This book is one of those quintessential Western genre books that helped kind of set the tone of what we know about them now. It’s not the first, as the Westerns we know began before the “West” was the “West” and it’s not even the earliest, clearest example either, as Owen Wister’s The Virginian came out about ten years earlier. But it was widely popular, set up and/or explored numerous familiar tropes, and presented all of it in a clear, concise voice. The story here […]