[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 489 KB, 1468x1800, Annex - Wayne, John (Chisum)_02.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
5217353 No.5217353 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any good western novels written by actual cowboys from the late 19th century?

>> No.5217356

IDK about novels, but there's some interesting Cowboy Poetry.

>> No.5217365

louis l'amour. represent north dakota!

granted he's early 20th but w/e

>> No.5217378

>My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue by Samuel Chamberlain

it's a memoir and it was the basis for Blood Meridian

>> No.5217380

>>5217353
Did cowboys even know how to write?

>> No.5217390

>>5217353
Zane Grey might be what you're looking for

>> No.5217392
File: 15 KB, 349x500, Black_Jack_Ketchum.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
5217392

>>5217365
Fun Fact:

Louis L'Amour wrote the screen play for "Blackjack Ketchum, Desperato", loosely based on the real life desperato Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum, to whom I share a distant relation.

Ketchum was a cowboy who started robbing trains after joining up with the Wild Bunch and The Hole in the Wall Gang.

After a botched robbery, Ketchum was shot and captured. He spent several months in prison and was sentenced to death by hanging. However, the hanging was botched, and after the bottom of the platform dropped out and the noose tightened, Ketchum was decapitated.

We have a wanted poster at my parents house of him. It's some sort of family heirloom or something. I remember my grandparents owning it before they died.