| Description |
xvi, 1094 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Library of America ; 331
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Library of America ; 331.
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| Contents |
Ox-bow incident / Walter Van Tilberg Clark -- Shane / Jack Schaefer -- Searchers / Alan Le May -- Warlock / Oakley Hall. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Subject |
Cowboys -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction.
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Cowboys. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Cattle drives -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction.
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Cattle drives. |
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships. |
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Ranch life -- Fiction.
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Ranch life. |
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction. |
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Conduct of life -- Fiction.
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Conduct of life. |
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Vendetta -- Fiction.
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Vendetta. |
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
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West United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Western fiction.
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| Added Author |
Hansen, Ron, 1947- editor.
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Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, 1909-1971.
Oxbow incident.
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Schaefer, Jack, 1907-1991.
Shane.
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Le May, Alan, 1899-1964.
Searchers.
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Hall, Oakley M.
Warlock.
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| Added Title |
Western : four classic novels of the 1940s and 50s |
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Western : four classic novels of the forties and fifties |
| ISBN |
1598536613 (hardcover) : $39.95 |
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9781598536614 (hardcover) : $39.95 |
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