The Shootist
By: Glendon Swarthout , None
4.14
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
By the author of The Homesman, now a major motion picture The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a gun…
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1. The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
By: Owen Wister , Gary Scharnhorst
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the untamed West, pioneers came to test their fortunes -- and their wills. The Wyoming territory… read more
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"Stand on your laigs you polecat, and admit you're a liar!"-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
"For out of the eyes of every stranger looks either a friend or an enemy, waiting to be known."-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
"Dr. MacBride had a manner of saying "pardon me," which rendered forgiveness well-nigh impossible."-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
"Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader..."-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
2. Hondo
By: Louis L'Amour
4.06
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the A… read more
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"The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say."-Louis L'Amour, Hondo
3. The Revenant
By: Michael Punke
3.96
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
Hugh Glass isn’t afraid to die. He’s done it once already. Rocky Mountains, 1823. The trappers o… read more
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"Le géant poussa un dernier soupir et mourut à la clarté des étoiles de la plaine."-Michael Punke, The Revenant
"Il pouvait monter là-haut s'il le voulait. Monter et toucher l'horizon, sauter par-dessus et découvrir l'horizon suivant"-Michael Punke, The Revenant
"T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers."-Michael Punke, The Revenant
"The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens."-Michael Punke, The Revenant
4. Shane
By: Jack Schaefer , Wendell Minor
3.94
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
A stranger rode out of the heart of the great glowing West, into the small Wyoming valley in the su… read more
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"What a man knows isn't important. Its what he is that counts."-Jack Schaefer, Shane
"A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel - or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good - and as bad - as the man who …"-Jack Schaefer, Shane
"With us he spoke freely enough. We were, in some subtle way, his folks. Though we had taken him in, you had the feeling that he had adopted us. But with others he was reserved; courteous and soft-spo…"-Jack Schaefer, Shane
"I would think of him most vividly in that single flashing instant when he whirled to shoot Fletcher on the balcony at Grafton’s saloon. I would see again the power and grace of coordinate force beaut…"-Jack Schaefer, Shane
5. The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)
By: A.B. Guthrie Jr.
4.01
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
A classic portrait of America's vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction. Origin… read more
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"He had lived a man's life, and now it was at an end, and what had he to show for it? Two horses and a few fixin's and a letter of credit for three hundred and forty-three dollars. That was all, unles…"-A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)
6. The Searchers
By: Alan LeMay
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
On the Texas frontier, a Comanche war party attacks the Edwards ranch and kills all the inhabitants… read more
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7. Wraiths of the Broken Land
By: S. Craig Zahler
4.08
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
A brutal and unflinching tale that takes many of its cues from both cinema and pulp horror, Wraiths… read more
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9. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
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10. Hombre
By: Elmore Leonard
3.62
Format: 120 pages,
John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the… read more
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11. The Ox-Bow Incident
By: Wallace Stegner , Walter Van Tilburg Clark
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incidentis a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violen… read more
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12. The Quick and the Dead
By: Louis L'Amour
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was pre… read more
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13. Horseman, Pass By
By: Larry McMurtry
4.30
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LonesomeDovecomes the novel that became the basis for the… read more
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14. Warlock (Legends West, #1)
By: Robert Stone , Oakley Hall
3.87
Format: 268 pages,
Oakley Hall's legendary Warlockrevisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to p… read more
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16. Butcher's Crossing
By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more
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17. A Congregation of Jackals
By: S. Craig Zahler
4.11
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
One of Oswell's old bank-robbing gang is getting married out in Montana Territory, and the rest of … read more
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18. Little Big Man
By: Thomas Berger
4.09
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
'I am a white man and never forget it, but I was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians from the age of… read more
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19. Valdez Is Coming
By: Elmore Leonard
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him. But when a dark-skinned man was holed up in a … read more
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20. The Sisters Brothers
By: Patrick deWitt , Marcelo Barbão
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has… read more
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21. The Shootist
By: Glendon Swarthout , None
4.14
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
By the author of The Homesman, now a major motion picture The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a gun… read more
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