General Favorite western?

[CasketCaseZombie]

Anyone ever read the Lone Star series, my uncle loved them and kept trying to make me read them but at the age of 20 I was on a different hunt.

I don’t remember if I ever read any of these but looks familiar.
Read some about a character named Slocum that were pretty heavy on the sexual content. I think they may have actually been published by Playboy Press. I think I still have a couple of them in a box somewhere.

 

[kvr28]

I don’t remember if I ever read any of these but looks familiar.
Read some about a character named Slocum that were pretty heavy on the sexual content. I think they may have actually been published by Playboy Press. I think I still have a couple of them in a box somewhere.

That was my uncles big selling point, strong sexual content lol

 

[MountainMedic]

We had “The Zane Grey Library” that was hard bound editions of all of his novels. They’re early 1900s and kind of wordy compared to later authors, but some of them are pretty good. “Riders of the Purple Sage” is a classic and “The Lone Star Ranger” is good but kind of weird. The publisher actually took two of his novels that he had submitted and mashed them together into a single book. Some yard back some publisher actually split them back apart and reprinted them as the two separate books they were intended to be.

I've been to Zanes cabin remains on the Rogue River. Cool spot.

Zane Grey Cabin - Wikipedia

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[Revenant]

Tom Horn was pretty good if I remember correctly. Plus Linda Evans.

 

[MountainMedic]

Tom Horn was pretty good if I remember correctly. Plus Linda Evans.

Its not really the story of the actual Tom Horn, but its a decent movie on its own. Kind of like The Revenant, the real story is wild enough and can/should be told as it really was. Would love to see an accurate Horn movie, he was a shifty killing motherfucker.

 

[NiteProwleR]

Well that explains it, it's 3:10 to yuma, I'd be surprised if I ever post on a western thread again

Reminds me of my nephew, he's only a year beneath me. We went to go see the Proposition and this dumbass asks for 2 tickets to the Prospect. I'm standing there behind him holding back laughter and the ticket girl is dumbfounded trying to find the movie. "Yes, the Prospect we checked, it's on limited!" At that point I'm losing it trying to say the title myself while lmao.

 

[CasketCaseZombie]

Its not really the story of the actual Tom Horn, but its a decent movie on its own. Kind of like The Revenant, the real story is wild enough and can/should be told as it really was. Would love to see an accurate Horn movie, he was a shifty killing motherfucker.

Yep, I’ve often said this myself. Little to no doubt he killed that kid, and that was just the last of many people he sniped out of existence. He wasn’t any sort of gunfighter, he was a straight up killer. In any regular western treatment that paints him accurately he’d be the villain the evil ranchers hired to do their dirty work against the sodbusters. Still a fascinating character though.

 

[MountainMedic]

In any regular western treatment that paints him accurately he’d be the villain the evil ranchers hired to do their dirty work against the sodbusters.

Absolutely, he was a cold calculated killer with zero moral compass. Part of what set him apart was that he didn't brag and even spread disinformation about himself to muddy the water. He knew what he was doing wasn't even a gray area, it was murder. He had no qualms about it and knew if the truth came out he'd be lynched.

 

[MountainMedic]

McQueen could have really done that character justice too, irl he was closer to Horns mentality than the good guy Antihero characters he liked to play.