Western Writers
Passion for the Old West — here are some sites
Understanding and appreciating life in the Old West requires passion, not just a knowledge of the facts. I was reminded of that today by one of our site visitors. I got the message through this site’s feedback form. I wasn’t quite sure whether he was being serious or sarcastic (I’ll get into that further along.) Here’s what the person who left the comment had to say:
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Love Western fiction? Here’s a site that reviews Westerns
Ran onto a nice resource blog for all of us who love Western novels. Don’t know why I hadn’t found this before. It’s a blog called “Western Fiction Review,” and it pretty much does exactly that: The author of the blog has some really nicely written reviews of Western novels, current and past, and some fascinating interviews with some Western writers — also current and recent past.
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Robert B. Parker: Not a bad Western writer for a crime novelist
As crime/private eye novelists go, Robert B. Parker of “Spenser” fame is not too bad of a Western writer, too.
If you are completely unfamiliar with the private-eye character Spenser of novel and television fame, you must be living in an alternate universe, or completely uninterested in detective fiction/crime novels. Tell me that isn’t true. I’m a major Spenser fan myself, and I’ve read just about all of Robert B. Parker’s novels, including the Sonny Randall crime novels, his first Phillip Marlow novel, and all but three of his “non-genre” novels. So, yes, I am a big fan.
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One of western history’s best — get Robert Utley’s books
Robert M. Utley is a first-rate historian and a terrific writer of the history of the old west. If you haven’t read his books, they are well worth getting from Amazon, other online sources, and/or your local public library.
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Western writers of note: Richard S. Wheeler — no one does it better
Richard S. Wheeler’s novels run the gamut from shoot-em-up rip roarin’ tales to gripping historical novels set in the West. He does traditional westerns and he does terrific historicals.
Wheeler’s best known series novels are those crafted around a scruffy renegade mountain man named Barnaby Skye. At last count, there were 16 Barnaby Skye novels in print, though I haven’t kept up personally in recent years. The Skye character was shanghaied into the British Navy, jumped ship in the Pacific Northwest, and settled in as a mountain man, trapping and living with the Indians. He earned a reputation as a man of true justice, fearless courage, fearsome battle, and tenderness with his two Indian wives, Victoria and Mary.
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Western writers of note: Love him or not, Louis L’Amour was a force of nature
If and when the average reader thinks of “Westerns” he probably things of a small hand full of writers. Somewhere near the most-recalled names of Western writers would be Louis L’Amour.
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