A Century of Great Western Stories by John Jakes
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Overview: John Jakes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical novels as North and South and The Kent Family Chronicles has long been both a fan and a distinguished author of novels and stories of the American West. Now, with the turning of the millennium, he has compiled in one volume a century’s worth of his favorite Western fiction.
To illustrate the evolution of the genre, Jakes has included such legendary authors as Owen Wister, Louis L’Amour, and Zane Grey along side their more contemporary peers such as Loren Estleman and Elmer Kelton. While the stories have changed over the years, certain timeless themes of Western fiction remain constant. At the heart of the stories are ideas that have become synonymous with the American dream—-the frontier spirit, individual freedoms, and man’s relationship with the land.
A Century of Great Western Stories is essentially a retrospective of western writing over the past century, but Jakes also sets out to give readers a glimpse of what the future might hold for western fiction. While trends in publishing might not always be promising, the current crop of contemporary Western authors show that the old west will always have a place in the world of fiction. Like the American dream which it celebrates, Western fiction will perservere.
Genre: Fiction | General Fiction/Classics
The Gift of Cochise by Louis L’Amour
The Tin Star by John M. Cunningham
Killers’ Country! by Dan Cushman
Timberline by Owen Wister
All Gold Canyon by Jack London
The Lamb of the Flying U by B. M. Bower
Gun Job by Thomas Thompson
The Burial of Letty Strayhorn by Elmer Kelton
Hell on the Draw by Loren D. Estleman
The Attack on the Mountain by Glendon Swarthout
Fear by Bill Pronzini
Geranium House by Peggy Simson Curry
The Trouble Man by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
The Weight of Obligation by Rex Beach
Top Hand by Luke Short
Sergeant Houck by Jack Schaefer
Manitow and Ironhand by John Jakes
The Killing at Triple Tree by Evan Hunter
Sweet Cactus Wine by Marcia Muller
Peace Officer by Brian Garfield
Wolf Moon by Ed Gorman
Gamblin’ Man by Dwight V. Swain
Candles in the Bottom of the Pool by Max Evans
Stage to Lordsburg by Ernest Haycox
King of the Buckskin Breed by Les Savage, Jr.
Burn Him Out by Frank Bonham
The Shaming of Broken Horn by Bill Gulick
The Guns of William Longley by Donald Hamilton
Wine on the Desert by Max Brand
Tappan’s Burro by Zane Grey
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