Westerns

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Lately I'm devouring Westerns. LIT has no Westerns category but Westerns are fulla romance and sex and controversial sexual/social issues.

 

[SamScribble]

Lately I'm devouring Westerns. LIT has no Westerns category but Westerns are fulla romance and sex and controversial sexual/social issues.

Well, I know for a fact that one of Lit's better writers is a big fan of westerns. Maybe she'll have a dabble.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Yeah, good point. There absolutely has to be a 'Western' category. Even if it simply means people stick some agreed prefix in the story title.

 

[Seanathon]

I've enjoyed all of Elmore Leonard and Cormac McCarthy's old west stuff. Brules by Harry Combs is also a great read. But what I really love are the true tales of the wild west (I'm reading Forty Times a Killer by William M. Johnstone atm).

For readers looking for westerns on Literotica, I believe Woodmanone has some of the best stuff. https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=928468&page=submissions

 

[TxRad]

I have three under construction. Or maybe four. Maybe i should finish one.

 

[49greg]

Seems like I read a sort of a western here on Lit, think the name was "Grand Island" I remember it because one set of grandparents are from that part of Nebraska. Not truly a western because most of it takes place on a train.

Seems like I read another here as well, but many years ago.

I've got an incomplete western story for lit, about a drifter and a mail order bride from back East. I'm sure that the romance book industry has a lot of tales dealing with the same idea, which is one reason I never finished my story.

 

[49greg]

I've enjoyed all of Elmore Leonard and Cormac McCarthy's old west stuff. Brules by Harry Combs is also a great read. But what I really love are the true tales of the wild west (I'm reading Forty Times a Killer by William M. Johnstone atm).

For readers looking for westerns on Literotica, I believe Woodmanone has some of the best stuff. https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=928468&page=submissions

Didn't Jonstone also write a huge series of books about a survivalist/post apocalyptic future?

I'm also an Elmore Leonard fan, not so much the westerns although I did get a package of his westerns on Kindle and enjoyed them all.

 

[oggbashan]

I've read many westerns - Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour and even J T Edson.

The original western genre would seem to fit in the Romance category - the guy with the white hat outshoots the guy with the black hat and rides off into the sunset with the girl.

 

[TxRad]

I've read many westerns - Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour and even J T Edson.

The original western genre would seem to fit in the Romance category - the guy with the white hat outshoots the guy with the black hat and rides off into the sunset with the girl.

That or ends up kissing his horse.

Uh, maybe not. That bestiality thing.

 

[oggbashan]

That or ends up kissing his horse.

Uh, maybe not. That bestiality thing.

Or kissing his Colt revolver?

That well-known phallic symbol?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

ALAN LEMAY wrote tons of Westerns, THE UNFORGIVEN, is the best ever written or made into a film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjuGKZlEeFo

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnsdJVMBQW4

THE SEARCHERS by Alan Lemay. Another stellar Western. Uncle Ethan spends years looking for Debbie, captured by the Comanches as a child.

 

[Carnevil9]

That or ends up kissing his horse.

Uh, maybe not. That bestiality thing.

And you don't even want to try to submit a story called "The Old Cow-Poke."

 

[TxRad]

And you don't even want to try to submit a story called "The Old Cow-Poke."

I have one in the works called "The Sexual Rodeo" that might turn some heads.

 

[ishtat]

I read "Riders of the Purple Sage" by Zane Grey when I was 11 or so. There's a passage where Bern Ventor? (might have that name a bit wrong) discovers that the person he has shot is a woman. In my minds (aging) eye "the unmistakeable swell of a womans breast," is still one of the most erotic phrases I have ever read!

The climax is the killing of the Mormon elder Tull, by Lasseter the flawed hero, who then makes off with the heroine Jane. I wonder whether such a blatantly anti Mormon story line might prove too much for a modern PC publisher?

 

[49greg]

I had an uncle we would see once a year when we visited my mom's folks, he read a lot. His garage was filled with boxes and boxes of old paperbacks. About half the westerns were by Max Brand.

This was back in the fifties and early sixties. I never read Max Brand then, but recently got a kindle book with lots of his books all collected under one cover. So far I'm not impressed. But back then the Western section of book stores were full of his books.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I had an uncle we would see once a year when we visited my mom's folks, he read a lot. His garage was filled with boxes and boxes of old paperbacks. About half the westerns were by Max Brand.

This was back in the fifties and early sixties. I never read Max Brand then, but recently got a kindle book with lots of his books all collected under one cover. So far I'm not impressed. But back then the Western section of book stores were full of his books.

There's prolly a dozen Westerns worth the candle but theyre excellent.

HONDO, HOMBRE, VALDEZ IS COMING, THE SEARCHERS, THE UNFORGIVEN, LONESOME DOVE, THE SHOOTIST, SHANE, CENTENNIAL, THE BIG SKY, THE WAY WEST, THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES.