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Weirdly Western
Offbeat novels and short stories of
the west. Provided by the staff at the West
Universty Branch Library.
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- Thomas Berger.
Little
Big Man
- Madcap remembrances
of the Wild West as told by 111 year-old Jack Crabb, otherwise
known as Little Big Man.
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- Richard Brautigan.
Hawkline Monster: A
Gothic Western
- In 1902, hired
gunmen pursue a monstrous creature created by an eccentric professor
in eastern Oregon.
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- Loren Estleman.
Billy Gashade
- A ballad singer's
journey through the untamed West, including scenes with Billy
the Kid, Jesse James and others.
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- Jim Fergus. 1000
White Women: the Journals of May Dodd
- A group of white
women (and one black woman) become Cheyenne Indian brides, traded
for horses in a preposterous governmental experiment.
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- Ray Gonzalez.
The Ghost of John Wayne and Other Stories
- 25 stories set
in the borderlands of Juarez, El Paso, San Antonio and New Mexico.
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- Ric L. Hardman.
Sunshine Rider: the First Vegetarian Western
- Seventeen year
old vegetarian Wylie Jackson experiences brief employment as a
chuck wagon cook, medicine man, huckster, and also impersonates
a doctor in this humorous, fast-paced novel.
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- Mackey Hedges.
The Last Buckaroo
- The rollicking
escapades of a young drugstore cowboy and his new friend, an old
saddle tramp.
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- Louis L'Amour.
The Haunted Mesa
- Investigator
Mike Ragan tries to find a missing friend, and also just how or
why the cliff-dwelling Anasazi tribe disappeared long ago.
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- Joe Lansdale.
Razored Saddles
- A short story
anthology mixing horror, science fiction and western elements.
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- Joe Lansdale.
Zeppelins West
- Buffalo Bill
Cody takes his Wild West show to Japan via zeppelin.
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- Christopher Moore.
Coyote Blue
- In search of
his missing girlfriend, an L.A. insurance man gets assistance
from Old Man Coyote, a shapeshifter.
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- Edwin Shrake.
Blessed McGill
- How a violent,
rowdy buffalo hunter becomes the first Roman Catholic saint of
North America.
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- David Thomson.
Silver Light
- Cinematic western
heroes mix with actual history-makers such as Geronimo, Judge
Roy Bean and Billy the Kid.
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