Mat,
Re your question below:
> Are there any Westerns people would
consider
> hardboiled?
Loren Estleman writes an excellent series of westerns about
Page Murdock, a US marshal working out of the court of a
fictional federal judge clearly modeled on Isaac Parker, the
best of which is probably THE STRANGLERS. His stand-alone
westerns, the most recent of which is THE MASTER EXECUTIONER,
are also great. And every bit as HB as his crime
fiction.
Robert Randisi originated one of those long-running western
PB series, THE GUNSMITH, as "J.R. Roberts." The series now
numbers in the hundreds and I'm not sure whether he writes
them all, or whether they're
"farmed out" like the Nick Carter spy novels or the
post-Pendleton "Executioner" novels.
Matt Braun wrote a series of very tough western novels about
a particularly lethal "range detective" named Lucas Starbuck.
He also wrote two excellent novels fictionalizing events from
the life of the man who was perhaps the greatest of all Old
West peace officers, Bill Tilghman. The first book, OUTLAW
KINGDOM, is about a young Tilghman on the trail of the last
surviving member of the Dalton gang, Bill Doolin, in 1890s
Oklahoma. ONE LAST TOWN is set in the 1920s and tells how the
aged lawman came out of retirement to drive Prohibition-era
gangsters out of the oil boom town of Cromwell in a manner
reminiscent of RED HARVEST. It was filmed for TNT under the
title YOU KNOW MY NAME with Sam Elliot perfectly cast as
Tilghman.
Oh, and that Hand Held Crime story, "Red-Handed," by this
Scott Morrison guy who's said to lurk here at Rara-Avis is
(or at least, so I've been told) supposed to be a
western/mystery that's both tough and colloquial.
JIM DOHERTY
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