Best Texas Frontier
Old Yeller is a 1957 American frontier drama directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney. Based on the 1956 novel by Fred Gipson, the film follows a teenage boy named Travis and the stray yellow dog he initially dislikes but grows to love in post-Civil War Texas. The story explores them...
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...
After the Bugles is a historical Western novel by Elmer Kelton and the first volume of the Buckalew Family series. The story opens in Texas after the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836, when the defeat of Santa Anna has ended the central fighting of the Texas Revolution. It follows Joshua Buckalew and th...
West of the Pecos is a Western novel by Zane Grey, published in 1937. The story is set against the American frontier and follows characters whose journey brings them into contact with Texas ranch life, lawlessness, and changing social roles. The novel is associated with Grey's later Western fiction...
