tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post4234228244676696105..comments2024-03-28T18:21:09.285-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Ten More Western Authors I LikeJames Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-67454218990223998492013-10-28T14:31:56.374-05:002013-10-28T14:31:56.374-05:00Patten's FIGHTING RAWHIDE aka SUNBLADE is in f...Patten's FIGHTING RAWHIDE aka SUNBLADE is in first person.Richard Heftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-78893841433830518002013-10-25T14:54:30.511-05:002013-10-25T14:54:30.511-05:00Several authors here whose work I've liked as ...Several authors here whose work I've liked as well. Whittington's novelization of the Elvis western CHARRO is also good, though the film is supposedly very bad. Tells something of Whittington's abilities.jurinummelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16341211256652624861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-11862214648893700832013-10-22T13:46:58.796-05:002013-10-22T13:46:58.796-05:00Another first person Western you need to look for ...Another first person Western you need to look for is HELL TO PAY by J. Lee Butts, one of the best Western noirs I've read.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-9313759528503837822013-10-22T13:39:19.246-05:002013-10-22T13:39:19.246-05:00Appreciate the recs. I will track some of those do...Appreciate the recs. I will track some of those down. Charles R. Rutledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14265387377510655973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-51262225226479349702013-10-22T10:55:24.873-05:002013-10-22T10:55:24.873-05:00Oh, yeah, the first ten or twelve Gunsmith books b...Oh, yeah, the first ten or twelve Gunsmith books by Bob Randisi are in first person, too.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-82055168811104830532013-10-22T10:52:56.624-05:002013-10-22T10:52:56.624-05:00McCurtin's Carmody and Saddler series are firs...McCurtin's Carmody and Saddler series are first person, except for the first Carmody book. A number of Louis L'Amour's Sackett novels are in first person, as well as the stand-alone TO TAME A LAND, which is probably my favorite L'Amour novel. A few of Lewis B. Patten's novels are in first person, but I don't recall the titles at the moment. I'll look around my shelves and see what else I come up with, and maybe some other readers will weigh in with recommendations. I enjoy the first person Westerns, too, although to the best of my memory right now I've never written any novels that way, only a few short stories.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-74919167190053251412013-10-22T09:43:46.016-05:002013-10-22T09:43:46.016-05:00James can you recommend any Westerns written in fi...James can you recommend any Westerns written in first person? I know third is the norm but I enjoy reading in first. Not surprisingly a lot of the private eye guys have first person Western, Estleman, Pronzini, Gorman and such. Wondered if you had any favorites?Charles R. Rutledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14265387377510655973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-41608891631718462672013-10-21T08:31:39.549-05:002013-10-21T08:31:39.549-05:00Another swell list. Really appreciate the inclusio...Another swell list. Really appreciate the inclusion of McCurtin and your quick overview of the house names. Confusing sometimes, especially on Lassiter. Here's a good Whittington ACE Double (both by the author): Drygulch Town / Prairie RaidersRichard Proschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08314680709014254183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-67034113182860619282013-10-21T06:49:47.886-05:002013-10-21T06:49:47.886-05:00This second list of 10 more western authors has tw...This second list of 10 more western authors has two writers that I like alot: Peter Dawson and Harry Whittington. I've read some of the others but they did not impress me to be mentioned as favorites. <br /><br />We need more discussion like this post about western authors of the past. Too many of the pulp writers are in danger of being completely forgotten. It is true that we are living in the golden age of pulp reprints but the western reprint collections are few and far between and don't sell as well as the hero pulp and detective pulp reprints.<br /><br />Jon Tuska deserves our thanks for reprinting some collections showing the work of such writers as T.T. Flynn and Walt Coburn. <br /><br />I guess the best method of reading these writers remains collecting the old paperbacks from the 1950's and 1960's and collecting the original western pulps, especially the titles shown on the Saturday Morning Pulp posts. These western magazines are still easy to find and mostly quite inexpensive. I've seen hundreds at Pulpfest for instance. At one time these magazines were very popular on the newsstands and as a result back issues are not rare.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.com