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Drift Fence is a 1933 Western novel by Zane Grey set in Arizona's Tonto Rim country. Its story concerns an eastern rancher's son drawn into disputes over cattle, land, and a long fence intended to control livestock movement across the range. The novel uses the conflict surrounding the fence to portr...

Utah Blaine is a western novel written by Louis L'Amour and originally published in 1954. The narrative follows the protagonist, Utah Blaine, a gunfighter who has recently been released from prison after serving time for a crime. Upon his release, he intervenes to help a community of ranchers defend...

Matagorda is a Western novel written by Louis L'Amour and published in 1967. The story is set in the post-Civil War era along the coastal plains of Matagorda County, Texas, focusing on protagonist Tap Duvarney. After settling in the region to establish a ranch, Duvarney becomes embroiled in a violen...

The Sheepman is a 1958 American Western comedy directed by George Marshall and starring Glenn Ford as Jason Sweet. Sweet wins a flock of sheep in a poker game and takes them into cattle country, where local ranchers challenge his presence and provoke a range conflict. Shirley MacLaine plays Dell Pay...

Guns of the Timberlands is a Western novel by Louis L'Amour, published in 1955. Its protagonist, Clay Bell, has built the B-Bar ranch in the Deep Creek Range, but his land is threatened when speculator Jud Devitt seeks timber for railroad ties and uses political and commercial allies to advance the...

Gunsights is a Western novel by American writer Elmore Leonard, published in 1979. Set in the American Southwest, it presents a conflict between a frontier scout and a former friend associated with a corrupt mining company, combining Leonard's interest in violence, shifting loyalties, and the pressu...

Silver Canyon is a Western novel by Louis L'Amour, first published in hardback in 1956. The story is set in the Utah Territory in 1881 and follows Matt Brennan, a rider and gunfighter who arrives in Hattan's Point and becomes involved with the local ranching community. The novel combines frontier tr...

Galloway is a Western novel by Louis L’Amour centered on the Sackett family. The story follows the brothers Galloway and Flagan Sackett as they seek a place to establish themselves in the American frontier, while facing violence, family conflict, and the hazards of an unsettled region. The book belo...

Ramrod is a Western novel by Luke Short, first published in 1943, and the source for a 1947 American film directed by André de Toth. Its central conflict involves Connie, a strong-willed woman managing a ranch, and Dave Nash, the ranch foreman whom she recruits during a range war. The novel is assoc...

Ride the Man Down is a 1950 Western novel by Luke Short that explores the violent Arizona range wars involving competing cattle barons.

Radigan is a Western novel by Louis L’Amour, published in 1958. The story centers on a New Mexico rancher whose land and independence are threatened by an organized attempt to take control of his range. It uses familiar Western themes including disputed property, violence, self-reliance, and conflic...

To the Last Man is a Western novel by Zane Grey, published in 1921. It is a fictionalized account of the Pleasant Valley War, a late-nineteenth-century feud between families and factions in Arizona. The narrative focuses on the effects of inherited conflict, retaliation, loyalty, and the difficulty...

The Drift Fence is a Western novel by Zane Grey. Its story centers on a young Easterner who travels to Arizona and attempts to establish a ranch, placing him in conflict with cattlemen who seek to control access to the range. The novel belongs to Grey's frontier fiction, which commonly combines adve...

Published in 1936, Knights of the Range is a Zane Grey Western notable for its romanticized portrayal of heroic cowboys fighting corrupt ranchers.

Raiders of Spanish Peaks is a western novel by Zane Grey, published in 1938. Set near Colorado’s Spanish Peaks and the Sangre de Cristo foothills, it follows a rancher drawn into a prolonged conflict with an outlaw group. The novel uses the western conventions of frontier violence, ranching, pursuit...

Zane Grey's western novel published posthumously in 1941, two years after his death, following a cowboy's quest for justice amid range rivalry in New Mexico Territory.

Barren Land Showdown is a classic Western novel distinguished by its focused narrative on bitter conflicts over water rights and cattle grazing in a harsh desert landscape.