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Western  Fiction

"The truth that will prevail lives in novels more than history books."
— Western historian Terry Beers

Western novels          anthologies & short fiction          Western romances


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Books on the West [non-fiction]

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Novels  of  the  West

The Missouri Riders   "The Missouri Riders" [2007]
by George Banks

Outskirts Press 8½x5½ pb [7/2007] for $15.56
Luke & Jenny Visit Tombstone   "Gunfight At The O.K. Corral: Luke & Jenny Visit Tombstone"
[ages 8-12; 2006] by Gayle Martin

Five Star 9x6 pb [9/2006] for $10.17
official booksite
Nickel-Plated Dream   "Nickel-Plated Dream" [2006] by Stephen Lodge
The rowdy escapades of The Kid and his faithful Indian companion among B-movie film companies in 1950s Texas, Arizona & Hollywood.
Behler Publns 8½x5½ pb [5/2006] for $10.17
author's website
Tehano: A Novel   "Tehano: An Epic Novel" [2006]
by Allen Wier

Southern Methodist Univ Press hardcover [3/2006] for $17.33
publisher bookpage
Toby Ryker   "Toby Ryker" [2005]
by Steven Merrill Ulmen

Lulu Press 9x6 pb [12/2005] for $15.96
publisher bookpage
Saragosa   "Saragosa" [2005]
by Bill Wilbur

PublishAmerica 8½x5½ pb [11/2005] for $19.95
official website
Heart of A Legend   "The Heart of A Legend" [2005]
by Amy Lignor

The real-life tale of Fort Sumner, New Mexico pioneer Paulita Maxwell, 'the love of Billy the Kid'.
Helm large print pb [9/2005] for $16.95
Playing God   "Playing God" [2005]
by Allen P. Bristow

VirtualBookworm 8x5 pb [7/2005] for $14.95
publisher bookpage
Appaloosa   "Appaloosa: A Novel" [2005] by Robert B. Parker
"A stunning Western ... one of Parker's finest." — Publishers Weekly
Putnam 9¼x6½ hardcover [6/2005] for $16.47
Random House UNABR audio CD [6/2005] for $18.15
Random House UNABR audio [6/2005] for $16.50
Hombrecito's War   "Hombrecito's War" [2005]
by W. Michael Farmer

Llumina Press 9x6 pb [5/2005] for $21.95
Llumina Press 9x6 hardcover [5/2005] for $44.95
author's website
Death of Desert Belle   "The Death of Desert Belle" [2004]
by Phil Dunlap

A G-rated murder mystery in the Old West.
Avalon hardcover [10/2004] for $15.37
publisher bookpage
Strawberry Mountain War   "The Strawberry Mountain War" [2004]
by Dave P. Fisher

PublishAmerica pb [8/2004] for $21.94
publisher bookpage
author's website
Charlie Sunday's Texas Outfit   "Charley Sunday's Texas Outfit!" [2004]
by Stephen Lodge

Charley takes his grandson along on a modern, thousand-mile cattle drive.
Behler Publns 8½x5¾ pb [5/2004] for $10.85
publisher bookpage

Massacre at Bend-In-The-River   "Massacre At Bend-In-The-River" [2004]
by Michael J. Kahmann

Virtual Bookworm 8½x5½ pb [1/2004] for $12.95
Gunman's Rhapsody   "Gunman's Rhapsody: A Novel" [2001] by Robert B. Parker
Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, the O.K. Corral, this is most certainly a Western tale; but it is also a deeply-affecting love story.
Berkley pb [3/2002] for $7.99
Putnam 9x6 hardcover [6/2001] out of print/many used
New Millennium UNABR audio CD [1/2003] for $34.95
New Millennium UNABR audio [1/2003] for $17.00
Echoes of a Silent River   "Echoes of A Silent River: A Fictional Poetry-Prose Narrative of The True Largest Massacre of Native Americans In The History of The United States" [2003]
by Rebekah Fawn Cochran

A fictional look at the 1863 Bear River Massacre.
BookLocker 8¾x5½ pb [9/2003] for $14.95
publisher bookpage {also ebook}
Caprock   "Caprock" [2003] by S.J. Beres
U.S. Marshall Joshua Block trails a herd of stolen cattle and the secret of Coronado's gold, in the Llano Estacado {Staked Plains} of West Texas.
ImprintBooks pb [5/2003] for $27.98
pb [2003] for $13.99 from Booksurge
author website
Silver Creek   "Silver Creek" [2003] by A.H. Holt
Range war and romance in Central Arizona.
Avalon Books hardcover [6/2003] for $13.97
author website
Pinkerton Eye   "The Pinkerton Eye" [2001]
by Allen P. Bristow

AuthorHouse 8¼x5 pb [8/2001] for $19.95
publisher bookpage & excerpt
Walking West   "Walking West" [2000]
by James Andrews Kiehle

Xlibris 8½x5½ pb [6/2000] for $21.99
Messenger 12   "Messenger Twelve" [2000]
by James Lynn Bartz

Slave ships and Wells Fargo intrigue in Gold Rush-era San Francisco.
Westbound Stage hardcover [4/2000] out of print/used
Coover's Ghost Town   "Ghost Town" [1998] by Robert Coover
A nightmasrish and surreal lampoon set smack dab in the middle of the Western genre.
Grove Press 8x5¼ pb [3/2000] for $10.20
Henry Holt 8¾x5¾ hardcover [9/98] out of print/many used




Western  Fiction
Anthologies

Stories of The Golden West Book 1  
Stories of The Golden West Book 4  
Stories of The Golden West Book 5  
"Stories of The Golden West: A Western Trio" series [2000-2006]
Edited by Jon Tuska

Book One [2000]: includes novellas "Riders of The Storm" by Robert J. Horton, "The Texas Hellion" by Walt Coburn & "The Cayuse" by Cherry Wilson
Five Star 8½x5¾ hardcover [3/2000] for $21.95
Book Two [2001]: includes 3 novellas
Five Star 8¾x5¾ hardcover [5/2001] for $22.95
Book Three [2002]: includes novellas "Tappan’s Burro" by Zane Grey, "Jargan" by Max Brand & "The Trail To Crazy Man" by Louis L'Amour
Five Star 9x6 hardcover [5/2002] out of print/used
Thorndike Largeprint 8¾x6 hardcover [6/2002] out of print/used
Book Four [2003]: includes novellas "Rocky Rhodes of Roaring Camp" by W.C. Tuttle, "Riders of The Crimson Trail" by Jack Natteford & "Outlaw Guns" by Cliff Farrell
Five Star 8½x6½ hardcover [2/2003] out of print/used
Ulverscroft Large Print 9½x6 hardcover [11/2005] for $27.99
Book Five [2004]: includes "Showdown On The Hogback" by Louis L'Amour, "Cañon Walls" by Zane Grey & "Black Sheep" by Max Brand
Five Star 8½x6 hardcover [5/2004] for $25.95
Book Six [2005]: includes novellas "Thirsty Acres" by L.P. Holmes, "Hell for Sale" by Tom W. Blackburn & "Proud Rider," a two-part serial by Harvey Fergusson
Five Star hardcover [4/2005] for $25.95
Book Seven [2006]: includes novellas "Riders of The Dawn" by Louis L'Amour, "From Missouri" by Zane Grey & "Over The Northern Border" by Max Brand
Five Star 8½x6 hardcover [5/2006] for $17.13

Bull by the Tale   "Bull By The Tale" [stories 2006]
by John Duncklee

UNM Press 7¾x5½ pb [10/2006] for $17.95
End of The Trail stories   "The End of The Trail: Western Stories" [2005]
by Robert E. Howard [1906-36], edited by Rusty Burke

Univ NE Press 8x5½ pb [4/2005] for $12.21
Univ NE Press 8x5½ hardcover [4/2005] for $23.10
Riot At Bucksnort stories   "The Riot At Bucksnort and Other Western Tales" [2005]
by Robert E. Howard [1906-36], edited by David Gentzel

Univ NE Press 8x5½ pb [4/2005] for $10.17
Univ NE Press 8¼x5¾ hardcover [4/2005] for $23.10
Classic Cowboy Stories   "Classic Cowboy Stories: 18 Extraordinary Tales of The Old West"
[2004] Edited by Michael McCoy

Zane Grey, O. Henry, Emerson Hough, Nat Love, Clarence Mulford, Bill Nye, Walter MacLeod Raine, Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, Charlie Siringo, Mark Twain & Owen Wister
Lyons Press mass pb [6/2004] for $9.95
M.J.F. Books hardcover [6/2004] out of print/used
Golden West stories  
"The Golden West: Stories From Louis L'Amour, Zane Grey & Max Brand" [2003]
Edited by Jon Tuska

Leisure pb [4/2003] for $5.99
20 New Western Stories   "American West: Twenty New Stories From The Western Writers of America" [2002]
Edited by Loren D. Estleman

St Martin9¼x6 hardcover [1/2002] for $11.17
Tales of The American West   "Tales of The American West: The Best of Spur Award-Winning Authors" [2000]
Edited by Richard S. Wheeler

Signet pb [6/2001] for $5.99
NAL 7½x5½ hardcover [9/2000] for $14.00
Still Wild Western fiction   "Still Wild: Short Fiction of The American West, 1950 to Present" [2000]
Edited by Larry McMurtry

S&S 8x5¼ pb [6/2001] for $11.20
S&S 8¾x5¾ hardcover [7/2000] out of print/used
Tin Star stories   "Tin Star" [stories; 2000]
Edited by Robert J. Randisi

Berkley mass pb [4/2000] out of print/used
American West Greatest Tales   "The American West: The Greatest Tales From The Masters of Western Fiction" [20 stories; 1999]
Edited by Jon Tuska

Bristol Park Books 8¼x5½ pb [10/99] out of print/used
Portable Western Reader   "The Portable Western Reader" [1997]
Edited by William Kittredge

Penguin 7¾x5 pb [7/97] for $11.96
Morrow Anthology Western Short Stories   "The Morrow Anthology of Great Western Short Stories" [1997]
Edited by Jon Tuska & Vicki Piekarski

Wm. Morrow 9½x6½ hardcover [3/97] out of stock/used
Western American Novelists Vol 1   "Western American Novelists Vol. 1: 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 $75.00
Western Chronological Treasury   "The Western Story: A Chronological Treasury" [20 stories; 1995]
Edited by Jon Tuska

Univ NE Press 8¾x5¾ pb [11/99] for $15.00
Univ NE Press 9½x6½ hardcover [9/95] out of print/used
Mysterious West   "The Mysterious West" [20 original stories 1994]
Edited by Tony Hillerman

Harper pb [11/95] for $6.99
HarperCollins hardcover [12/94] out of stock/used
New Trails   "New Trails: Twenty-Three Original Stories of The West From Western Writers of America" [1994]
Edited by John Jakes & Martin H. Greenberg

stories by John Jakes, Elmore Leonard, Gordon Shirreffs, Elmer Kelton, Loren D. Estleman, John D. Nesbitt & others
Domain pb [12/95] out of print/used
Doubleday hardcover [10/94] out of print/used
Great Stories of The American West   "Great Stories of The American West" [1994 & 1996]
Edited by Martin H. Greenberg

Volume 1: 19 stories by Loren D. Estleman, Louis L'Amour, John D. MacDonald, Bill Pronzini, John Jakes, Bret Harte, Owen Wister, Mark Twain, Marcia Muller & others
Jove pb [3/96] out of print/many used
Dutton 9½x6¼ hardcover [12/94] out of print/many used
Volume 2: 14 stories by Dorothy M. Johnson, Elmore Leonard & others, and a novella by Ed Gorman
Berkeley pb [8/97] out of print/many used
Penguin 9½x6½ hardcover [2/96] out of print/used

Best of the American West   "The Best of The American West" [1988]
Edited by Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg

Volume 1: stories by Louis L'Amour, Loren D. Estleman, Richard Matheson, Luke Short & others
Berkeley pb [9/98] out of print/used
Volume 2: The Stories That Inspired Classic Western Films
NAL pb [5/90] out of print/used
NAL pb [8/88] out of print/used
Best of the West audio   "Best of The West: Classic Stories From The American Frontier" [2003]
Vol 1: New Millenium UNABR audio [8/2003] 4 tapes for $25.00
Vol 2: New Millenium UNABR audio [8/2003] 4 tapes for $17.00
Vol 3: New Millenium UNABR audio [8/2003] for $25.00

"Gunsight": An Existential Western Novel by G.E. Nordell   pending

"Zane Grey's Western Magazine" index

Western Fiction Review [online + free ezine]




Western  Romance  Novels

Shenandoah   "The Man From Shenandoah" [2003]
by Marsha Ward

Writers Club Press 9x6 pb [1/2003] for $14.95
author website

The McQuaid Brothers trilogy: book 1book 2book 3

Janet Dailey: browse all books
Julie Garwood: browse all books
Leigh Greenwood: browse all books
Joan Johnston: browse all books

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Petticoats & Pistols Western romance authors co-op website [est. 2007]


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