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Classic Westerns

Even if you don't like Westerns, the classic Western novels might transcend your taste buds. Here is a list of Westerns that I have read, or plan to read, because of their exceptional reviews or reputation. On this list, but not in the library: The Shootist by Swartout and Hondo by Louis L'Amour. The complete version of Log of a Cowboy by Andy Adams is also recommended, but the BPL only has Trail Drive, an incomplete version of the novel that is not recommended.

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The ox-bow incident
Walter Van Tilburg Clark ; introduction by Wallace Stegner.
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Angle of repose
Wallace Stegner ; with an introduction by Jackson J. Benson.
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Trail drive;
Edited and illustrated by Glen Rounds.
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Not recommended, read the complete version of 'Log of a Cowboy.' Try pg12797 from Project Gutenberg.

The brave cowboy
Edward Abbey.
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The big sky
A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
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True grit
Charles Portis ; with an afterword by Donna Tartt.
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