TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hansen,Ron
AU  - Clark,Walter Van Tilburg
AU  - Schaefer,Jack
AU  - Le May,Alan
AU  - Hall,Oakley M.
TI  - The Western: four classic novels of the 1940s & 50s 
T2  - Library of America
SN  - 9781598536614
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Library of America
KW  - Cowboys
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Cattle drives
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Ranch life
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - Conduct of life
KW  - Vendetta
KW  - Western fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Ox-bow incident; Walter Van Tilberg Clark --; Shane; Jack Schaefer --; Searchers; Alan Le May --; Warlock; Oakley Hall
N2  - "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
ER  -