The Western : four classic novels of the 1940s & 50s / Ron Hansen, editor.

• Ox-bow incident / Walter Van Tilberg Clark -- Shane / Jack Schaefer -- Searchers / Alan Le May -- Warlock / Oakley Hall.

• "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. 

Ämnesord

Rancher  (sao)

Vilda västern  (sao)

Cowboys  (sao)

Boskapsskötare  (sao)

Mänskliga relationer  (sao)

Blodshämnd  (sao)

Nybyggarliv  (sao)

Nybyggare  (sao)

Cowboys  -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Cattle drives  -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Ranch life  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Frontier and pioneer life  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Conduct of life  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Vendetta  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Vendetta.  (fast)

Ranch life.  (fast)

Man-woman relationships.  (fast)

Cowboys.  (fast)

Cattle drives.  (fast)

Conduct of life.  (fast)

Frontier and pioneer life.  (fast)

Cowboys  (LCSH)

Livestock workers  (LCSH)

Frontier and pioneer life  (LCSH)

Interpersonal relations  (LCSH)

Ranches  (LCSH)

Pioneers  (LCSH)

West United States.  (fast)

Genre

Romaner  (saogf)

Historiska skildringar  (saogf)

Äventyrsskildringar  (saogf)

Western fiction.  (fast)

Fiction.  (fast)

Western fiction.  (lcgft)

Klassifikation

813/.087408 (DDC)