The Western : four classic novels of the 1940s & 50s /
The Western : four classic novels of the 1940s & 50s /
Western : four classic novels of the 1940s and 50s Western : four classic novels of the forties and fifties
Ron Hansen, editor.
- xvi, 1094 pages ; 21 cm.
- Library of America ; 331 .
- Library of America ; 331. .
Ox-bow incident / Shane / Searchers / Warlock / Walter Van Tilberg Clark -- Jack Schaefer -- Alan Le May -- Oakley Hall.
"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.
9781598536614 1598536613
Cowboys--West (U.S.)--Fiction.
Cattle drives--West (U.S.)--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Ranch life--Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.
Conduct of life--Fiction.
Vendetta--Fiction.
Western fiction.
Ox-bow incident / Shane / Searchers / Warlock / Walter Van Tilberg Clark -- Jack Schaefer -- Alan Le May -- Oakley Hall.
"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.
9781598536614 1598536613
Cowboys--West (U.S.)--Fiction.
Cattle drives--West (U.S.)--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Ranch life--Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.
Conduct of life--Fiction.
Vendetta--Fiction.
Western fiction.