

I also found some of the book of the new sun and an original 1982 TPB of The Elfstones of Shannara. I was in heaven. The girlfriend, was not. She sat on a stack of books and played ipod touch games while I had a nerdgasm all over the store. =)

HarryT · 02-13-2010, 12:44 PM

MR user crutledge has posted a very large number of Westerns to our book upload forums. I'm sure you'll find lots to read there!

wallcraft · 02-13-2010, 06:18 PM

I read many Louis L'Amour westerns when I was younger, and now most of them are available as ebooks. Three of my favorites are Flint, A Man Called Noon, and Reilly's Luck.

HorridRedDog · 02-13-2010, 11:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wallcraft

I read many Louis L'Amour westerns when I was younger,....

Dito that. One that I have read several times is To the Far Blue Mountains.

It's the start of the Sacketts in America. But WAY back when the west was no so far west.

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SomeThingWickd · 02-14-2010, 12:22 AM

I just finished the Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch westerns by Robert B. Parker, who just recently passed away.....

The movie Appaloosa is actually based on the first of the 4 books he wrote. (Blue Eyed Devil, the 4th book is due out sometime this year...) Brilliant Westerns by any account.

I recommend them highly...

dreams · 02-14-2010, 12:27 AM

Welcome to MR, SomeThingWickd!

Thanks for the recommendation. Stop by our Introduce Yourself Forum and, well, introduce yourself, so we can all welcome you here.

BenG · 02-14-2010, 03:38 PM

Amazon has The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard for the Kindle.

desertgrandma · 02-14-2010, 06:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SomeThingWickd

I just finished the Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch westerns by Robert B. Parker, who just recently passed away.....

The movie Appaloosa is actually based on the first of the 4 books he wrote. (Blue Eyed Devil, the 4th book is due out sometime this year...) Brilliant Westerns by any account.

I recommend them highly...

Welcome to MobileRead, SomeThingWickd.

You might want to try our "Introduce Yourself" thread so that we can welcome you properly.....

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=49

jaxx6166 · 02-19-2010, 03:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SomeThingWickd

I just finished the Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch westerns by Robert B. Parker, who just recently passed away.....

The movie Appaloosa is actually based on the first of the 4 books he wrote. (Blue Eyed Devil, the 4th book is due out sometime this year...) Brilliant Westerns by any account.

I recommend them highly...

I love Apaloosa, I had a feeling they were based on a book just hadn't had the chance to do the research.

Thanks!

02-12-2010, 12:15 AM	#1
jaxx6166 Wizard Posts: 1,222 Karma: 769316 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Eternal summer Device: 350, iPad, PW	Western eBooks Anyone able to recommend any good ones? The only requirement is it must be digital I'm going away on Monday and am kind of craving the genre.. Last edited by jaxx6166; 02-12-2010 at 12:19 AM.

02-12-2010, 02:34 PM	#4
jaxx6166 Wizard Posts: 1,222 Karma: 769316 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Eternal summer Device: 350, iPad, PW	I found The Outlaw Kid in a secondhand store today. Picked it up for $2.00. Already on chapter 4. It's an interesting read so far, different in style from what I usually read. Then again, that is to be expected for a book that's 82 years old. There were shelves upon shelves of Max Brand and Louis L'Amour. I also found some of the book of the new sun and an original 1982 TPB of The Elfstones of Shannara. I was in heaven. The girlfriend, was not. She sat on a stack of books and played ipod touch games while I had a nerdgasm all over the store. =) Last edited by jaxx6166; 02-12-2010 at 02:37 PM.

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Moejoe Banned Posts: 5,100 Karma: 72193 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South of the Border Device: Coffin	Max Brand. One of the finest pulp writers and finest writers ever to put finger to typewriter key. Brand (Faust) only wrote his tales for the money and to keep up his lifestyle. He also wrote classical poetry that is now all but forgotten. The poetry was his true passion, the pulps paid his bills. But you'll never find a finer pulp writer. Manybooks and Gutenberg has plenty of his stuff. I'll send you my modified ePubs of his work and a short biography too, if you'd like.

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HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	MR user crutledge has posted a very large number of Westerns to our book upload forums. I'm sure you'll find lots to read there!

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wallcraft reader Posts: 6,975 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	I read many Louis L'Amour westerns when I was younger, and now most of them are available as ebooks. Three of my favorites are Flint, A Man Called Noon, and Reilly's Luck.

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SomeThingWickd First to go, last to know Posts: 10 Karma: 44 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: California, Leuven, St. Petersburg - Russia Device: Sony 505, iPhone w/Stanza, and NOW a 16GB Apple iPad WiFi	I just finished the Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch westerns by Robert B. Parker, who just recently passed away..... The movie Appaloosa is actually based on the first of the 4 books he wrote. (Blue Eyed Devil, the 4th book is due out sometime this year...) Brilliant Westerns by any account. I recommend them highly...

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