I've always loved watching a good western as well as reading the comics like Jonah Hex and Loveless but I've never actually checked out any of the novels. Does anybody know of any good ones? After some internet sleuthing I kept seeing a book called The Shootist popping up but unfortunately it's not available on kindle.
I never knew there was a book called
The Shootist. I've seen the film with John Wayne and Ron Howard. It was Wayne's final screen role. Lauren Bacall and Jimmy Stewart are also in it, so a pretty decent cast. It's worth seeing.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry was a decent western book, it was also made into a mini series. James Michener's
Centennial has some great western stuff in it. Even
Flashman and the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser has some good western type stuff as seen through the eyes of an Englishman. It's the 7th book of the series, but largely standalone. They're both fantasy, but Joe Abercrombie's
Red Country is a fantasy western as is R.S Belcher's
The Six-Gun Tarot. Of the two I'd probably go for Belcher, because while Abercrombie is great, the book is set in a secondary world, whereas
The Six-Gun Tarot takes place in a silver town in Nevada.