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Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. [1] Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 20th century and Louis L'Amour from the mid-20th century.
The Buckskin Man Tales is a series of five Western novels by American author Frederick Manfred which traces themes through the 19th-century Great Plains.Each novel is set in a different time and place on the American frontier, with most of them telling fictionalized stories about real historical people and events.
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
The second longest-running network western series. Boomtown: United States 1956–1974 Rex Trailer: Children's television series Boots and Saddles: United States 1957–1958 38 John Pickard, Patrick McVey, Gardner McKay: Bordertown: United States 1989–1991 78 John H. Brennan, Richard Comar, Sophie Barjac: Branded: United States 1965–1966 48
His most widely known Western fiction works include Last of the Breed, Hondo, Shalako, and the Sackett series. L'Amour also wrote historical fiction (The Walking Drum), science fiction (The Haunted Mesa), non-fiction (Frontier), and poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films.
The Awakening Land trilogy by Conrad Richter is a series of three novels that explore the lives of a white American frontier family in the Ohio Valley from the late 18th century to the middle of the 19th. The series consists of The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950); the third novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951 ...