Western Novels and Their Authors

Western Novels…and their authors

***OOPS! Grammar check. I said, "Western Fiction and their authors" and should have said, "Western Fiction and ITs authors"***

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[TUCOtheratt]

L'Amour is my favorite. I love those segments when he describes a scene, painting a vivid picture with the least amount of perfect words.

[alacharger]

You rarely saw me without a western paperback during my teen years. I still have a huge collection of them. I was, and am still a huge Louis L'Amour fan, as well as Luke Short and Clair Huffaker. Good video! Thanks for posting!

[thomasallen]

My dad got me into reading Western novels back in the early 1960’s. We would go to Arizona every other year to see family and friends and go to Old Tucson, Tombstone, Bisbee and would stay with family in Patagonia. My aunt’s family owned a huge ranch in the mountains around Patagonia. They also owned The Wagon Wheel Bar in Patagonia, and back in the 60’s it was the oldest family owned bar in Arizona. The ranch had several ghost towns on it which were associated with the abandoned mines that were on the ranch. So I’ve been heavily influenced by the time I spent in Arizona.

[gsdfan]

I’m 56 and grew up reading Louis L’amour books and am still rereading them today. He will always be my favorite. Elmore Leonard also wrote some of my favorites. Both crime and western.

[rhondaz]

Somehow you ALWAYS manage to cover the topic, *educate many of us along the way... and give us the BEST audio/visual inserts and clips, Santee and company. THANK YOU.
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[Snuffy]

Yippee Ki Yay. It's Saturday and time for Santee's video of western wisdom. I grew up reading all these fantastic books. Thanks for bringing them to the attention of those who may not have been as fortunate as I to know of them. Louis L'Amour book, The Ferguson Rifle, fascinated me with his knowledge of Major Ferguson's innovative weapon. As a grown man I had a custom gunmaker build me a Ferguson Rifle. I was not disappointed. Thanks again pardner.

[anangryranger]

Now in my 70s, I have time on my hands and though movies are great, nothing can beat a good western novel. Been reading 'em since a lad in the late 1950s. There must be over 500 books on western novels alone in my storage building. And periodically I'll go out and grab a handful of them for evening reading. And though I've read them all, its always a treat to do so again after many years. 😉

[Cole]

One of so many videos you release that I wish was longer

[nate]

Love me that McCarthy westerns, whether set in the 1850s or the 1980s, gotta respect a man who barely uses punctuation.

[lawrencelewis]

I recall reading a book by L'Amour where his character is in an Austrian mountain town called Axams. I was there in 1978 and realised, this guy knows what he's talking about. I would suggest "The Court Martial of General George Armstrong Custer" by Douglas C. Jones as well as his "Elkhorn" series of novels. A great writer.

In Germany there was a writer named Karl May who wrote Western stories. He died in 1912 and never came to the USA but his stories remain popular over there. The same characters are in most of his books. I have seen Western theme parks similar to Old Tuscon where people re-enact the old West. They take it seriously, too.

[DynamixWarePro]

I had an interesting coincidence when researching my 3rd great-granduncle, Thomas Mckeag. He left Ireland sometime in the 1800s, went to the US and had a stake in a silver mine in Silver Star, Madison, Montana in the later half of the 1800s. When I searched for McKeag and Montana, I found an unrelated book, "McKeag's Mountain" by L.J. Martin which is about a fictional McKeag family of Lucky Seven Ranch in Montana. I haven't yet got a copy of it, but I am going to get one.

I have the complete Dollar series by Joe Millard. My dad passed them onto me. He was dyslexic and didn't read much but he liked Westerns and WW2 novels and had a number of those.

[squint]

Capt. Call has spoken!! See you next week for another "coffee visit" Santee! Have a good week!

[carpykeith]

I used to read a series of westerns by a British author, JT Edson, quite “romanticised” about fast draws, rustling, lawmen etc but he expanded into over 100 different books and brought the west to the 1920’s and even the 1960’s with his Lawmen of Rockabye county series before he went to the great range in the sky!

[adrockey]

Great video! Back when I was in high school I read a lot of Zane Gray books. Between my junior and senior year in high school I worked at Camp Geronimo as a Wrangler . As you probably know it is the Boy Scout camp north of Payson. Zan Greys cabin was to the east couple hilltops over that burned down in 1989 when I was in the army. It was exciting to read about milk Ranch point, Turkey Springs, and bear Springs. Those places on each side of me around camp Geronimo.

[TimKoehn]

Great episode Santee! Have a great weekend! Cheers!

[steveb]

Those orange bookshelves look like a visit to Bookmans.

[paulyoungtrains]

I highly recommend the books of Terry C. Johnston. He wrote The Plainsman series which follows his fictional Irishman, Seamus Donegan through the Plains Indian Wars, starting with the Fetterman Massacre of 1866. He also wrote a series about mountain man Titus Bass.

[SteveMrW]

Here in the U.K. I loved western novels by several American authors, however one of my favourite authors was Englishman JT Edson with his Dusty Fog floating outfit series.

[stephenalexander]

Swarthout was from my hometown, Lowell, Michigan.

[SeenBeatleofDoom]

Blood Meridian and Hawk the Cowdog series are the greatest Western novels of all time.