Oregon City Adult Western Genre List

Western books in the Oregon City Adult Fiction Collection.

Updated November 15, 2024
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County) Oregon City Public Library
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The ox-bow incident
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
Paper Book
The murder of a cowboy sends a vigilante group on a frenzied hunt to track down the killer
Giant
Ferber, Edna
Paper Book
"A powerful story...truly as big as its subject." -- Los Angeles Times The basis for the classic film starring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson, Giant is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's sweeping generational tale of power, love, cattle barons, and...
Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West
McCarthy, Cormac
Paper Book
Lonesome Dove : a novel
McMurtry, Larry.
Paper Book
The Pulitzer Prize­-winning classic of the American West that follows two aging Texas Rangers embarking on one last adventure. An epic of the frontier and rich with complex characters, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness. ...
True grit
Portis, Charles.
Paper Book
A #1 New York Times bestseller, Charles Portis's True Grit is "an epic and a legend" (Washington Post), a story of danger and adventure in the Old West--the basis for two award-winning films, the first starring John Wayne in his only Oscar-winning role, as...
The Virginian
Wister, Owen
Paper Book
The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister's classic popular romance, and the most significant shaping influence on cowboy fiction. Its narrator, fresh from the East, encounters in Wyoming cattle country a strange, seductive and often violent land where the handsome figure of the Virginian battles for...

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