What are some essential western books to read?
Western fiction
Dylan Rogers
Dominic Hill
Blood Meridian & read all of Mark Twain's novels
Brandon Peterson
Cat in the Hat is a good place to start if you want to truly understand the literary genies that is Dr Seuss, who is perhaps the greatest influence on western literature as a whole. His writings influenced nearly every major western novel up till this day.
Aiden Cox
Warlock
butcher's crossing
blood meme
that's it
Jackson Clark
Don't bother reading the sequels to lonesome dove.
Jeremiah Peterson
That one part in At Swim-Two-Birds
Eli Fisher
Is this just copying what the introduction to Butcher's Crossing says?
Ethan Lee
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Camden Hernandez
I don't read introductions. those are the only 3 I've read. blood meme was pretty good. Warlock was alright. butcher's was meh. so if those are the best the genre has to offer I can't see anything else being that good tbhfam
Caleb Smith
They're the holy trinity of literary westerns.
(Warlock > Butcher's Crossing >> Bloody Mediterranean)