The Desire for a Home: Individualism in Louis L’Amour’s Dark Canyon by Redmer Guy

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A Book on the Making of Lonesome Dove, by John Spong by Matthew Carter

“…Originating in William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s “Wild West Show” and the dime novels of the nineteenth century, and accorded greater cultural status by novels such as Owen Wister’s The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains(1902) and Zane Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage (1912), the Western has continued to stimulate literary output, inspiring writers as diverse as Louis L’Amour, John Seelye and E. L. Doctorow.…”
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