Way back when I was in high school, by cracky, we had certain novels listed as required reading when we weren't in class, churning butter or plowing fields. Aside from books by Hemingway, Dickens, Orwell, Steinbeck, and several others was The Virginian by Owen Wister.
I recently started and am enjoying Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry, whose Lonesome Dove tops many lists of great westerns. [Lonesome Dove is so good that describing it as a western may be like calling Moby Dick a sea story.]
Which western novels - not films - would you recommend?
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