If you're looking for simple Westerns that are "true to the genre," use the links below:
Western Films |
Western Fiction |
"The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind."
-Darryl Ponicsan
(ca. Tom Mix Died for Your Sins: A Novel Based on His Life (New York: Delacorte Press, 1975), p. 135)
Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn
Call Number: 630.9776 FRIEND
Call Number: 306.76097 GARRINGER 2024
Call Number: DVD MOVIE POWER
Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
Call Number: 306.766 BRORBY BIOGRAPHY 2022
Call Number: FICTION MYERS
How Much of These Hills is Gold
Call Number: FICTION ZHANG
Call Number: FICTION CRAVENS
Men in Eden: William Drummond Stewart and Same-Sex Desire in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade
Call Number: 306.766 STEWART BIOGRAPHY 2012
Call Number: FICTION PROULX
Call Number: SCIENCE FICTION GAILEY
Call Number: FICTION NORTH
Call Number: SCIENCE FICTION CURTIS
Call Number: FICTION SAVAGE
Set in 1920s Montana, this compelling domestic drama tells the story of two brothers -- and of the woman and young boy, mother and son, whose arrival on the brothers' ranch shatters an already tenuous peace. From the novel's startling first paragraph to its very last word, Thomas Savage's voice -- and the intense passion and cruelty of his characters -- holds readers in thrall.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE BROKEBACK
It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other through their proximity, loneliness and through a shared lack of tenderness and emotion in their lives.
