James Reasoner’s latest is a fine addition to the resurgence of the Western
There is no genre more American than the Western. It is easy, given the Western’s omnipresence on TV, in movies, documentaries, visual arts, music, comic books and rodeos, to forget that the genre began – and continues to thrive despite cultural pressure – as a literary form. The release of James Reasoner’s latest, Arizona Bounty, provides a fine addition to a literary tradition that began in the 1860s and appears to be having something of a moment–a fact recently acknowledged in contemporary publishing ...
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