Stacey Lee's YA novel Under a Painted Sky showcases the danger and the beauty of life on the Oregon Trail for a Chinese-American girl and a runaway slave. After a tragic accident forces them to go on ...

EDUCATION BEFORE VERDUN — Arnold Zweig—Viking ($2.50). Eight years ago U. S. readers were mostly unaware that the late great German Army had been made up of human beings. To the few that read it, a ...

From True Grit to No Country for Old Men, novel adaptations have given the Western some of its greatest films, exploring the legend of the gunslinger and life on the American frontier. The history of ...

In the second half of the 19th century, the figure of the cowboy emerged as the defining feature of American Western literature. Publishers found success with dime Westerns, novels mythologizing the ...

The “Moby Dick” of Western novels, and the source material for one of the most famous television miniseries of all time, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic offers something for everyone.