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050 00 $aPS648.W4$bW438 2020
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245 04 $aThe Western :$bfour classic novels of the 1940s & 50s /$cRon Hansen, editor.
246 3 $aWestern :$bfour classic novels of the 1940s and 50s
246 3 $aWestern :$bfour classic novels of the forties and fifties
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bLibrary of America,$c[2020]
264 4 $c©2020
300 $axvi, 1094 pages ;$c21 cm.
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490 1 $aLibrary of America ;$v331
505 00 $tOx-bow incident /$rWalter Van Tilberg Clark --$tShane /$rJack Schaefer --$tSearchers /$rAlan Le May --$tWarlock /$rOakley Hall.
520 $aSet in Nevada in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a gripping story about the perils of lynch law and the fragility of civilized norms in the West. Outraged by reports of the murder of a rancher and the theft of cattle, a posse of vigilantes sets out to find the culprits but instead targets three strangers who are innocent of the crime. Walter Van Tilburg Clark's novel, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 1940, offers a powerful exploration of group psychology and the authoritarian impulse. The newspaper editor Jack Schaefer made his unforgettable fiction debut with a tale meant to encapsulate, in his words, "the basic legend of the West." In Shane (1949), Schaefer's narrator looks back at his boyhood fascination with a taciturn, charismatic ranch hand. Inspired by the Johnson County War in late-nineteenth-century Wyoming, Shane, Ron Hansen writes, "mythologizes those deadly skirmishes" into a story "that has the grandness of chapters in The Iliad." The Searchers (1954), written by Alan Le May at the height of his career as a novelist and Hollywood screenwriter, is a story of dogged fortitude that embodies the quintessential Western qualities of endurance, persistence, and, as Le May writes in the book's epigraph, "the courage of those who simply keep on, and on." Embarking on a mission to rescue a girl captured in a Comanche raid, Amos Edwards and Martin Pauley spend six years wandering across Texas on a quest to deliver young Debbie Edwards from captivity. In Warlock (1958), a bloody saga that anticipates the novels of Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy, Oakley Hall shows himself in complete command of the Western genre even as he upends its conventions. The southwestern mining town of Warlock has been plagued with lawlessness and brutality at the hands of cattle rustlers led by the vicious Abe McQuown. The local Citizens' Committee enlists Clay Blaisedell, renowned for his prowess with a six-shooter, to serve as Marshal. The story unfolds in scenes of tough-minded realism interspersed with the diary entries of Henry Holmes Goodpasture, a thoughtful citizen who quotes Shakespeare and the Bible as he laments Warlock's descent into violence and chaos.--$cPublisher's description.
520 8 $aIn literature as in film, the 1940s and 1950s were a high-water mark for the Western as a genre. In this landmark Library of America volume novelist Ron Hansen collects four unforgettable masterpieces from the period.00Set in Nevada in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a gripping story about the perils of lynch law and the fragility of civilized norms in the West. Outraged by reports of the murder of a rancher and the theft of cattle, a posse of vigilantes sets out to find the culprits but instead targets three strangers who are innocent of the crime. Walter Van Tilburg Clark?s novel, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 1940, offers a powerful exploration of group psychology and the authoritarian impulse.00The newspaper editor Jack Schaefer made his unforgettable fiction debut with a tale meant to encapsulate, in his words, ?the basic legend of the West.? In Shane (1949), Schaefer?s narrator looks back at his boyhood fascination with a taciturn, charismatic ranch hand. Inspired by the Johnson County War in late-nineteenth-century Wyoming, Shane, Ron Hansen writes, ?mythologizes those deadly skirmishes? into a story ?that has the grandness of chapters in The Iliad.?00The Searchers (1954), written by Alan Le May at the height of his career as a novelist and Hollywood screenwriter, is a story of dogged fortitude that embodies the quintessential Western qualities of endurance, persistence, and, as Le May writes in the book?s epigraph, ?the courage of those who simply keep on, and on.? Embarking on a mission to rescue a girl captured in a Comanche raid, Amos Edwards and Martin Pauley spend six years wandering across Texas on a quest to deliver young Debbie Edwards from captivity.00In Warlock (1958), a bloody saga that anticipates the novels of Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy, Oakley Hall shows himself in complete command of the Western genre even as he upends its conventions.
650 0 $aCowboys$zWest (U.S.)$vFiction.
650 0 $aCattle drives$zWest (U.S.)$vFiction.
650 0 $aMan-woman relationships$vFiction.
650 0 $aRanch life$vFiction.
650 0 $aFrontier and pioneer life$vFiction.
650 0 $aConduct of life$vFiction.
650 0 $aVendetta$vFiction.
650 7 $aVendetta.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01165132
650 7 $aRanch life.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01089735
650 7 $aMan-woman relationships.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01007080
650 7 $aCowboys.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00881986
650 7 $aCattle drives.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00849715
650 7 $aConduct of life.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00874563
650 7 $aFrontier and pioneer life.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00935370
651 7 $aWest United States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01243255
655 7 $aWestern fiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01726776
655 7 $aFiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423787
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700 1 $aHansen, Ron,$d1947-$eeditor.$4edt
700 1 $aClark, Walter Van Tilburg,$d1909-1971.$tOxbow incident.
700 1 $aSchaefer, Jack,$d1907-1991.$tShane.
700 1 $aLe May, Alan,$d1899-1964.$tSearchers.
700 1 $aHall, Oakley M.$tWarlock.
830 0 $aLibrary of America ;$v331.
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