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 | "Writing The Southwest" [1995] Produced & edited by David King Dunaway Plume 8x5.3 pb [10/95] out of print/used 13-episode radio series on audio cassette order thru Univ NM Press project website |
 | "Western American Novelists: Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Dan Cushman, H.L. Davis, Vardis Fisher, A.B. Guthrie Jr., William Humphrey & Dorothy M. Johnson" [1995] Compiled by Martin Kich Routledge/Garland 8½x5¾ hardcover [10/95] for $95.00 |
'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore's
Edward Abbey [1927-89] Page
Andy Adams [1859-1935]
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"The Collected Western Novels of Andy Adams" [2009] for Kindle
Kindle Edition from Halcyon Classics [10/2009] for $0.99 "The Essential Andy Adams Westerns Collection" Kindle Edition from Amazon [undated] for $4.99 both Kindle Editions include 6 books, "with an active table of contents for easy navigation": "The Log of A Cowboy: A Narrative of The Old Trail Days" [1903 classic]; "A Texas Matchmaker" [1904]; "The Outlet" [1905]; "Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories" [14 short stories, 1906]; "Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography" [1907]; "The Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings" [1911]; NOT INCLUDED: "The Ranch On The Beaver" [1927] |
 | "The Ranch On The Beaver: A Sequel To The Wells Brothers" [1927] not available for Kindle {i.e., not public domain} Bison Books 8x5¼ pb [11/97] out of print/used |
Clifton Adams [1919-71]
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credits at IMDb
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Henry Wilson 'Heck' Allen [1912-91]
wrote cartoon gags as Heck Allen for Tex Avery at Warner Bros and M.G.M.; wrote Western novels
as Will Henry and Clay Fisher, many made into feature films; five-time winner of the Spur Award
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credits [1942-96] on IMDb
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writing as Clay Fisher: browse books
writing as Will Henry: browse books
 | "Yellowstone Kelly" [1957 novel] by Heck Allen/Will Henry
A fur trapper takes on a partner, then shelters a runaway Arapaho woman; the two youngsters fall in love, and then a Sioux chief arrives to reclaim the girl. Leisure mass pb [3/98] out of print/used color feature film [Warner Bros. 1959] Directed by Gordon Douglas; based on the 1957 novel by Heck Allen (as Clay Fisher); starring Clint Walker, Edd Byrnes, John Russell, Ray Danton & Andra Martin video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb |
 | "A Bullet For Billy the Kid" [2009] by Will Henry includes the 1966 title story, plus two novellas: "Santa Fe Passage" (1952 as Clay Fisher) & "The Fourth Horseman" (1954) Leisure Books mass pb [11/2009] for $6.99 |
Rudolfo Anaya Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore
Mary Hunter Austin [1868-1934]
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IMDb empty O.V.H. site
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W. Todhunter Ballard [1903-80]
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credits at IMDb
papers at WSU/NWDA
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wrote mystery & Western stories & novels & TV scripts under his own name and using pen names
Brian Agar, P.D. Ballard, Parker Bonner, Sam Bowie, Nick Carter, Brian Fox, John Hunter, Neil MacNeil,
Joe Millard, Clint Reno, Dorne Reno, John Shepherd, Jack Slade, Lindsay Stuart & Clay Turner
as Jack Slade, Ballard wrote thirty Zane Greys Lassiter novels, 1968-85
Texas Bix Bender
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W.R. Benton
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official website no Wikipedia entry
D.J. Bishop
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official website no Wikipedia entry
cowboy & poet & humorist Baxter Black of Benson, Arizona
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James Carlos Blake of Arizona
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Mike Blakely of Texas
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Win Blevins
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Stephen & Janet Bly of Idaho
Stephen's books Janet's books
official website
Johnny D. Boggs of Santa Fe, New Mexico
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official website
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Peter Bowen + Gabriel Du Pre mysteries
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B.M. Bower
Bertha Muzzy Sinclair [1871-1940] was the first woman to make a career of writing popular westerns.
Under the pseudonym B.M. Bower, she published more than sixty novels from 1904 to 1941
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credits on IMDb [1912-39]
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"Classic Westerns: 26 Books by B.M. Bower" for Kindle [2008]
Kindle Edition from B&R Samizdat Express [8/2008] for $0.99 "in a single file, with active table of contents"; includes "Cabin Fever" [1918], "Casey Ryan" [1921], "Chip of The Flying U" [1906], "Cow-Country" [1921], "Flying-U Ranch" [1914], "The Flying-U's Last Stand" [1915], "Good Indian" [1912], "The Gringos" [1913], "The Happy Family" [1910], "Her Prairie Knight" [1909], "The Heritage of The Sioux" [1916], "Jean of The Lazy-A" [1915], "Lonesome Land" [1912], "The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories" [1909], "The Long Shadow" [1909], "The Lookout Man" [1917], "The Lure of The Dim Trails" [1907], "The Phantom Herd" [1916], "The Quirt" [1920], "The Range Dwellers" [1907], "Rowdy of The Cross-L" [1907], "Sky Rider" [1918], "Starr of The Desert" [1917], "The Thunder Bird" [1919], "The Trail of The White Mule" [1922], and "The Uphill Climb" [1913] |
C.J. Box of Wyoming + game warden Joe Pickett mysteries
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'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore's
Max Brand [1892-1944] Pages
Peter Brandvold
books official website
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Matt Braun [b. 1932]
books official website
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Myron Brinig [1896-1991]
son of a Butte, Montana storekeeper; wrote 21 largely-forgotten novels, eight of which take place in pre-WWI Montana.
Myron Brinig Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
"Singermann" [1929] by Myron Brinig
Jewish storekeeper Moses Silvermann raises five sons in the copper-mining town of Silver Bow, Montana.
Arno Press facsimile hardcover [12/75] out of print/used
Farrar & Rinehart hardcover [1929] out of print/used
"Copper City" [Cobden-Sanderson, London 1931]
 | "Wide Open Town: A Novel" [Farrar & Rinehart 1931] by Myron Brinig, Illustrated by Earl Ganz A story of labor strife and love set in 1910 in fictional Silver Bow, representing Butte, Montana. A lover of fresh air works deep in the mines, his powerful uncle faces a crisis, and a girl from the 'dark side' of town in love with the miner tries to reform herself. Sweetgrass / Farcountry Press 9x6 pb [6/93] for $12.95 |
"This Man Is My Brother" [1932] sequel to "Singermann"
"The Sun Sets In The West" [Farrar & Rinehart 1935]
A story of labor strife in the mines of Silver Bow, Montana.
  | "The Sisters" [1937 bestseller] by Myron Brinig The three daughters of a druggist in Silver Bow, Montana: Louise elopes with a hard-drinking sports writer to San Francisco; he leaves her the night before the 1906 earthquake, she recovers in a brothel, then marries again and lives a gracious life. Grace remains in Montana, catches Louise's beau on the rebound, and tames him. Boy-crazy Helen marries an old copper tycoon and escapes to join the aristocracy of the East, where she is still a problem child in her fifties. Farrar & Rinehart 9x5 hardcover [1937] out of print/used Grosset & Dunlap hardcover [1937] out of print/used "The Sisters" feature film [Warner Bros. Oct 1938] Each of three sisters from Silver Bow, Montana marry men that they meet at the local inauguration ball for Theodore Roosevelt (1901); one sister elopes with a dashing rascal to San Francisco; the marriage breaks up, the city is destroyed by earthquake (1906), she recovers and returns to Montana; at the inauguration for Taft (1909), he reappears and asks for a second chance. Directed by Anatole Litvak; based on the bestselling novel by Myron Brinig; music by Max Steiner; starring Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise, Jane Bryan, Ian Hunter, Donald Crisp, Beulah Bondi, Alan Hale, Dick Foran & Henry Travers DVD/Blu-ray not available; MGM/UA Home Video b&w VHS [9/98] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
 | "The Gambler Takes A Wife" [Farrar & Rinehart 1943] Set in Montana in the 1880s. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover [1943] out of print/used |
A look at the relationships between a turn-of-the-century Jewish family and a wealthy Irish family in
a mining town (Silver Bow/Butte, Montana), focusing on Jimmy Joyce, who takes off for San Francisco.
Allen P. Bristow: browse books
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"Whispering Smith: His Life & Misadventures" [2007] by Allen P. Bristow Sunstone Press 9x6 pb [7/2007] for $16.47 publisher book page |
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"Playing God" [2005] by Allen P. Bristow VirtualBookworm 8x5 pb [7/2005] for $14.95 publisher bookpage |
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"The Pinkerton Eye" [2001] by Allen P. Bristow AuthorHouse 8¼x5 pb [8/2001] for $19.95 publisher bookpage & excerpt |
Dorris Alexander 'Dee' Brown [1908-2002]
browse books credits at IMDb
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"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" [1970]
paperback | hardcover | 2007 TV movie
"King of The Dime Novels" Ned Buntline [c. 1813-1886]
character credits at IMDb
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 | "The Hero of A Hundred Fights: Ned Buntline - Collected Stories From The Dime Novel King, From Buffalo Bill To Wild Bill Hickok" [2011] by Clay Reynolds Union Square Press hardcover [6/2011] for $18.96 see also 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Bookstore's 'Wild Bill' Hickok [1837-76] Page
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Margaret Coel + Wind River Arapaho mysteries
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Ralph Compton [1934-99]
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Sundown Riders series
Gunfighter series
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Will Cook [1921-64]
books & audio credits at IMDb
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Mesa Dean {Albuquerque author Melody Groves}: browse books
historian Bernard DeVoto [1897-1955]
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Bernard Devoto Papers at Stanford University
 | "The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto" [1974] by Wallace Stegner Univ NE Press 9x6 pb [3/2001] for $15.72 Doubleday hardcover [1974] out of print/many used "The Letters of Bernard DeVoto" [1975] Edited by Wallace Stegner Doubleday hardcover [1975] out of print/many used |
 | "The Western Paradox: A Conservation Reader" [2001] Edited by Douglas Brinkley & Patricia Nelson Limerick Yale Univ Press 7½x4¾ pb [9/2001] for $18.95 Yale Univ Press 8x6 hardcover [9/2001] for $65.00 |
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"Devoto's West: History, Conservation & The Public Good" [2005] by Bernard Devoto, edited by Edward K. Muller Swallow Press pb [4/2005] for $12.89 Swallow Press hardcover [4/2005] for $44.95 |
J. Frank Dobie [1888-1964]
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Ivan Doig [b. 1939]
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 | "Work Song: A Novel" [2010] by Ivan Doig Sequel to "The Whistling Season" [2006], ten years later (circa 1919). Morrie lands in copper town Butte, Montana and gets a job at the public library while hiding from Chicago gamblers, courting the alluring widow who runs the boarding house, and choosing sides in the local labor dispute. Riverhead Trade 7¾x5 pb [7/2011] for $10.20 
Riverhead 9¼x6½ hardcover [6/2010] for $17.21 |
James D. Doss of New Mexico
+ Ute Indian cop Charlie Moon mysteries
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Robert Olney Easton of Santa Barbara, CA
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 | "To Find A Place: Western Stories" [1999] by Robert Easton Five Star Trade 8½x5½ pb [10/2003] for $13.95 |
Edward S. Ellis [1840-1916]
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 | "Classic Westerns: 18 Novels by Edward Ellis" [2008] for Kindle
Kindle Edition from B&R Samizdat Express [8/2008] for $0.99 "in a single file, with active table of contents"; includes "Adrift In The Wilds, or The Adventures of Two Ship-wrecked Boys" [1887]; "Camp-Fire and Wigwam" [1885]; "The Cave In The Mountain: A Sequel to In The Pecos Country" [1894] (as Lt. R.H. Jayne); "Cowmen and Rustlers: A Story of The Wyoming Cattle Ranges" [1904]; "The Daughter of The Chieftain" [?]; "Deerfoot In The Mountains" [1905]; "Footprints In The Forest" [1886]; "The Huge Hunter, or The Steam Man of The Prairies" [1868]; "The Hunters of The Ozark" [1887]; "In The Pecos Country" [?] (as Lt. R.H. Jayne); "Klondike Nuggets, and How Two Boys Secured Them" [1898]; "The Land of Mystery" [1889]; "The Lost Trail" [1911]; "Oonomoo The Huron" [1911]; "The Phantom of The River" [1896]; "The Story of Red Feather: A Tale of The American Frontier" [1908]; "Through Forest and Fire" [1891]; and "Two Boys In Wyoming: A Tale of Adventure" [1898] |
'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore's
Loren D. Estleman Westerns Page
'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore's
Max Evans Page
writer & producer Andrew J. Fenady [b. 1928]
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credits on IMDb
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Vardis Fisher [1895-1968]
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"Mountain Man: A Novel of Male & Female In The Early American West" [1967] by Vardis Fisher Univ Idaho Press pb [12/2000] for $9.95 Amereon hardcover [10/80] for $30.95 "Jeremiah Johnson" feature film [Warner Bros. Dec 1972] |
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"Rediscovering Vardis Fisher: Centennial Essays" [2000] Edited by Joseph M. Flora Univ Idaho Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [12/2000] for $34.95 |
John Fox, Jr. [1862-1919]
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credits [1914-61] at IMDb
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John Fox, Jr. Museum [built 1888] in Big Stone Gap, VA
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"Classic Westerns: 11 Novels and Stories by John Fox, Jr." [2008] for Kindle
Kindle Edition from B&R Samizdat Express [8/2008] for $0.99 "in a single file, with active table of contents"; includes 7 novels & 3 anthologies: "A Cumberland Vendetta and Other Stories" [1895]; "A Knight of The Cumberland" [1906]; "A Mountain Europa" [1892]; "Christmas Eve On Lonesome and Other Stories" [1904]; "Crittenden: A Kentucky Story of Love & War" [1900]; "The Heart of The Hills" [1913]; "Hell Fer Sartain and Other Stories" [1897]; "In Happy Valley" [1917]; "The Last Stetson" [story]; "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come" [1903]; and "The Trail of The Lonesome Pine" [1908] |
New Mexico historian Nasario Garcia
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Hamlin Garland [1860-1940]
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credits [1917-25] at IMDb
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Hamlin Garland Society [est. 1999]
Hamlin Garland Houes [built 1893] in West Salem, Wisconsin
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"Classic Westerns: 13 Novels by Hamlin Garland" [2008] for Kindle
Kindle Edition from B&R Samizdat Express [9/2008] for $0.99 "in a single file, with active table of contents"; includes 11 novels & 2 anthologies: "A Daughter of The Middle Border" [1921]; "A Little Norsk" [1892]; "A Spoil of Office" [1892]; "Cavanagh, Forest Ranger" [1910]; "The Eagle's Heart" [1900]; "The Forester's Daughter" [1914]; "Main-Travelled Roads" [stories 1891]; "The Moccasin Ranch" [1909]; "Other Main-Traveled Roads" [stories 1910]; "Prairie Folks" [1893]; "The Spirit of Sweetwater" [1898]; "The Tyranny of The Dark" [1905]; and "Wayside Courtships" [1897] |
Fred Gipson [1908-73]
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Fred Gipson Papers & Bio at University of Texas, Austin
"Old Yeller" [1956 book, 1957 Disney movie]
videos/DVDs books
credits on IMDb
sequel "Savage Sam" [1963 movie]: credits on IMDb
Old Yeller Day [est. 1999] in October in Mason, Texas
'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore's
Zane Grey [1872-1939] Pages
Bio/Profile |
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Zane Grey's 'Lassiter' Books Page
James J. Griffin + The Texas Rangers series
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Fred Grove [1913-2008]
wrote over 30 Western novels, and many stories; won five Spur Awards
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Jesse Wilder novels of the Civil War
"Bitter Trumpet" [1989]
"Trail of Rogues" [1993]
"Man On A Red Horse" [1998]
"Into The Far Mountains" [1999]
"A Soldier Returns" [2006]
http://www.amazon.com/Savage-Land-Western-Fred-Grove/dp/1594148333/
http://www.amazon.com/Five-Star-First-Westerns-Vanishing/dp/1594141312/
http://www.amazon.com/Red-River-Stage-Western-Stories/dp/0786232633/ (2001)
Frank Gruber [1904-69]
wrote over 300 stories, 60+ novels & 200+ scripts in the Western & mystery genres
all books credits at IMDb
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Frank Gruber entry at Thrilling Detective website
Bill Gulick [b. 1916]
browse books credits at IMDb
papers at WSU/NWDA
Wikipedia {empty}
 | "Sixty-Four Years As A Writer" [2006] by Bill Gulick 'who survived them' Caxton Press 9x6 pb [3/2006] for $16.95 |
A.B. Guthrie, Jr. [1901-91]
browse books papers at Yale
credits [1952-67] at IMDb
Wikipedia
"The Big Sky" movie [1952]
"Shane" [screenplay 1953]
"The Kentuckian" [screenplay 1955]
"These Thousand Hills" movie [1959]
"The Way West" movie [1967]
Micah S. Hackler + Sheriff Lansing mysteries: browse books
J.J. Haefner
browse J.J. Haefner books browse Joseph Haefner books
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Jean Hager + Cherokee cops mysteries
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Mel Hague of Yorkshire, U.K.
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official website
Jamie Harrison of Montana
+ Sheriff Jules Clement mysteries
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Ernest Haycox [1899-1950]
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O. Henry [1862-1910] Pages
at Spirit of America Bookstore
'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore's
Cisco Kid & Pancho Page
'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore's
Tony Hillerman [1925-2008] Page
Steve Hockensmith + Holmes On The Range series
Cowboy 'Big Red' Amlingmeyer has been reading Sherlock Holmes tales to his brother 'Old Red' around the
campfire and the two detective-wannabes eagerly dive into unsolved killings using the methods of their British hero;
light-heartedly combines the features of Sherlock Holmes and dime westerns, with much humor - Western style.
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"Holmes On The Range" [2006]
Working for the winter at the mysterious Bar-VR ranch, the Amlingmeyer brothers find a fellow cowhand shot in the head and another dead by trampling – but nobody can remember a recent stampede. Minotaur Books 8x5½ pb [2/2007] for $11.16 St. Martin's Minotaur 9¼x6½ hardcover [2/2006] for $18.36 Tantor Media UNABR audio CD [3/2006] for $26.59 |
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"On The Wrong Track: A Holmes On The Range Mystery" [2007]
Tired of the cowboy life, the Amlingmeyer brothers take a job as guards for the Pacific Express, and soon are contending with a gang of outlaws, a seductive sufragette, a shady Chinaman, a drunken railroad detective, the King of The Hoboes – and the severed head of the baggage man. Minotaur Books 8¼x5½ pb [1/2008] for $11.01 St. Martin's Minotaur 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2007] for $23.95 Tantor Media UNABR audio CD [3/2007] for $26.59 |
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"The Black Dove: A Holmes On The Range Mystery" [2008]
Adrift in 1893 San Francisco, the Amlingmeyer brothers learn of the murder of a railroad man and follow the trail into mysterious and dangerous Chinatown. Minotaur Books 8¼x5½ pb [5/2009] for $11.21 St. Martin's Minotaur 9¼x6 hardcover [2/2008] for $18.68 Tantor Media UNABR audio CD [2/2008] for $25.54 |
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"The Crack In The Lens: A Holmes On The Range Mystery" [2009]
Pockets full of money, the Amlingmeyer brothers hardly know what to do with themselves; Old Red talks his brother into returning to Texas to investigate a five-year-old murder – that of Old Red's sweetie, the hooker Gertrude. St. Martin's Minotaur 9¼x6 hardcover [7/2009] for $16.49 Tantor Media UNABR audio CD [7/2009] for $23.09 |
historian Stanley Hoig [1914-2009] of Oklahoma
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Emerson Hough [1857-1923]
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credits [1915-38] at IMDb
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 | "Classic Westerns: 13 Books by Emerson Hough" [2008] for Kindle
Kindle Edition from B&R Samizdat Express [8/2008] for $0.99 "in a single file, with active table of contents"; includes "The Covered Wagon" [1922] made into hit silent movie in 1923; "54-40 or Fight" [1909]; "The Girl At The Halfway House: A Story of The Plains" [1900]; "Heart's Desire" [1903]; "The Law of The Land" [1904]; "Maw's Vacation: The Story of A Human Being In The Yellowstone" [1921]; "The Mississippi Bubble" [1902]; "The Purchase Price, or The Cause of Compromise" [1910]; "The Sagebrusher: A Story of The West" [1919]; "The Story of The Outlaw: A Study of The Western Desperado" [1907]; "The Way of A Man" [1907]; "The Young Alaskans" [1908]; and "The Young Alaskans On The Missouri" [1922] |
Lance Howard {Howard Hopkins}
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cowboy author-artist Will James [1892-1942]
books
credits [1933-85] at IMDb
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mystery author J.A. Jance
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Sheriff Joanna Brady of Bisbee, Arizona mysteries
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Ali Reynolds of Sedona, Arizona mysteries
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Richard D. Jensen
books
law office homepage
official website {dead? 2010}
 | "The Amazing Tom Mix: The Most Famous Cowboy of The Movies" [2005] by Richard D. Jensen iUniverse 8¾x5¾ pb [6/2005] for $21.95 author's official website {dead? 2010} 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore's Tom Mix [1880-1940] Page |
Craig Johnson of Wyoming + Sheriff Walt Longmire mysteries
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author's website
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Dorothy M. Johnston: books credits on IMDb
Terry C. Johnston [1947-2001]: books official website
William W. Johnstone [1938-2004]
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Kirby Jonas: books official website
Elmer Kelton: books official website
Bob Kinford of Van Horn, TX
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books {as Robert}
official website
Gen. Charles King []
http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Westerns-Charles-contents-ebook/dp/B001ECQN2M/
William Kittredge: fiction & non-fiction
Peter B. Kyne [1880-1957]
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Broadway credits
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"Valley of The Giants" [1919 silent] /tt0010835/
Once considered a lost film; Russian film archive Gosfilmofond digitally restored its prints and presented a copy to
U.S. Library of Congress in October 2010. Directed by James Cruze; based on the novel by Peter B. Kyne;
starring Wallace Reid, Grace Darmond, William Brunton, Charles Ogle, Ralph Lewis & Alice Terry
'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore's
Louis L'Amour [1908-1988] Page
Brian Andrew Laird
+ Tucson, AZ journalist Nate Bowman mysteries:
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Joe R. Lansdale
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"Texas Night Riders" short novel [1985] by Joe R. Lansdale, writing as Ray Slater
Leisure Books mass pb [3/85] out of print/used
Subterranean Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [2/97] out of print/scarce
 | "The Magic Wagon" [1988] Set in turn-of-the-20th-century eastern Texas; after young Buster Fogg's family is wiped out by a tornado, he joins a traveling medicine show comprised of Billy Bob Daniels (who claims to be the illegitimate son of 'Wild Bill' Hickok), a kindly ex-slave, and a wrestling ape. Subterranean Press 8½x5¾ pb [5/2001] out of print/used Bantam mass pb [6/88] out of print/used |
 | "Blood Dance (Lost Landale Series)" [written in 1980s, first publd 2000] Two cowboys are corced into joining a train robbery; one is killed, the second is left for dead. The badly-wounded Melgrhue is nursed back to health by mountain man 'Liver-Eating' Johnston, then hunts down the gang members to revenge his pal's murder. After a ritual Sun Dance, Melgrhue saves the life of 'Wild Bill' Hickok and pursues the gang leader to the latter's death at Little Big Horn. Subterranean Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/2000] out of print/used |
Western historian David Lavender: books
Elmore Leonard
Westerns
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"The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard" [2004] Wm. Morrow hardcover [10/2004] for $19.01 Harper UNABR audio CD [10/2004] for $20.37 |
Preston Lewis: browse books
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"The Demise of Billy the Kid: The Memoirs of H. H. Lomax" [1994] by Preston Lewis A fictional account of the Lincoln County War, from the viewpoint of H.H. Lomax, who is either an eye-witness or a really good liar (or both). Random House/Domain mass pb [10/94] out of print/used |
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"The Redemption of Jesse James: The Memoirs of H. H. Lomax" [1995] by Preston Lewis A fictional account of the life & crimes of outlaw Jesse James, from the viewpoint of H.H. Lomax, who is either an eye-witness or a really good liar (or both). Random House/Domain mass pb [8/95] out of print/used |
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"Mix-Up At The O.K. Corral: The Memoirs of H. H. Lomax" [1996] by Preston Lewis A fictional account of the Gunfight at The O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, from the viewpoint of H.H. Lomax, who is either an eye-witness or a really good liar (or both). Random House/Domain mass pb [3/96] out of print/used |
Milton Lott [1916-96]: browse books
Charles F. Lummis [1859-1928] Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore
Giles A. Lutz [1910-82]
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{Allan} William Colt MacDonald [1891-1968]
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credits [1932-45] at IMDb
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"The Three Mesquiteers" novels & stories and movies [1936-43]
search on keywords 'three mesquiteers' at IMDb Wikipedia
"Pals of The Saddle" [1938] co-starring John Wayne
"Overland Stage Raiders" [1938] co-starring John Wayne
"Santa Fe Stampede" [1938] co-starring John Wayne
"Red River Range" [1938] co-starring John Wayne
"The Night Riders" [1939] co-starring John Wayne
"Three Texas Steers" [1939] co-starring John Wayne
"Wyoming Outlaw" [1939] co-starring John Wayne
"New Frontier" [1939] co-starring John Wayne
Karl Friedrich May [Germany 1842-1912]
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credits [since 1920] at IMDb
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'Winnetou' entry at Wikipedia
'Old Shatterhand' entry at Wikipedia
public domain texts at Project Gutenberg
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