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Title The Western : four classic novels of the 1940s & 50s / Ron Hansen, editor
Imprint New York, NY : Library of America, [2020]
©2020

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Descript xvi, 1094 pages 21 cm
Series Library of America ; 331
Library of America ; 331
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 1083-1094)
"In the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Ox-Bow Incident, Walter van Tilburg Clark explores the thin line between civilization and barbarism through the story of a lynch mob that targets three innocent men, exposing a dark authoritarian impulse at work the American frontier. Set in Wyoming in 1889, a time when ranchers and cattle companies waged war with each other, Jack Schaefer's iconic Shane deploys many of the genre's most essential elements, brilliantly filtered through a boy's perceptions. Alan Le May's The Searchers, the basis for John Ford's cinematic masterpiece starring John Wayne, follows the dogged quest of two men to rescue a young girl taken prisoner by Comanche warriors. And Oakley Hall's Warlock, a novel that anticipates the later books of Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry, casts the battle for control of a southwestern outpost as a bloody saga pitting a marauding gang of cowboys and rustlers against the town's defenders, led by the legendary gunslinger Clay Blaisedell. All four novels were memorably adapted for the screen, and their gripping stories--told with brisk narrative energy, psychological depth, and laconic humor--have contributed unforgettably to the Western's enduring legacy in American culture" --Amazon
Subject Rancher
Vilda västern
Cowboys
Boskapsskötare
Mänskliga relationer
Blodshämnd
Nybyggarliv
Nybyggare
Cowboys -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction
Cattle drives -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction
Ranch life -- Fiction
Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction
Conduct of life -- Fiction
Vendetta -- Fiction
Vendetta.
Ranch life.
Man-woman relationships.
Cowboys.
Cattle drives.
Conduct of life.
Frontier and pioneer life.
West United States.
Romaner
Historiska skildringar
Äventyrsskildringar
Western fiction.
Fiction.
Western fiction.
Classmark 813/.087408
Alt Auth Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, 1909-1971. Oxbow incident
Schaefer, Jack, 1907-1991. Shane
Le May, Alan, 1899-1964. Searchers
Hall, Oakley M. Warlock
Hansen, Ron, 1947-
Add Title Western : four classic novels of the 1940s and 50s
Western : four classic novels of the forties and fifties
ISBN/ISSN 9781598536614
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