Best books about cowboys?
>>25311933lonesome doveblood meridian/thread
>>25311933>>25311942also brokeback mountain by annie proulx but that's a short story (the collection it's from is amazing)
>>25311945>>25311942Are those really about cowboys? Or do they just take place in the wild west? Thats a big difference.
>>25311948all three are about cowboys
>>25311980Should I read Blood Meridian? I read the Road and I thought it was trash
>>25312038yes, you should read blood meridian
>>25311942you didn't like butcher's crossing?
Don Quixote.
Blood Meridian is not about cowboys.All the Pretty Horses is thoughbeit
collected western short stories of elmore leonard
>>25311933Are you looking for fiction or non-fiction?
>>25312201Both
>>25312174I take that back. They do briefly drive some plundered stock. But for the most part they are scalphunters and brigands not cowboys
Picolata Road - It's a historic Florida novel, has a lot of interesting bits about old Florida in an underexplored era.
>>25312038Yes, it's probably the most important novel written in the past 100 years. That's not to say you'll like it, it's disgusting. But it's important.
The Gunslinger and Blood Meridian are both pretty great.
>>25312120That’s my thoughts also. Cowboys ar ethe American modern day parable to knights and the chiVALRIC
>>25311933The Brothers Sisters
>>25312571I'm genuinely shocked nobody's written a Don Quixote adaptation about cowboys yet. It seems so obvious
>>25312630Not really, the cultural dynamics of the two settings are totally different. You'd have to tack on a bunch of only vaguely related shit to the concept of a cowboy to make it fit the "anachronistic knight" thing and even then that would force you to set it well after the wild west period had ended in which case you're not even doing what you set out to anymore.
Louis L'Amour James Fenimore Cooper Andy AdamsWill James
>>25312660Not really it translates pretty well.
>>25312754isn't this the guy that got filtered by fucking Fallout 1?
>>25312829idk, he rambles too much anyway, but he's got funny jokes
>>25311933The VirginianShaneTrue GritWarlockThe ShootistThe Lonesome GodsThe Time It Never RainedThe Searchers
>>25312083haven't read it yet. That reminds me, I also intend to read Warlock, which I've heard is a western.
>>25311933I still have my granny's collection of western novels. Dime novels.
We Pointed Them North by E. C. Abbott.
Epitaph
>>25312201>non-fictionThis biography of Billy the Kid is quite good.
Them Sackett boyz
>>25312323>it's boring but dude it's LE IMPORTANTpeak midwit post
100% Pynchon approved.
>>25311933Elmer Kelton
>>25311933
Deadwood
>>25312794I agree actually.A prairie farmer who lives slightly well off who reads nonstop about Billy the kid and countless cowboys rots their brain until they sell everything and go ride a horse to get some "justice" done or something.
Prepare your anus
Good or pozzed?
Going to recommend this one if you like westerns and sci-fi
>>25316664Been meaning to read this. Have it downloaded. Had a customer suggest it to me and it seems like kind of a cool crossover of genres. Thanks for reminding me of it, I'll read it after my current book.
>>25311942fpbp
Yes I love blood meridian, lonesome doves, butchers crossing, etc... but this right here is something wild.
>>25312630The Brave Cowboy, Edward Abbey
