Books and Stories about the Old West

The Western Character in Westerns

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:34:40 +0000

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.

For the Writers: Describing the Western Fiction Character

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:01:28 +0000

The character in a western fiction novel may not have to conform to any particular description of his or her features, but if you want to lend credibility to your character, you’ll put some description that conforms to the period as well as to the culture, and to the kind of work done by the character.

Watch Western Movies on the Kindle Fire

admin — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:05:33 +0000

The Kindle Fire is the best device on the market to watch movies

ON WESTERN-FANTASY NOVELS

admin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:55:20 +0000

A former orphan of New York’s slums, and a Civil War veteran, Watt O’Hugh does what many young desperate men from the 19th century East did – he goes West. He works on a cattle run, fights a range war, becomes a dime novel hero, then an outlaw, all the time determined to save Lucy Billings, the socialite-with-a-past whom he loved and lost in New York City before the War.