On the range with you. I have read two westerns so far this month. Those are: A Man Called Trent by Louis L' Amour; and, Desert Gold by Zane Grey. These are the first westerns I have ever read. Thank you for the challenge and encouragement to read westerns.
Greetings from Spain! I have discovered your channel recently and i am enjoying your videos a lot. You are so fun and entertaining, and you are really revitalizing my interest in reading! So thank you so much for your work and keep up the good stuff. P. S. I am reading Flint by Louis L'amour and so far it is very good, i have never read a western novel before but maybe i will read more on June on the Range!
I have the first edition of "Marvels", that I got in 1995. This is the realism that Stan Lee wanted when he and Jack Kirby created the "Fantastic Four". The scripting, dialogue and characterisation are spot-on, and the layouts in your face, remind me of Jack Kirby, but as you say, are actually as we'd see them if there really were superheroes.
Yeeeeee-haw! I must say, I'm having a rip-roaring' time so far with June on the Range. I think you struck pure gold with this event. I just hope I can keep up with the herd!
I'm almost finished reading "Guns of the Timberland" by Louis L'Amour. I never thought I'd be reading Westerns, but here I am. I have a Zane Grey novel next. This is great fun after suffering through George Eliot's "Middlemarch" in May. I love Dickens, Austen, Trollope, and Hardy, but Eliot and I will never "jive." I think I'll also need to watch "Tombstone" again tonight while I sew. Thanks for making June so much fun!
Trevanian wrote "The Eiger Sanction" which the movie of the same name starring Clint Eastwood is based. I have the book "Incident at Twenty-Mile" which I haven't read yet. I forgot that it is a Western, so I should read it this month.
I was intrigued by the name Trevanian, he wrote the Eiger Sanction, interesting. I'm reading The Unforgiven now !! (just finished Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok - Richard Matheson).
Exciting list Michael! For June on the Range I'll be reading Lonesome Dove, re-reading No Country for Old Men, finishing My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue, and hopefully reading some very short pulp western. Was only going to do Lonesome Dove but got inspired by your "Read four novels," message in the last video haha.
I never really read any Marvel western series other then when they would guest star in some kind of time travel story. Never found any of their books in dollar bins unlike DC stuff. That is the big reason why. Jonah Hex, Batlash, and Tomahawk from DC I am more familiar with. In my revised June tbr I selected the thinnest of the 3 L'amour books rescued from going to recycling recently. Haven't gotten far in it with it being the final week of the regular school year and spent so much home time last week on King & Straub's 'The Talisman' I've been devoting home reading time to comics like Groo and Spider-Man.
That Lone Ranger Omnibus is gold. Or would that be silver? Anyway... I always liked Rawhide Kid, but my favorite western comics were Night Rider (Ghost Rider) and Kid Colt.
Incident at Twenty-Mile -- yay! I will go waaaaaaay out on a limb and say that will be this year's Lonesome Dove for you. Although now I've probably jinxed it. Yee-haw!
I'm reading Lonesome Dove and Law of the Gun (a short story collection, got it for 25 cents at the used bookstore so may as well), then also Flint by Louis L'amour, as well as a handful of some
Howard Hopkins also wrote 33 original westerns in hardcover and trade paperback under the name Lance Howard (his middle and first names reversed). Who knows how many more there would have been, had he not sadly passed away at the crazy young age of 50. I hope you enjoy that Lone Ranger novella as much as I did. 😊
Very interesting list. I'm reading Doc by Mary Doria Russell, and The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud (which takes place on Mars, but it feels like a western).
Yay Lone Ranger books. I have a few. Fun reading. Not heard of that particular title. Got that Rawhide Kid Essentials. Love the old westerns.too bad that was the only western Essentials Marvel published. Fortunately DC did a Jonah Hex showcase too. All good reading.
Nice hat! You wear it well. I think Im going to start off with Brannigan's Land by William W. Johnstone. Louis L'Amour has some good books too, so I think I'll grab one of those.
Reading Hell's Forty Acres by Gordon Shirreffs. It is a pretty gritty western about a prospector defending his claim and the woman he loves. (Even though he can't really trust her.) I've read two books by Alan Le May in my life The Searchers and a collection of short stories. The Searchers is great and probably better than even the classic movie. The collection not so much. Most of the stories were written for Collier's magazine which insisted that all stories have some romance element. Collier's had a formula for fiction that wasn't that great. I do remember the collection had one good story called The Wolfer which I liked.
My first June on the Range book is Quincannon by Bill Pronzoni. I'm almost done. It's good. A Western detective story. 🙂 I'll do L'Amour's Guns of the Timberlands next.
Currently reading l Lamour’s The quick and the dead…. He doesn’t waste much time getting on with his stories.. enjoying it… but it is exactly what you expect… no surprises.. was Roger scalped? I have that raw hide k graphic…
Are you going to make a video about the Three Impostors by Arthur Machen? I have been eagerly waiting for the review, but I don't know if you are going to review all the books for Roger's Cheap Old Book Club? I started reading Lonesome Dove last week for June on the Range, and I am loving it so much that I am almost finished.
Did you ever read the Kid Colt Outlaw comics? I remember reading a couple when I was a kid (early '80s), haven't seen him since. Jonah Hex seems to be the only modern day comic book Western
My three friends by Louis Lamour I have three friends, three faithful friends, more faithful could not be- and every night, by the dim firelight, they come to sit with me. the first of these is tall and thin with hollow cheeks, and a toothless grin, a ghastly tare, and scraggly hair, and an ugly lump for a chin. the second of these is short and fat with beady eyes, like a starving rat- he was soaked in sin to his oily skin, and verminous, at that the crouching one is of ape-like plan, formed like a beast that resembled man: a freakish thing, with arms a-swing, and he was the third of that gruesome clan. the first I stabbed with a Chinese knife, and left on the white beach sand, with his ghastly stare, and blood-soaked hair, and an out-flung, claw-like hand; the fat one stole a crumbling crust, that he wolfed in his swinish way- so i left him there, with eyes a-glare, and his head cut of half-way. we fought to kill, the brute and i, that the one that lived might eat, so i killed him too, and made a stew, and dined on human meat. and so these three come to visit me, when without the night winds howl- the one with the leer, the one with a sneer, and and one with a brutish scowl; their lips are dumb, but the three dead come and cough by the hollow great- the man that i stabbed, the man that i cut, and the gruesome thing that i ate. their lips are sealed, with blood congealed, but they will not let me be, and so they haunt, grim, ghastly, and gaunt, till death shall set me free. i have three friends, three faithful friends, more faithful could not be- and every night, by the dim firelight, they come to sit with me.
The Searchers was a great movie. I HATED The Unforgiven,(the old one with Burt Lancaster, I see.) The cast, considerable as it was, could not save it. The book must be better. (Nice outfit. I like the colors. )
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Roger needs a cowboy hat, too. Maybe with an arrow through it.
HA!
Yeah Roger the Lone Ranger!
On the range with you. I have read two westerns so far this month. Those are: A Man Called Trent by Louis L' Amour; and, Desert Gold by Zane Grey. These are the first westerns I have ever read. Thank you for the challenge and encouragement to read westerns.
Sartorial elegance personified dear chap
Ha! Thanks!
Greetings from Spain! I have discovered your channel recently and i am enjoying your videos a lot. You are so fun and entertaining, and you are really revitalizing my interest in reading! So thank you so much for your work and keep up the good stuff. P. S. I am reading Flint by Louis L'amour and so far it is very good, i have never read a western novel before but maybe i will read more on June on the Range!
I have the first edition of "Marvels", that I got in 1995. This is the realism that Stan Lee wanted when he and Jack Kirby created the "Fantastic Four". The scripting, dialogue and characterisation are spot-on, and the layouts in your face, remind me of Jack Kirby, but as you say, are actually as we'd see them if there really were superheroes.
Oooo, excited to see how Arrow In the Dust is! I didn’t know Robert E. Howard wrote westerns!
He wrote some good ones!
Lots of classicy western shooty shoot books here! Looks like it'll be a fun month.
Yes, many Shooty Shoots!
My TBR includes Lonesome Dove, and The Lone Star Ranger for June on the range. I’ll add more if I manage to finish those.
Awesome video and hat!
Thanks!
The Outlaw Kid was their top seller despite the stories being simplistic, outselling all the Marvel westerns
Very nice list. I haven’t read any western books, but I have read western comic books and viewed many western motion pictures.
Yeeeeee-haw! I must say, I'm having a rip-roaring' time so far with June on the Range. I think you struck pure gold with this event. I just hope I can keep up with the herd!
I’m really glad you are enjoying it!
Good to see you in this wonderful video
My TBR is
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
The Lone Star Ranger
The Last Chance Mine Mystery
The Tall Stranger
And tongue in cheek
Ross Poldark
Poldark crossed my mind too😊. He would work for Jane Austen July and the War in July readathons as well.
My thoughts exactly
I've already read my first June on the Range novel: The Californios by Louis L'Amore. Great book......
Excellent!
Thanks for this TBR and ultimatly the suggestions, I am working my way through DOC and will then move onto either a Grey book or a L'mour?
I'm almost finished reading "Guns of the Timberland" by Louis L'Amour. I never thought I'd be reading Westerns, but here I am. I have a Zane Grey novel next. This is great fun after suffering through George Eliot's "Middlemarch" in May. I love Dickens, Austen, Trollope, and Hardy, but Eliot and I will never "jive." I think I'll also need to watch "Tombstone" again tonight while I sew. Thanks for making June so much fun!
Thanks for joining us on The Range!
Trevanian wrote "The Eiger Sanction" which the movie of the same name starring Clint Eastwood is based. I have the book "Incident at Twenty-Mile" which I haven't read yet. I forgot that it is a Western, so I should read it this month.
I was intrigued by the name Trevanian, he wrote the Eiger Sanction, interesting. I'm reading The Unforgiven now !! (just finished Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok - Richard Matheson).
Exciting list Michael! For June on the Range I'll be reading Lonesome Dove, re-reading No Country for Old Men, finishing My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue, and hopefully reading some very short pulp western. Was only going to do Lonesome Dove but got inspired by your "Read four novels," message in the last video haha.
I never really read any Marvel western series other then when they would guest star in some kind of time travel story. Never found any of their books in dollar bins unlike DC stuff. That is the big reason why.
Jonah Hex, Batlash, and Tomahawk from DC I am more familiar with.
In my revised June tbr I selected the thinnest of the 3 L'amour books rescued from going to recycling recently. Haven't gotten far in it with it being the final week of the regular school year and spent so much home time last week on King & Straub's 'The Talisman' I've been devoting home reading time to comics like Groo and Spider-Man.
That Lone Ranger Omnibus is gold. Or would that be silver? Anyway... I always liked Rawhide Kid, but my favorite western comics were Night Rider (Ghost Rider) and Kid Colt.
Incident at Twenty-Mile -- yay! I will go waaaaaaay out on a limb and say that will be this year's Lonesome Dove for you. Although now I've probably jinxed it. Yee-haw!
Okay, now I’m really looking forward to reading it!
I'm reading Lonesome Dove and Law of the Gun (a short story collection, got it for 25 cents at the used bookstore so may as well), then also Flint by Louis L'amour, as well as a handful of some
I'm going with The Berrybender Narrative by Larry McMurty. Four books, perfect for June on the range.
Howard Hopkins also wrote 33 original westerns in hardcover and trade paperback under the name Lance Howard (his middle and first names reversed). Who knows how many more there would have been, had he not sadly passed away at the crazy young age of 50. I hope you enjoy that Lone Ranger novella as much as I did. 😊
I’m sure I will.
Very interesting list. I'm reading Doc by Mary Doria Russell, and The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud (which takes place on Mars, but it feels like a western).
Yay Lone Ranger books. I have a few. Fun reading. Not heard of that particular title. Got that Rawhide Kid Essentials. Love the old westerns.too bad that was the only western Essentials Marvel published. Fortunately DC did a Jonah Hex showcase too. All good reading.
I’m reading “The Devoured and the Dead: A Splatter Western” by Kristopher Rufty
I'm reading some more of the Edge books by George Gillman and a few of the Dollar Western series. Are you a fan of either!
I read the first Edge book and really liked it. I have most of them.
11 days in a row?! Pyramid work is grueling!
Nice hat! You wear it well. I think Im going to start off with Brannigan's Land by William W. Johnstone. Louis L'Amour has some good books too, so I think I'll grab one of those.
I’ve ordered The Unforgiven from the library. I loved the movie. 11 days in a row 😵💫
Reading Hell's Forty Acres by Gordon Shirreffs. It is a pretty gritty western about a prospector defending his claim and the woman he loves. (Even though he can't really trust her.)
I've read two books by Alan Le May in my life The Searchers and a collection of short stories. The Searchers is great and probably better than even the classic movie. The collection not so much. Most of the stories were written for Collier's magazine which insisted that all stories have some romance element. Collier's had a formula for fiction that wasn't that great. I do remember the collection had one good story called The Wolfer which I liked.
If I ever read his short stories I will keep this in mind.
I plan to read at least two of Robert E Howard's western stories this year. I have the Dell best of two volume set. Any recommendations?
🤠
My first June on the Range book is Quincannon by Bill Pronzoni. I'm almost done. It's good. A Western detective story. 🙂
I'll do L'Amour's Guns of the Timberlands next.
Currently reading l Lamour’s The quick and the dead…. He doesn’t waste much time getting on with his stories.. enjoying it… but it is exactly what you expect… no surprises.. was Roger scalped? I have that raw hide k graphic…
Roger won’t let me peek under his bandages so I don’t know.
Finished THE OUTRIDER by Luke Short
Are you going to make a video about the Three Impostors by Arthur Machen? I have been eagerly waiting for the review, but I don't know if you are going to review all the books for Roger's Cheap Old Book Club? I started reading Lonesome Dove last week for June on the Range, and I am loving it so much that I am almost finished.
Yes, The Three Imposters video is late. It’s coming next week.
The greatest Western comic is ‘Missionary Man’ a violent gritty early-nineties western comic from the UK. Just saying 🤷🏻♂️
I’ll have to check that one out!
Did you ever read the Kid Colt Outlaw comics? I remember reading a couple when I was a kid (early '80s), haven't seen him since. Jonah Hex seems to be the only modern day comic book Western
I must have at some point.
My three friends by Louis Lamour
I have three friends, three faithful friends,
more faithful could not be-
and every night, by the dim firelight,
they come to sit with me.
the first of these is tall and thin
with hollow cheeks, and a toothless grin,
a ghastly tare, and scraggly hair,
and an ugly lump for a chin.
the second of these is short and fat
with beady eyes, like a starving rat-
he was soaked in sin to his oily skin,
and verminous, at that
the crouching one is of ape-like plan,
formed like a beast that resembled man:
a freakish thing, with arms a-swing,
and he was the third of that gruesome clan.
the first I stabbed with a Chinese knife,
and left on the white beach sand,
with his ghastly stare, and blood-soaked hair,
and an out-flung, claw-like hand;
the fat one stole a crumbling crust,
that he wolfed in his swinish way-
so i left him there, with eyes a-glare,
and his head cut of half-way.
we fought to kill, the brute and i,
that the one that lived might eat,
so i killed him too, and made a stew,
and dined on human meat.
and so these three come to visit me,
when without the night winds howl-
the one with the leer, the one with a sneer,
and and one with a brutish scowl;
their lips are dumb, but the three dead come
and cough by the hollow great-
the man that i stabbed, the man that i cut,
and the gruesome thing that i ate.
their lips are sealed, with blood congealed,
but they will not let me be,
and so they haunt, grim, ghastly, and gaunt,
till death shall set me free.
i have three friends, three faithful friends,
more faithful could not be-
and every night, by the dim firelight,
they come to sit with me.
Wow!
The Searchers was a great movie. I HATED The Unforgiven,(the old one with Burt Lancaster, I see.) The cast, considerable as it was, could not save it. The book must be better.
(Nice outfit. I like the colors. )