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A list of western fiction authors with writers who specialize in all types of western historical fiction and tales of the American frontier. If cowboys, indians (native americans), gold miners, and outlaws are your favorite types of characters, then you're a western fiction fan. Remember though that "the frontier" is a relative term. The earliest westerns took place in the Appalachian mountains as that was once considered the great western unknown. It wasn't until later, the 1850's and beyond, that westerns began to take place west of the Mississippi River. Many consider the golden age of the historic west to have occurred for only three decades, from the end of the civil war to the beginning of the 20th century. Western fiction peaked during the 1960's, but can still be found to this day. The western fiction authors on this list are some of the best.

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  1. 1

    A.B. Guthrie, Jr.

  2. 2

    A.M. Chisholm

  3. 3

    Alan Lemay

    By Dim And Flare Lamp, Thunder In The Dust, West of Nowhere, The Searchers, Guinsight Trail, Cattle Kingdom, Unforgiven, Gunsight Trail, Winter Range More
  4. 4

    Allan R. Bosworth

    1901
    Sancho of the long, long horns, Bury me not, The Crows of Edwina Hill
    United States of America
  5. 5
    1912
    Sargasso of Space, Garan the Eternal, Scent of magic, Gods and androids, Ciara's Song, Sea Siege, The Crossroads of Time / Mankind on the Run, Year of the Rat, Star Man's Son, Da zdravstvuet Lord Kor!, Stand and Deliver, At swords' points, Horn crown, Warlock, Magic in Ithkar 1, The Stars are Ours!, Shadow hawk, Silver may tarnish, Lord of Thunder, The Beast Master, Huon of the Horn, Darkness and dawn, The Mark of the Cat, Forerunner, Elvenblood, Golden Trillium, Key Out of Time, Judgment on Janus, Quest Crosstime, From the Sea to the Stars, Yurth Burden, Seven Spells to Sunday, knight of the red beard, Outside, Flight of Vengeance, Der Tigerclan von Merina, Stand to horse, Storm over Warlock, Plague Ship, Atlantis endgame, Mirror of Destiny, Elvenborn, Witch World, Trey of Swords, The Gate of the Cat, Black Trillium, Moon Called, Plague Ship, Dark companion, The duke's ballad, Storms of victory, Star soldiers, Masks of the outcasts, Wind in the stone, The shadow of Albion, Echoes in time, Derelict for trade, Three hands for Scorpio, Knight or knave, A crown disowned, Return to Quag Keep, The Solar Queen, A mind for trade, The monster's legacy, Dragon Blade, Dragon Mage, A Taste of Magic, Beast Master's Circus, Beast Master's Quest, The Key of the Keplian, Beast Master's Ark, Leopard In Exile, Merlin's Mirror, The Magestone, Imperial Lady, The Hands of Lyr, Garan the Eternal, Breed to Come, Moonsinger, To the King a Daughter, The Many Worlds of Andre Norton, The Crossroads of Time, The Sioux Spaceman, Sargasso of Space, Forerunner Foray, Forerunner: The Second Venture, Catseye, Time Traders II: The Defiant Agents & Key Out of Time, Zarsthor's Bane, Songsmith, The Defiant Agents, Firehand, High Sorcery, Moon of Three Rings, Dare to Go A-Hunting, The Crystal Gryphon, Year of the Unicorn, The Jargoon Pard, Gryphon’s Eyrie, Moon Mirror, Port of Dead Ships, Perilous Dreams, The Sioux Spaceman / And Then the Town Took Off, One Against Herculum / Secret of the Lost Race, Garan the Eternal, Planet of No Return / Star Guard, The Last Planet / A Man Obsessed, Secret of the Lost Race, Plague Ship / Voodoo Planet, White Jade Fox, Yankee Privateer, The Magic Books, The Game of Stars and Comets, Andre Norton: Fables and Futures, Voorloper, Spell of the Witch World, Lore of the Witch World, Witch Wld 08/zarsth, Wheel of Stars-Can, Gate Of Cat 27fl, Space pioneers, Scarface, being the story of one Justin Blade, Iron cage, Iron Butterflies, House of Shadows, Flight in Yiktor, Janus, Wizards' worlds, Outside Kgt, Crosstime, Dark Piper, Mother Miller's How to Write Good Book, Spell of Witchworld, Space police, Elvenbane, Snow Shadow, Star Rangers, Annals of the Witch World, Were-Wrath, Follow the drum, being the ventures and misadventures of one Johanna Lovell, sometime lady of Catkept manor in Kent county of Lord Baltimore's proprietary of Maryland, in the gracious reign of King Charles the Second, Fantastic Cat, Star Born, Star Flight, Octagon magic, Norton Tie-in 24ppk, Tigre, feu et flamme, Die Zauberin von Ruwenda, Unchartered Stars, Norton 15mxpk, Space service, Star Hunter, Small Shadows Creep, Velvet shadows, Avariynaia planeta, Brother to shadows, The elvenbane, Empire of the eagle, Eye of the monster, Galactic derelict, Ordeal in otherwhere More
    Cleveland
    United States of America
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    Andrew J. Fenady

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    Andrey Veter

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    Andy Adams

    1859
    Why the Chisholm Trail forks, Oak Openings, Mystery of the Arabian stallion, Reed Anthony, cowman, Wells brothers, Ranch on the Beaver, The log of a cowboy, Cattle Brands, British spy ring mystery, African ivory mystery, Outlet, The, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Sumo, Andy Adams' Campfire tales, Egyptian scarab mystery, Trail drive, Texas matchmaker, The Outlet More
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    Angelo Hall

    1868
    astronomer's wife, Facts about the Bible, Songs of love and war, An Astronomers Wife, Forty-one Thieves More
  10. 10
    1917
    Tremor of Intent: An Eschatological Spy Novel, Beds in the East, The Right to an Answer, Honey for the Bears, The Eve of St. Venus, The Wanting Seed, Nineteen Eighty-Five, Earthly Powers, You've Had Your Time, The Long Day Wanes, Hommage a qwert yuiop, Inside Mr. Enderby, A Vision of Battlements, Beard's Roman Women, One Hand Clapping, But do blondes prefer gentlemen?, puissances des ténèbres, Revolutionary sonnets and other poems, orange me canique, Dernières nouvelles du monde, Ninety-nine Novels, Abba Abba, Enderby Outside, The Kingdom of the Wicked, Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End of Enderby, The End of the World News: An Entertainment, 1985, Moses, Urgent copy, A Dead Man in Deptford, One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings, A Clockwork Orange, M/F, Time for a Tiger, Man of Nazareth, Devil of a State, Language Made Plain, The Doctor is Sick, The Enemy in the Blanket, A Mouthful of Air, Byrne: A Novel, The Worm and the Ring, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life, New York, Any Old Iron, Rencontre au Sommet, The Pianoplayers, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End, Shakespeare, Mozart and the Wolf Gang, Napoleon Symphony, Cyrano, The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy, A Long Trip to Teatime, This Man and Music, Blooms of Dublin, The Devil's Mode (Stories), The Novel To-day, The Age of the Grand Tour, A Christmas Recipe, Ernest Hemingway and His World, Little Wilson and Big God: Being the First Part of the Confession, On Mozart: A Paean for Wolfgang : Being a Celestial Colloquy, an Opera Libretto, a Film Script, a Schizophrenic Dialogue, a Bewildered Rumination, A, Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D.H. Lawrence, Re Joyce, Pianistes, English literature, Rom im Regen, Future imperfect, Conversations with Anthony Burgess, Joysprick, Zavodnoĭ apelʹsin, Obscenity and the arts, Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus the King, Uhrwerk orange, Will and testament, Homage to QWERT YUIOP More
    Harpurhey
    United Kingdom, England
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    Arthur Henry Gooden

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    B. M. Bower

    1871
    The Heritage of the Sioux, Open land, Law on the Flying U, Her prairie knight, Lonesome land, The Gringos, The Long Shadow, Cabin Fever, Cow country, The spirit of the range, Rowdy of the Cross L, Quirt, Rodeo, trail of the white mule, ranch at the Wolverine, Good Indian, The Whoop-Up Trail, Flying U Ranch, Five Star First Edition Westerns - The Terror, The Lonesome Trail, The happy family of the flying U, Bellehelen mine, Casey Ryan, Jean of the Lazy A, lookout man, Parowan bonanza, Points west, lure of the dim trails, shadow mountain, Skyrider, family failing, The Eagle's Wing a Story of the Colorado, The Range Dwellers, Rim o' the world, Outlaw moon, Van Patten, Meadowlark Basin, voice at Johnnywater, Starr, of the Desert, Black thunder, Dark horse, The Phantom Herd, uphill climb, Fool's goal, Swallowfork bulls, Desert brew, Pirates of the range, Tiger Eye, dry ridge gang, The Terror, thunder bird, long loop, Sweet grass, Trails meet, White wolves, Trouble Rides the Wind, Collected Works of B. M. Bower, The Flying U's Last Stand More
    Cleveland
    United States of America
    Pseudonym of Bertha "Muzzy" Sinclair.
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    Barry Cord

    Pseudonym of Peter B. Germano.
  14. 14

    Bill Brooks

    1943
    Sound Selling, Pretty Boy, Law for hire, British Columbia, Old Times, Pistolero, High Impact Living/Book and Cassette, Leaving Cheyenne, Dakota Lawman, A Bullet for Billy, Best of Westerns, Colour of New Brunswick/Couleur Du Nouveau-Brunswick, badmen, Return to no man's land, The Horses, Rides a Stranger, Deadwood, Buscadero, Perfect Phrases for the Sales Call More
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    1943
    Boobytrap, Quincannon's game, Burgade's Crossing, Prose Bowl, Murder in the First Reel, Hard Boiled, Skeleton Rattle Your Mouldy Leg, Bones, Labyrinth, Sentinels, The Ethnic Detectives, Nightcrawlers, Illusions, Crazybone, Bindlestiff, Panic!, Night freight, The Crimes of Jordan Wise, Breakdown, Creature!, Firewind, Der Mann, der niemals starb, Mon pote le vendu, The alias man, Masques, a novel of terror, Scattershot, Il n'y a pas d'innocents, Witches' Brew, The Eyes Still Have It, The Lighthouse, The Web She Weaves, The Lighthouse, Crucifixion River, Spook: A "Nameless Detective" Novel, La Nuit hurle, 2ème édition, Felonious Assaults#5, Six-gun in cheek, The Steamboaters, Undercurrent, Strangers in the Fog , A Wasteland of Strangers, Bleeders, The gallows land, Scenarios, In an evil time, Starvation camp, On account of darkness and other SF stories, Step to the graveyard easy, Oddments, The vanished, Savages, Mourners, Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, Nothing but the night, Acts of Mercy, Carmody's Run, The Running of Beasts, More oddments, Coyote And Quarter-Moon, The Eye, snatch, last days of Horse-Shy Halloran, Shackles, Border fever, Gun in Cheek, The Cattlemen-#7, La Traversée des Enfers, Wildfire, Homicidal Acts #4, Blood Sky, CALIFORNIANS, THE, Tödliche Fremde, Blauer Skorpion, All the long years, Case file, Snowbound, Graveyard Plots, Mummy, With an extreme burning, Quicksilver, Schlechte Karten, Fever, Riders in the Shadowlands, Mystery in the Mainstream, Tales Of The Dead, La terre du bourreau, Arizonans, The, Dead run, Hoodwink, Freebooty, Voodoo, Christmas Out West, The Hangings, SchattenNächte, Wild Westerns, Blowback, The Northerners, Criminal Elements, Double, Masques, Gunfighters, The, Quarry, Spadework, killing in Xanadu, Epitaphs, Prime Suspects, Sleuths, 1001 Midnights: The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, Nightshades, Le Carcan, Specter--A Chrestomathy of Spookery, Demons, More Wild Westerns, Night screams, The Texans, The Stalker, Werewolf, Deadfall, The Cowboys, Dunkler Morgen, Jackpot, Blue lonesome, Bakers Dozen, Stacked Deck, Horse Soldiers #8, Hardcase, jade figurine, Problems solved, Small felonies, Games, The Railroaders, Dragonfire/Casefile, The Warriors, Suspicious Characters, The Outlaws, Duel at Gold Buttes, Mystery Hall of Fame, The Tormentor, Son of Gun in Cheek, The Running Man, Twospot, The best western stories of Bill Pronzini, Incident in a Neighborhood Tavern More
    Petaluma
    United States of America
  16. 16
    1893
    Range ghost, Dead man's trail, Outlaw Roundup/Large Print, Rangers at bay, Death on the rimrock, Gunsmoke over Texas, The Tenakh, Outlaw Gold, Frontier Doctor, blaze of guns, Curse of Texas Gold, Silver City, The Texas Ranger, Gold for the dead, Holster law, range rider, Valley of Hunted Men, Terror Stalks The Border, Pecos Trail, Rider of the Mesquite Trail, Bullet Brand, The Shadow of Heavenly Things, Raiders of the Rio Grande More
  17. 17
    1836
    Tales by Edgar A. Poe, The Mermaid of Light House Point, Mr. Jack Hamlin's mediation, Sixteen stories, Mliss, Sc©Łenes de la vie californienne et esquisses de moeurs transatlantiques, Jimmy's Big Brother From California, Mliss, Planning & Resource Guide, story of Enriquez, Thankful Blossom, Trent's Trust and Other Stories, Poems, Idyls of the foothills, Condensed novels, An ingenue of the Sierras, "Excelsior" presented by Enoch Morgan's Sons, New York, The best of Bret Harte, The Heathen Chinee, Tales of the gold rush, Drift from Two Shores, A Phyllis of the Sierras, Three Partners, Tarinoita Kalifornian kultamaalta, Tennessee's Partner, On the old trail, Susy, hoodlum band, and other stories, Lost Galleon, On the Frontier, The Crusade of the Excelsior, High-Water Mark, Echoes of the foot-hills .., Troe brodi︠a︡g iz Trinidada, Susy, a Story of the Plains, The Story of a Mine, Stories of the early West, A Niece of Snapshot Harry's and Other Tales, A Bluegrass Penelope, Clarence, The poetical works of Bret Harte, Bret Harte birthday book, Sally Dows, and other stories, millionaire of Rough-and-Ready and Devil's Ford, Plain Language for Truthful James, In The Tules, Barker's luck and other stories, Frontier Stories, By Shore & Sedge, Pliocene skull, Girl from Pike County, Planning & Resource Guide, Deacon Jones' experience, writings of Bret Harte, Sensation novels, condensed, Tales in Prose and Verse, queen of the Pirate Isle, The Argonauts of North Liberty, Tales of the Argonauts, Two Men of Sandy Bar, From sand hill to pine, Cressy, Schastʹe Revushchego Stana i drugie rasskazy, Selected letters of Bret Harte, Works (25 Volumes), The luck of Roaring Camp, The luck of Roaring Camp and other short stories, Selected stories and sketches, Miggles, Complete poetical works, Relatos del Oeste Californiano, Socio de Tennessee, El, Stories in Light and Shadow, Tales, Poems and Sketches of Bret Harte, The Man of No Account, New Burlesques, Truthful James and other poems, A Vision Of The Fountain, Cressy And Other Tales, Fascinating San Francisco, Lothaw, adventure of Padre Vicentio, By shore and sedge, Under the redwoods, A Mother Of Five, night at Wingdam, Flip, and other stories, Sappho of Green springs, Some later verses, The Twins of Table Mountain, In a Hollow of the Hills, Cas-Puss in Boots, Devil's Ford, In the Carquinez woods, poetical works of Bret Harte, Polly of the Circus, Old West in the old world, Dickens in camp, Poems and drama, pagan child, and other sketches, Sketches of the Sixties, East and West, Outcroppings, best of Bret Harte, wild west, Stories and Poems, Novels and stories, The Friendly Craft, A Ship of '49, A Widow Of The Santa Ana Valley, That heathen Chinee and other poems, mostly humorous, Urban Sketches, Captain Jim's friend and The Argonauts of North Liberty, The Conspiracy Of Mrs. Bunker, 9 sketches, Her letter, His answer & Her last letter, Colonel Starbottle's Client and Flip Found at Blazing Star, The Ransom of Red Chief and Others, Flip, and Found at Blazing Star, man on the beach, ancestors of Peter Atherly, and other tales, On the frontier, How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar, heathen Chinee, protégée of Jack Hamlin's, and other stories, Wan Lee, The Pagan; How Old Man Plunkett Went Home, A Lonely Ride, A Romance Of The Line, California stories, Maruja, and Other Tales, Bocetos Californianos, The Right Eye of Commander, A Secret of Telegraph Hill, Jeff Briggs's Love Story, Flip, The Devotion of Enriguez, Sue, Collected Works of Bret Harte Volume 2, Gabriel Conroy, Flip, Found at Blazing Star, Salomy Jane, Three Vagabonds of Trinidad, bohemian Days in San Francisco, Maruja, works of Bret Harte, Brown of Calaveras, Mrs. Skagg's husbands, and other sketches, Openings in the old trail, How I went to the mines, The Youngest Miss Piper, A Convert Of The Mission, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Legends and Tales, Francis Bret Harte, heir of the McHulishes, Californian stories, "Cicely." [Alkali station], Condensed novels and other papers, 'Dolores.', The fool of Five Forks, The great Deadwood mystery, An heiress of Red Dog and other tales, "How are you? Sanitary.", Johnnyboy, Magazine issues, Miscellaneous pamphlet material concerning Bret Harte not separately cataloged., San Francisco, from the sea, What happened at the fonda, The works of Bret Harte, The writings of Bret Harte, His answer to "Her letter.", My first book, On the old trail, Two lost ballads of San Francisco, Young Robin Gray, The best short stories of Bret Harte, Bret Harte, Clarence, The complete poetical works of Bret Harte, Concepción de Argüello, Concepción de Arguello, Cressy, East and West, An episode of Fiddletown, "Excelsior", A first family of Tasajara, Frontier stories, The heritage of Dedlow Marsh, The heritage of Dedlow Marsh and other tales, The lectures of Bret Harte, comp. from various sources, The letters of Bret Harte, The luck of Roaring Camp, and other sketches, The luck of Roaring Camp, and other stories, Mrs. Skaggs's husbands, and other sketches, Muck-a-Muck, On the frontier, The outcasts of Poker Flat, and other tales, Poems, Prose and poetry, Sally Dows, Sally Dows, etc., San Francisco in 1866, Select works of Bret Harte, Stories and poems and other uncollected writings, Sue, Tales of trail and town, A treasure of the redwoods, A ward of the golden gate More
    Albany
    United States of America
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    Cameron Judd

    Corrigan, The Shadow Warriors, Kenton's challenge, The Border Men, The Bridge Burners, Texas freedom, treasure of Jericho Mountain, glory river, Caine's Trail, Revenge on Shadow Trail, Canebrake men, Cherokee Joe, Fiddler & McCan, The Phantom Legion, War at Fire Creek, quest of Brady Kenton, Bad Night at Dry Creek, Confederate Gold, Mr. Littlejohn, Bitterroot/Audio Cassette, Renegade Lawmen, Crockett of Tennessee, Devil Wire, Fiddler and McCan, Snow sky, Boone, The Hanging At Leadville, Passages to Natchez, Beggar's gulch, Shootout in Dodge City, Cameron Judd's the bridge burners, Jerusalem camp, Timber Creek, Overmountain Men, The, Firefall, Brazos, Season of Reckoning More
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    Chad Oliver

    1928
    The Shores of Another Sea, Far from This Earth and Other Stories, Continuum 2, Artifacts, Mists of Dawn, Ghost Town, Transfusion, The Cannibal Owl, The Edge of Forever, A Star Above It and Other Stories, Giants in the Dust, Unearthly Neighbors, From Other Shores, winds of time, Shadows in the Sun, Three in Time: A White Wolf Rediscovery Trio, Another World, Ecology and cultural continuity as contributing factors in the social organization of the Plains Indians, discovery of humanity, Wolf Is My Brother More
    Cincinnati
    United States of America
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    Charles A. Gunnison

    1861
    In Macao, The beautiful eyes of Ysidria, Toni and Moidl, Fuji-no-Yama, In the San Benito hills, etc, The miracle of St. Kümmerniss, A Napa Christchild, and, Benicia's letters, Short stories, Though given in vain, Windsheim bells and other poems, The butler's story More
  21. 21

    Charles G. West

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    Charles King

    1844
    knight of Columbia, Sunset Pass, From the ranks, initial experience and other stories, Two soldiers, and Dunraven ranch, Under fire, Lieutenant Sandy Ray, further story of Lieutenant Sandy Ray, Captain Blake, Found in the Philippines, tame surrender, Kitty's conquest, medal of honor, Comrade in arms, rock of Chickamauga, Cadet days, army wife, Waring's peril, iron brigade, Warrior Gap, Trooper Ross and Signal Butte, Between the lines, To the front, Comrades in arms, Foes in ambush, conquering corps badge, Lanier of the cavalry, or, A week's arrest, Trumpeter Fred, Famous and decisive battles of the world, Ray's recruit, Ray's daughter, daughter of the Sioux, Apache princess, general's double, Long-distance riding, Fort Frayne, Marion's faith, Trials of a staff-officer, story of Fort Frayne, Tonio, Writings of Captain Charles King, U.S.A, In spite of foes, true Ulysses S. Grant, trooper Galahad, garrison tangle, wounded name, soldier's secret, Norman Holt, war-time wooing, Army portia, Captain Close, and Sergeant Croesus, Campaigning with Crook, From school to battlefield, deserter, An Army Wife, Captured, Indian campaigns, Great battles of history, Between the lines, Campaigning with Crook. With an introd. by Don Russell, A daughter of the Sioux, The medal of honor, Under fire More
    Albany
  23. 23
    1939
    Two from the West, The Reprobates, All the riches of Job, Beyond the Big River, The Western Film Review, When Good Men Ride, You're gonna love it More
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    Chuck Tyrell

    Pseudonym of Charles T. Whipple.
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    Clair Huffaker

    1926
    Posse from Hell, Guns Rio Conchos, War Wagon, Cowboy, Cowboy and Cossack, Guns Frm Thundr MT, One Time I Saw Morning Come Home, Profiles Amer West, 7 Ways from Sundwn More

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