Western Fiction

You can steal from a man and he may forgive you. Beat a man, and he may try to hurt you. But, harm someone he loves, touch his family, and he'll not forgive you. And, if you harm the wife of a man like Weston Teague, he won't just hurt you. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Comanche were the best light cavalry in the entire hemisphere, if not the planet. Gwynne says of the Comanche: "No one could out ride them or outshoot them from the back of a horse."[ReviewAZON name="empire summer moon" id="3" display="inlinepost" asin="B0070D2XC8" trackingid="oldwest237-20" country="us" width="200px" float="left" imagetop="10px"] Read the rest of this entry »

Writers of western fiction vary in their treatment of characters, especially the lead characters and the villans. Zane Grey, for example, always portrayed the hero as this solitary figure, typically with a past, taciturn to a fault, and possessed of sterling character when it comes to women, particularly the heroine that he is destined to rescue or protect. Read the rest of this entry »