Favourites by these authors include 'Chiricahua' (Will Henry), 'Two Roads to Guadalupe' and 'The Travels of Jaime McPheeters' (Robert Lewis Taylor), 'Sioux Dawn' & 'Red Cloud's Revenge' (Johnston), 'Monte Walsh' (Scaeffer), 'Second Lives' (Wheeler) & 'One Last Town' (Braun).

C

One Last Town by Braun is a great story about an old gunfighter :> You might even recognize the name from some of LL's writings :0)

I forgot about Richard Wheeler he is a good author

I just finished one of the GunSmith books by J.R. Roberts, it was book #55, Hell on Wheels. I found Mr. Roberts to be different from L'Amour in a couple of ways. (1) Roberts gets fairly graphic when talking about interpersonal relationships and (2) This book had far shorter chapters with about 38 in the 180 or so pages.
I did find the book interesting and a good read with multiple places where you could pause and place a marker in the book. Since the chapters were very short there was not near the detailed building of the main characters but enough to make them seem somewhat personal. The only less than positive thing was the graphic nature of some of the passages. I am not a prude by any means, however, I guess I have not read enough from different Western Authors to get a good feel for that aspect of Mr. Robert's Book.
I do plan on getting some more of the GunSmith books as they provide a different feel from the L'Amour books.

Other authors who have written stuff I like would include Luke Short, T.V Olsen and Matt Braun. My favorite Matt Braun book Is "Bloody Hand". Larry McMurtry wrote some good Westerns but when he branched out and began to write stories about the earlier lives of the characters in Lonesome Dove, I found many of those stories to be just silly.

"Good thing we ain't all alike" opined one old country gentleman sitting around the country store's stove; "otherwise ye'd all be a wantin' my wife"! After a brief pause, a reply came from the other side of the pot-bellied stove, "Why shucks, if they was all like me, nobody'd have her".

I guess that is why book stores have so many books---it takes a lot to meet the likes of everyone.

LRJ

Finally, his wife stopped the nagging and simply said to him, "How would you like it if you didn't see me for two or three days?"

To which he replied, "That would be fine with me."

Monday went by and he didn't see his wife. Tuesday and Wednesday came and went with the same results.

Thursday, the swelling went down just enough where he could see her a little out of the corner of his left eye

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As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way.

Tennessee Dave

Also, I realized that I forgot to add the author Lauran Paine who was apparently a contemporary Of LL. He too wrote some good stories.

I find that many writers have maybe one good story in their heads but then they sort of dry up. Just my opinion.

Tennessee Dave

I wondered about that recommendation

Tennessee Dave

I can't remember titles.
I also confuse Ralph Compton and Ralph Cotton.
I do not like brutality described to the ultimate gore. In LL they guy could be shot to pieces and you didn't feel sick after reading it. IN some of these others you have to read about every blood drop. Sick.
Also I do not like sexual scenes. Of course Cotton and Compton were not as bad as Johnstone and them on these

Tennessee Dave

WWW.fantasticfiction.co.uk

It's so easy to use even I can do it. Under 'Browse Authors' just click on the first initial of an author's last name, scroll down to find the author's name (i.e., L'Amour!) and click on that...and you will see all the works written by the author, including the works of that author under aliases, etc. You'll even see a few 'New and Forthcoming Works' listed there! It is a very handy reference. I guarantee if you have not seen this sight before, you'll love it. Very handy.

K Bar 76.

I understand Rick's point. It's too bad that there has to be so much gratutious sex in those novels because the main story line is interesting enough to make for a decent series.

There must be enough fans of this type of the so-called "Adult Western" to support the hundreds of novels written in this series going back over 30 years. Sad commentary.

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"Ain't nuthin' like ridin' a fine horse in new country." ~Agustus MacCrae (Robert Duvall-"Lonesome Dove")

As for sex scenes, if they are a genuine part of the story and are done in good taste I don't mind. If they are in bad taste or contain violence I can't be bothered with them.

When it comes to westerns I plain did not like, the 'Wilderness' series of books about Mountain Man Nathaniel King by David Thompson come to mind. Now I find the era in which these books take place fascinating, but in my opinion these novels were terribly cliched and predictable, and not very well written. Has anyone else read any of them?

C