The Complete Idiots Guide to the Ultimate Reading List discussion

note: This topic has been closed to new comments.
209 views
Chapter 8: Westerns > Giddy-Up and Read - Chapter 8 book list

Comments Showing 1-4 of 4 (4 new)    post a comment »
dateUp arrow    newest »

message 1: by MJ, Idiot's Top libriarian (new)

MJ | 1332 comments Mod
Classics: old, but not old hat
More great reads: dusty trails to you


message 2: by MJ, Idiot's Top libriarian (last edited Jul 04, 2009 03:16PM) (new)

MJ | 1332 comments Mod
CLASSICS: OLD, BUT NOT OLD HAT

The Big Sky by Alfred Bertram Guthrie
Hondo by Louis L'Amour
Lonesome Dove by Larry McmUrry
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Tilburg Clark
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Somewhere They Die by L.P. Holmes
The Violent Land by Wayne D. Overholser
Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister



message 3: by MJ, Idiot's Top libriarian (last edited Jul 04, 2009 03:45PM) (new)

MJ | 1332 comments Mod
MORE GREAT READS: DUSTY TRAILS TO YOU

The Buffalo Soliders by John Prebble
Comanche Captives by Fred Grove
by Douglas C. Jones
Cripple Creek Bonanza by Chet Cunningham
The Day the Cowboys Quit by Elmer Kelton
Desrty Rides Again by Max Brand
From Where the Sun Now Stands by Will Henery
Gold in California by Todhunter Ballard
The Gunfighter's Apprentice by Jerry S. Drake
A Hanging in Sweetwater by Stephen Overholser
I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall
The Kincaids by Matt Braun
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
Mattie by Judy Alter
Moontrap by Don Berry
The Nameless Breed by Will C. Brown
Nickajack by Robert J. Conley
Panather in the Shyby James Alexander Thom
Prophet Annie by Ellen Recknot
The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout
St. Agnes Stand by Tom Eidson
Stone Song: A novel of the Life of Crazy Horse by Win Blevins
Summer of Pearls by Mike Blakely
Trail of the Spanish Bit by Don Coldsmith
The Trail of Ogallala by Benjamin Capps
True Grit by Charles Portis
The Undertaker's Wife by Loren D. Estleman
The Wolf Is My Brother by Chad Oliver



message 4: by MJ, Idiot's Top libriarian (new)

MJ | 1332 comments Mod
I was suprised by this list of books. The more great reads section is not your granddads western. They include the Native American, Womens and African American Experience


back to top
This topic has been frozen by the moderator. No new comments can be posted.