Descript |
xvi, 1094 pages 21 cm |
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Library of America ; 331
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Library of America ; 331
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 1083-1094) |
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"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 |
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Rancher
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Vilda västern
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Cowboys
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Boskapsskötare
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Mänskliga relationer
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Blodshämnd
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Nybyggarliv
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Nybyggare
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Cowboys -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction
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Cattle drives -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction
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Ranch life -- Fiction
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction
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Conduct of life -- Fiction
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Vendetta -- Fiction
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Vendetta.
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Ranch life.
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Man-woman relationships.
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Cowboys.
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Cattle drives.
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Conduct of life.
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Frontier and pioneer life.
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West United States.
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Romaner
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Historiska skildringar
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Äventyrsskildringar
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Western fiction.
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Fiction.
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Western fiction.
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Classmark |
813/.087408
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Alt Auth |
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, 1909-1971.
Oxbow incident
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Schaefer, Jack, 1907-1991.
Shane
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Le May, Alan, 1899-1964.
Searchers
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Hall, Oakley M.
Warlock
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Hansen, Ron, 1947-
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Add Title |
Western : four classic novels of the 1940s and 50s |
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Western : four classic novels of the forties and fifties |
ISBN/ISSN |
9781598536614 |
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