The drifters Art Croft and Gil Carter get caught up in the hanging of three innocent men by a mob suspecting them of being thieves in a novel in this genre by Walter Van Tilburg Clark titled The Ox-Bow Incident.
The protagonist of a novel in this genre entertains fellow passengers on a stalled train by describing frogs being hunted en masse to supply restaurants with legs. The compassionate hero Winnetou stars in several popular German-language novels in this genre written by Karl May. A novel in this genre ends with the protagonists toppling a giant boulder to thwart several polygamous Mormons in hot pursuit. The drifters Art Croft and Gil Carter get caught up in the hanging of three innocent men by a mob suspecting them of being thieves in a novel in this genre by Walter Van Tilburg Clark titled The Ox-Bow Incident. In honor of the author of the first major novel in this genre, The Virginian, the Owen Wister Award is bestowed upon outstanding authors of these books. For 10 points, name this literary genre of Zane Grey's The Riders of the Purple Sage and numerous novels by Louis L'Amour.
The protagonist of a novel in this genre entertains fellow passengers on a stalled train by describing frogs being hunted en masse to supply restaurants with legs.
Western novels [prompt on adventure novels] &lt;Long Fiction&gt;