The American West in Fiction

Part I. The East goes West -- Jack Slade, desperado (1872) / Mark Twain
-- Salomy Jane's kiss (1897) / Bret Harte -- A man and some others
(1897) / Stephen Crane -- A sergeant of the orphan troop (1898) /
Frederic Remington -- Hank's woman (1900) / Owen Wister -- Part II.
Where West was West -- A man called horse (1953) / Dorothy M. Johnson --
The wild land (1913) / Willa Cather -- The last thunder song (1907) /
John G. Neihardt -- The bird in the bush (1917) / Eugene Manlove Rhodes
-- McQuestion rides (1939) / Ernest Haycox -- Part III. The West of the
storytellers -- The desert crucible (1915) / Zane Grey -- Wine on the
desert (1936) / Max Brand -- War party (1959) / Louis L'Amour --
Massacre (1947) / James Warner Bellah -- Court day (1939) / Luke Short
-- Part IV. The West in revision -- Desert command (1980)/ Elmer Kelton
-- Lapwai winter (1966) / Will Henry -- The slaughter (1965) / Benjamin
Capps -- The wind and the snow of winter (1944)/ Walter Van Tilburg
Clark -- Candles in the bottom of the pool (1973) / Max Evans.