Best Western Books

[Cowboy Up]

I am leaving for a 3 week trip this weekend, and have an 8 hour layover followed by a long flight. So...I am looking for a really good book to read. So if anyone knows some great western books they would recommend I would appreciate your suggestions.    <cowboy>

 

[chambero]

Anything by Terry C. Johnston.

 

[furinsilex]

or Louis Lamour

 

[STX108]

Bob Kleberg and the King Ranch: A Worldwide Sea of Grass

 

[LN]

Lonesome Dove or any of it's prequels/sequels and Into the West.

 

[ROMAX]

or Louis Lamour

loved reading his books when i was in school(about the only ones i wanted to read)

 

[r.n.reed]

My Life on the Range by John Clay and the Conrad Kohrs autobiography.

 

[CM Cattle]

or Louis Lamour

Louis Lamour is awesome.

 

[tlcattle]

or Louis Lamour

Louis Lamour is awesome.

gramps got me hooked on these when i was smaller. lonsome dove is good. Mike Flanagan has wrote some pretty good ones too.

 

[simtal]

Kenny's Shoes.  Not really western in the sense of the cowboys and indians but tells a cool story of Ken Monfort and how he came to be in the cattle feeding/packing industry.

 

[afhm]

Get some of the Western Horseman series of books.  I really like the Legends series. If you're not into horses then choose something else. I think they have one on famous ranches as well.

 

[TMJ Show Cattle]

Anything written by Zane Gray[Grey?]

 

[occ]

Louis Lamour, Lonesome Dove series and The Sacketts series,  All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.  Not a western, but a new release I am wanting to read, The Horse Soldiers, about 12 special forces members who went into Afghanistan on horseback just before the war officially started, fought the Taliban, even took over a village.  Sounds very interesting. 

 

[STX108]

Hank the Cowdog is amusing.

 

[Ruchian]

Louis L'Amour, Zane Grey, Clarence E. Mulford

 

[clifflem]

One of my favorite western authors is Elmer Kelton.  His stories are fiction based on Texas historical facts.  I have also read the entire series of Louis LaMour and Zane Gray. 

 

[common sense]

Spirit Horse by Alan S. Evens.  I just finished this book, it's new.  I really enjoyed this read.  It was very hard to put down.  I gave me some great historical insight into the wild mustangs and the native Americans.  I would highly recommend.