The Western: America's Great Myth

Seven Great Western Books for Boys

• True Grit, Charles Portis

• Shane, Jack Shaeffer

• Down the Long Hills, Louis L’Amour

• The Empty Land, Louis L’Amour

• Little Britches, Ralph Moody

• Six Years with the Texas Rangers, James B. Gillett

• Blood and Thunder: Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West, Hampton Sides