The vast open plains, the promise of gold in the distance, the brave pioneers who risked everything for a new life…there's ...

Andrew Hilleman's thrilling western, World, Chase Me Down, re- imagines the life of a turn-of-the-20th-century kidnapper who committed the first “crime of the century.” Hilleman picks 10 great western ...

Stacey Lee's YA novel Under a Painted Sky showcases the danger and the beauty of life on the Oregon Trail for a Chinese-American girl and a runaway slave. After a tragic accident forces them to go on ...

From True Grit to No Country for Old Men, novel adaptations have given the Western some of its greatest films, exploring the legend of the gunslinger and life on the American frontier. The history of ...

The “Moby Dick” of Western novels, and the source material for one of the most famous television miniseries of all time, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic offers something for everyone.

In the second half of the 19th century, the figure of the cowboy emerged as the defining feature of American Western literature. Publishers found success with dime Westerns, novels mythologizing the ...

Dozens of old and rare Western books will be on display at Beijing's National Museum of Classic Books from Aug 1 for groups and Sept 9 for individuals. As many as 50,000 copies of old books published ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What readers are saying: “There are simply not enough superlatives to do complete justice to Lonesome Dove. Larry McMurtry—a ...