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	Western (genre) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Westerns, by definition, are set in the American West, almost always in the 19th century, generally between the Antebellum period and the turn of the century.
		Western fiction got its start in the "penny dreadfuls" and later the "dime novels" that first began to be published in the mid-nineteenth century.
		An offshoot of the western genre is the "post-apocalyptic" western, in which a future society, struggling to rebuild after a major catastrophe, is portrayed in a manner very similar to the 19th century frontier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_fiction (3074 words)

	Western fiction - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Western fiction is a genre of literature that is typically set in any of the American states west of the Mississippi River and between the years of approximately 1860 and 1900.
		The Western got its start in the "penny dreadfuls" and later the "dime novels" that first began to be published in the mid-nineteenth century.
		The western as a distinct genre began to emerge with the publication of The Virginian by Owen Wister in 1902.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Western_fiction (403 words)

	Western fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The western as a distinct genre in American Literature itself began to emerge with the publication of The Virginian by Owen Wister in 1902.
		In the 1940s several seminal westerns were published including The Ox-Bow Incident (1940) by Walter van Tilburg Clark, The Big Sky (1947) and (1949) by, and Shane (1949) by.
		Western authors have an organization that represents them called the, who present the annual Golden Spur Awards.
	oakpark.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Western_fiction (494 words)

	Writing Western Fiction by Fredrick Boling \| Western Writing \| ReadTheWest.com American Western Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A cloud passed over the moon and he merged into the general shadow and I could not see him and the cloud passed on and the road was a plain thin ribbon to the horizon and he was gone.
		After all, novels and short fiction are stories, not exercises in putting together scenes, no matter how well written, that don’t tell a story from the beginning of the work to the end.
		Writing Western fiction is no different from writing any other genre of fiction, except with one difference.
	www.readthewest.com /westernwriting.html (3666 words)

	Western fiction -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Western got its start in the " (A melodramatic paperback novel) penny dreadfuls" and later the " (A melodramatic paperback novel) dime novels" that first began to be published in the mid-nineteenth century.
		The western as a distinct genre in American Literature itself began to emerge with the publication of (Click link for more info and facts about The Virginian) The Virginian by (United States writer (1860-1938)) Owen Wister in 1902.
		The burnout of the (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American public on television westerns in the late 1960s seemed to have an affect on the literature as well, and interest in western literature began to wane.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/we/western_fiction.htm (510 words)

	Read about Western fiction at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Western fiction and learn about Western fiction here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Western fiction is a genre of literature that is typically set in any of the
		American public on television westerns in the late 1960s seemed to have an affect on the literature as well, and interest in western literature began to wane.
		Louis L'Amour began to catch hold of most western readers and he has tended to dominate the western reader lists ever since.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Western_fiction (419 words)

	Western Fiction Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		These have been claimed for the 'premise' from which westerns were developed and from which all subsequent westerns have emerged.
		Western movies, usually filmed in desolate corners of California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Colorado or Wyoming, often made the landscape not just a vivid backdrop but a character in the movie.
		It is clear that the Western is not dead, but have moved smoothly from the first color TV series The Cisco Kid, through the half hour, shoot-um-ups, "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp", Have Gun - Will Travel, " of the 1950’s.
	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Western_fiction (3221 words)

	Western Fiction Market is Going Strong
		On top of that, Kevin Costner's Western film Open Range became a critical success this year, and other movies, including the Ron Howard-directed The Missing and the epic The Alamo, are in the chute.
		The nonprofit Western Writers of America was incorporated in 1953 to promote and honor Western literature.
		The Western's also strong at Kensington Publishing Corp., which is bringing out two new novels by Johnstone, whom USA Today has called "American's greatest living western writer." Johnstone's Ambush of the Mountain Man comes out in December, followed by Preacher's Justice in January.
	www.writenews.com /2003/120503_western_fiction.htm (316 words)

	Ernest Haycox and Western Fiction-Under Western Skies: Ernest Haycox and the West in Fiction and Film (University of ...
		Given the stylization of this action-adventure genre, there was little room for nuance or complication in the early Westerns; and certainly its representations of women, Native Americans, and any non-Anglo Westerner are deeply problematic.
		He is credited, for instance, with the introduction of the historical Western, a kind of hybrid of historical fiction and action-adventure story that gives his work a deepened sense of realism.
		Moreover, Haycox complicated the conventional plot structure of the Western by introducing more prominent women characters, an innovation which lent itself to more subtle and less allegorical depictions of women and which gave to the genre an element of interior conflict largely absent in the conventional Western.
	libweb.uoregon.edu /speccoll/exhibits/haycox/western.html (391 words)

	Western Regional Fiction Presentation
		Westerns are both stylized yarns and enduring human reflections.
		Gerald Haslam: Jack Schaefer says that most Western stories are "escape literature" and that many stories are "code Westerns." Haslam proposes Western fiction established the American short story tradition.
		Western fictions arose to replace formulaic sentimental texts, to recognize oral tradition (i.e.
	www.bsu.edu /web/jpramsay/wrfpre.htm (841 words)

	FictionPress.Com Profile : MiAmore05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Weston lived his life through the cards...until he found the Queen of Hearts.
		Fiction » Western - Fiction Rated: T - English - Action/Adventure/Romance - Chapters: 6 - Words: 5092 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 9-21-05 - Published: 12-28-04
		Fiction » Western - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4598 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-26-04 - Published: 12-26-04
	www.fictionpress.com /profile.php?userid=450579 (171 words)

	Intersections: Innocence to Deviance: The Fetishisation of Japanese Women in Western Fiction, 1890s-1990s
		An extension of the contemporaneous Western fascination with the aesthetics of Japonaiserie (a term coined by Baudelaire in 1861), this exotic Japan romance genre was pioneered by French writer Louis Marie Julien Viaud (1850-1923), otherwise known as Pierre Loti.
		Even as Chinese women had became sinister and treacherous in Western novels in the 1920s and 1930s through such characters as Fah Lo Suee, daughter of Sax Rohmer's infamous Fu Manchu,[52] many of the characteristics that Western fiction previously ascribed only to Japanese men became associated with the Japanese woman.
		A fictional member of the Japanese Red Army, famous for their actual terrorist activities in the late 1960s and onwards, Reiko's crimes in Japan allegedly include the killing of two policemen and fourteen of her followers, including her own brother, and the hijacking of a Japan Airlines flight to North Korea.
	wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au /intersections/issue7/morris.html (6158 words)

	List Of Western Fiction Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Moulin of the University of Western Ontario's Interdisciplinary...
		all of the so-called trash fiction and novels...
		This is a list of some notable authors in the western fiction genre.
	www.wikiverse.org /list-of-western-fiction-authors (176 words)

	FictionPress.Com Profile : Donna Raspberry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fiction » Western - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1145 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-20-04 - Published: 3-20-04
		The story of 102 year old Jims life in the old West and the origin of the mysterious gold chain and ring worn around his neck.
		Fiction » Western - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4560 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-20-04 - Published: 3-20-04
	www.fictionpress.com /~donnaraspberry (151 words)

	Science Fiction & Fantasy
		These years saw Sturgeon writing mystery, western, science fiction and fantasy stories, all of which were imbued with his distinctive "touch of strange."
		Sturgeon stood out from his genre contemporaries both for the refinement of his prose and the heavy-hitting emotional punch of his tales.
		This ongoing series forms a keystone not only in the edifice of science fiction, but in that of 20th-century literature as a whole.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/18/AR2005081801320.html (822 words)

	A Chance to Pick Best Of Western Fiction / The Chronicle 100 seeks nominations
		For purposes of this poll, the Western United States will be defined as the 13 states at least partly west of the Rockies: California, Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming.
		Berriault's magnificent story collection ``Women in Their Beds'' won the National Book Critics' Circle award for fiction in 1997; each of its stories is as much a class in the art of fiction as any she taught during her years as a member of the San Francisco State University creative writing faculty.
		Berriault numbered among the very few fiction writers who have practiced the arts of narration and dialogue with equal ease.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/07/29/DD87834.DTL&type=books (999 words)

	Spur Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1953, when the awards were established by WWA, western fiction was a staple of American publishing.
		At the time awards were given to the best western novel, best historical novel, best juvenile, and best short story.
		Today, Spurs are offered for the best western novel (short novel), best novel of the west (long novel), best original paperback novel, best short story, best short nonfiction.
	www.westernwriters.org /spur_awards.htm (302 words)

	Reading Lists - Best of the West: Western Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hangman Oscar Stone is a master executioner, who prides himself on his careful and exacting work, until a sudden moment of realization and devastating truth forces him to come to terms with himself and his profession.
		A fictional chronicle centered on the fall of the Alamo provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas.
		After the murder of his wife Josie, Texas Ranger Rusty Shannon heads out on the revenge trail, but he soon finds he is tracking the wrong man, in a novel chronicling the exploits and adventures of the Texas Rangers in the Old West.
	www.mesalibrary.org /read_next/westerns.htm (678 words)

	Browsing the inventory of Pulp Fiction by catalog: Western Fiction
		Wraps are lightly rubbed at the corners and edges.
		Fiction, Westerns, Modern Westerns, Cattle Wars, Shortgrass Song.
		Wraps are quite rubbed and creased at the corners and edges.
	www.biblio.com /browse_books/catalog/139982/370.html (1878 words)

	Western Fiction Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Find western fiction - Your relevant result is a click away!
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	www.greatartworks.com /encyclopedia/Western_fiction (3221 words)

	SAPL: Focus Fiction - Texas Fiction - Westerns
		Alone on her ranch during the Civil War, Elizabeth Hamilton has signed over hundreds of cows to the bank and now must hold on until her husband returns.
		After learning the secret of a lost Spanish gold train, David Travis and a murdered prospector's daughter set out to find the gold, only to be confronted by the prospector's killers.
		A legendary Texas cattle empire, Grass Kingdom is also a house divided by ambition and torn by its families' fierce desire to dominate the country's cattle business -- and to ruthlessly crush any who get in their way.
	www.sanantonio.gov /library/fiction/fic_TX-Western.asp (600 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Genres: Western: Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Randisi, Robert J. - Western author and editor discusses his latest anthology TIN STAR and talks about his writing career in the Western genre.
		Rogers, Lincoln - Active member of the Western Writers of America and author of cowboy poetry, western short fiction and western journalism.
		Swarthout, Glen - Twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction by his publishers and won a number of other awards for his novels, including a couple of Spurs and a Wrangler, as well as the Western Writers award for Lifetime Achievement.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/Genres/Western/Authors (1117 words)

	Home Page of Western Fiction Writer and Author DJ Bishop
		Over the years, western writer and author DJ Bishop has been called many things, among them, western author, western writer, and fiction writer.
		He's a member of Western Writers of America, home of the prestigious SpurAward, and The Northwest Writers Club of Lake Worth, he is linked to American Western Magazine, Cowboy.com, The American West, Avalon Books, and True West Magazine.
		Western Author DJ Bishop creates living, breathing characters, then adds authentic western dialogue and enough action and excitement to keep a reader turning the pages.
	authordjbishop.com (436 words)

	Spur Award History
		Juvenile Fiction: Dust of the Earth by Vera
		Western Novel: Journal of the Gun Years by
		Western Novel: Nickajack by Robert J. Conley (Doubleday)
	www.westernwriters.org /spur_award_history.htm (553 words)

	Authors of Western Fiction Take Advantage of Unique Online Site
		WritersWest.com is an independent consignment bookstore where the books come from the western writers, and not distributors.
		The variety is vast, and the book selection covers all western genres, as well as children's books and poetry.
		Along with the recognized names are traditional action westerns by Robert J. Thomas and Eugene C. Vories, contemporary western novels by L. Bailey, and essays, cowboy poetry and ranching tales from Echo Roy, Ken Overcast, Mike Logan and more.
	www.pressbox.co.uk /Detailed/21201.html (476 words)

	Amazon.com Books: New & used textbooks, biographies, children's books, science fiction, cookbooks & more (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Featuring the return of heavy-hitters like James Patterson, Frank McCourt, and Cornelia Funke, and including fantastic new releases in fiction, nonfiction, and books for children and teens, our Fall New Releases Store is your resource for the hottest books of the season.
		Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the...
		Check out a fun way for students and inquisitive minds to learn anatomy and view over 450 detailed drawings of the human body.
	Amazon.com /books (598 words)

	Saint's Fire - A historical western fiction covering a tenderfoot's trek from Virginia to the badlands of gold ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Saint's Fire - A historical western fiction covering a tenderfoot's trek from Virginia to the badlands of gold prospecting, to badder Texas cattle country, and on to "Sin Town" San Fran.
		It seems as if fate has dictated that this young man with the impossible mission meet all the important personages of the places in which he searches.
		Thus the peaceful lad with sterling manners to match the silver service he had been raised on, is forced to fight to live - and finally kill, and kill again.
	www.thebookden.com /saintsfire1.html (999 words)

	Western Fiction at 'Readers of the Purple Sage'
		Western Fiction at 'Readers of the Purple Sage'
		Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, the O.K. Corral, this is most certainly a Western tale; but it is also a deeply-affecting love story.
		A band of courageous Texas Rangers pursue escaped Nazi prisoners-of-war across the Southwestern Texas desert in 1944.
	www.genordell.com /stores/western/fiction.htm (459 words)

	A Directory of Western Authors, Writers, and Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		People all around the world like to read books that help them identify with the Indian fighters on the frontier, the homesteader on his farm, the cowboy, or the gunslinger in the Old West.
		Included are books about American history, the Old West, and the western frontier, as well as contemporary western fiction novels.
		In this directory, we use a broad definition of "western," including contemporary stories, historical fiction and even early American literature -- as long as it has the flavor of the West.
	www.westernauthors.com (713 words)

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