Westerns
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TITLE: The Sisters Brothers
AUTHOR: Patrick deWitt WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC deW - HUMOR SUMMARY: When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers. |
TITLE: True Grit
AUTHOR: Charles Portis WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Por - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: With her papa's pistol tied to her saddlehorn and a supersized ration of audacity, fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross sets out to avenge her father's murder. |
TITLE: Winter in the Blood
AUTHOR: James Welch WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Wel - NATIVE COLLECTION SUMMARY: A troubled 32-year-old Blackfoot Indian returns home to Montana, even though he feels he doesn't belong there. |
TITLE: Lonesome Dove
AUTHOR: Larry McMurtry WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC McM - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Former Texas Rangers leave their unsuccessful cattle business when they hear of good opportunities in newly opened territory. |
TITLE: All the Pretty Horses
AUTHOR: Cormac McCarthy WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC McC - ADVENTURE SUMMARY: Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure. |
TITLE: Blood Meridian
AUTHOR: Cormac McCarthy WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC McC - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: The tale of a dispossessed young man and the band of bloodthirsty mercenaries he joins up with in Mexico in the 1800s. |