Title: The Western :
Authors: Folsom, James K.
Date: 1979
Publisher: Prentice-Hall,
Physical description: viii, 177 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: P
Abstract: Traces the purpose and significance of the cowboy and myth and examines the western as an established genre.
Contents: Davis, D. B. Ten-gallon hero.--Hutchinson, W. H. Virgins, villains, and varmints.--Dobie, J. F. Andy Adams, cowboy chronicler.--Mogen, D. Owen Wister's cowboy heroes.--Westbrook, M. The archetypal ethic of The Ox-bow incident.--Fisher, V. The novelist and his background.--Fisher, V. and Holmes, O. L. Fact or fiction, the blend of history and legend.--Morley, S. G. Cowboy and gaucho fiction.--Folsom, J. K. English westerns.--Etulain, R. W. The American literary West and its interpreters.
Notes: "Spectrum book."
Subject headings (LCSH): American fiction--History and criticism.; Fiction; Frontier and pioneer life in literature; West (U.S.)--In literature.; Western stories--History and criticism.