--- David Bell <
belldj@muohio.edu> wrote:
>
> Along the same lines, are there any authors
who
> write hard-boiled westerns? I
> know Leonard has written them, and Charles
Willeford
> wrote one. Anyone else?
I've just started reading Westerns, but I've already noticed
that they exist on a sort of spectrum. At one end they edge
into historical fiction; at the other they edge into the
hardboiled.
I've only read a handful of Westerns, but some of them are
certainly hardboiled. Loren Estleman has written a number of
very good, very tough books on the old West; I recommend his
BLOODY SEASON. Some guy named Shepard Rifkin (anyone ever
heard of him?)wrote an excellent, brutal Western called KING
FISHER'S ROAD. Another guy named John Benteen (anyone ever
heard of him? I think this is a pseudonym) wrote a couple of
tough adventure series set in the Old West: I especially
recommend the Fargo series, which is typically set in unusual
times
(around the turn of the century) and in unusual places
(the Phillipenes, Guatamala).
I read somewhere that Lion Books used to publish a lot of
tough, hb Westerns. One of these days I hope to find their
title EAT DOG OR DIE.
You can find Westerns nowadays very easily in thrift stores,
old paperback places, etc. It's a very neglected genre, which
is kind of sad.
doug
===== Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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