Recs not quite touched on so far:

Bill Crider
James Reasoner
Clark Howard
Livia Washburn (and these are all Texans)

Dorothy M. Johnson
Jorge Luis Borges (for his gaucho stories)
B. Traven
Jack London (whose "northerns" are rather more readable than his contemporary Owen Wister's work)

Leigh Brackett
Carol Emshwiller (whose LEDOYT and LEAPING MAN HILL are very unusual westerns)
R. A. Lafferty (likewise, with OKLA HANNALI and a number of his short stories)
Chad Oliver

Will Henry/Clay Fisher
Conrad Richter
Elmore Leonard
William Van Tilburg Clark (THE TRACK OF THE CAT even more than THE OX-BOW INCIDENT, though it and his short stories are damned good, too)

Cliff Farrell
H. A. DeRosso
Steve Frazee
T.V. Olsen (the first writer of adult western fiction I read, even before London)

Todd Mason (who knows there are more paniolo, or Hawaiian cowboy, stories than I've found so far in my casual search, and might just have to write some)


On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Jeanne Linn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I love this thread. I am new to a jail library on Maui. As in Colorado and Oregon, westerns are popular to a large male population that we serve. I have been taking notes on suggestions to add to my collection.
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>I love Larry McMurtry's Buffalo Girls and would suggest to anyone wanting historical western fiction. It always makes me go researching to see how much of it is true. And of course the main characters are women.
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>Jeanne Linn, Librarian III
>MCCC
>Wailuku,HI
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