Something without profanity, etc. Old school.

Recommendations?

You can start with Elmore Leonard's Hombre and Valdez is Coming. Yes, these were made into films, and even if you've seen them, and even as good as the movies are, you will still love the books. Hombre, especially, is so well written.

The Appaloosa series by Robert B. Parker (author of the Spenser novels) was pretty good.

My favorite two are "The Virginian" by Owen Wister and "Riders of the Purple Sage" by Zane Gray.

Both are well over 100 years old and classics which I re-read every few years.

I particularly enjoy Louis L'Amour's novels. My favorite is Conagher, which was made into a TV movie with Sam Elliott as the title character.

Lonesome Dove is amazing.. epic even.

Harry Combs has done some fine western novels. I particularly enjoyed reading Brules The Scout was also a good read. Haven't read either in a long time but I don't recall profanity being pervasive in either one. He writes in great detail and sweeping epics of the likes of Lonesome Dove.

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Originally posted by AUTiger89:
I particularly enjoy Louis L'Amour's novels. My favorite is Conagher, which was made into a TV movie with Sam Elliott as the title character.

I believe I have read every Louis L’Amour. I know I still own at least half of them. My mother probably has any I don’t.

That would be my suggestion as well. He just “takes you there”.

ANYTHING by Louis L'Amour

Jack Schafer’s “Monte Walsh,” he also wrote “Shane.”

Call it a modern Western if you like, but McCarthy’s “All the Pretty Horses,” in fact all 3 books of The Border Trilogy are great takes on the Western.

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Jack Schafer’s “Monte Walsh,” he also wrote “Shane.”

Monte Walsh has been made into a movie twice, I believe. My favorite version is with Tom Selleck as Walsh.

The Sacketts.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
You can start with Elmore Leonard's Hombre and Valdez is Coming. Yes, these were made into films, and even if you've seen them, and even as good as the movies are, you will still love the books. Hombre, especially, is so well written.

Thanks for the recommendations. Bought them tonight.

True Grit by Charles Portis.
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger.

Empire of The Summer Moon-S.C. Gwynne. I don't recall if any F-bombs, lots of racisms though, apparently

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Empire of The Summer Moon

That's non-fiction

Whoops

"If you like your definitions tight and precise, the ‘non-fiction novel’ is what nightmares are made of: a contradiction which cannot exist."

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Empire of The Summer Moon

That's non-fiction

Yep. Taylor Sheridan is going to use it for a future project. From Google:

"Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan is set to adapt Empire of the Summer Moon for his next project. The adaptation will be based on the historical book Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History. It is not yet known whether the Empire of the Summer Moon adaptation will take the form of a film or a TV series."

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ANYTHING by Louis L'Amour

Same

Anything by Louis L'Amour, or Zane Grey. I have all of the Louis L'Amour books, and a handful of Zane Grey books that my grandfather bought.