The Best Western Literature


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Nominated Works

  1. Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove [4 votes]
  2. Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose [3 votes]
  3. Alan Le May, Searchers [2 votes]
    Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
  4. Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West [1 Vote]
    Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang
    Bruce Berger, The Telling Distance: Conversations with the American Desert
    Bruce Berger, There Was a River
    Karen Berger & Daniel R. Smith, Where the Waters Divide: A Walk Along America's Continental Divide
    Dee Brown, Custer Died for Your Sins
    Stephen Crane, "The Blue Hotel" -- On-Line Version
    Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
    A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Big Sky
    A. B. Guthrie, The Way West
    Robinson Jeffers, Cawdor
    Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
    Tom Lea, Wonderful Country
    Fred Manfred, Lord Grizzly
    Karl May, Der Sohn des Bärenjägers
    Karl May, Der Schatz im Silbersee
    Karl May, Im Tal des Todes
    Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
    James Michener, Centennial
    O. E. Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth
    Jack Schaefer, Shane
    Gary Snyder, Myths and Texts
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
    Mark Twain, Roughing It -- On-Line Version

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