June on the Range is back - a western themed reading event in June! 

YEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAHH! 🤠 The greatest BookTube outlaw is along for the ride! So glad you are taking part once again. Of course now I just want to continue reading the Hornblower books…😅

Alrighty I’m definitely joining in with at least one western.

Happy to be co-hosting with Y’ALL in the Posse! 🙏🏻 - 📚MJ

Funnily enough I just read True Grit and loved it. Looking to more westerns.

Have my Western pile up and ready to go 🐎

The perfect opportunity to get some old western romances off my TBR!

I did the June on the Range last year and it was great fun, one of the stand outs was Micheal Chritons "Dragons Teeth"

I read my first westerns for garbaugust last year and loved them. Looking forward to this 😊

Melissa Lendhart writes Westerns with women protagonists. I enjoy them!

Got to love a Louis L'Amour. Happy reading.

I read 3:10 to Yuma, The Thicket and The Sisters Brothers last year and they were all awesome!

Hi Ollie. I’ve got several of my dad’s, Zane Grey, books that I may pull out 1 to read. Sounds like fun. I did read Shane many years ago. I’ve mostly read horse stories growing up. 🤣😂 Have a great week. Texas fans here!! Love your channel. 🇺🇸❤️

If you read Louis L'amour's Sacketts Land, that's the first novel in that series and almost the whole story takes place in Britain

I enjoyed True Grit last year. This year I am going to read a book that is important part of a Historical Mystery; Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries, Jack Robinson loves Zane Grey books so I am intrigued and bought an e-book collection of Zane Grey. So, I think I will pick one of the books in the collection for June On The Range ☺ Oh and as a Yank, Yeee, Haaaah!!!!

Yay, June! I'm going to read the sequel to Lonesome Dove!! So excited!

I recently finished The Time it Never Rained by Elmer Kelton. It was excellent. I would also suggest Lonesome Dove. If you only read one western in your life, let it be Lonesome Dove. It's not pulpy or stereotypical, it's simple phenomenal.

I’m in. I’ve been wanting to give Zane Grey a try, so this would be a good excuse. I’ve also been working my way through Stephen King’s Dark Tower series again, and “Wizard and Glass” is Western-ish enough for me to add to my June TBR. 🤠

I am ALL IN! I visited Colorado last month and I'm dying to go back. I'm specifically looking for Westerns set in the Rockies.

I’ve been dipping my toes into Westerns for a few weeks now-I read Lonesome Dove (which was a 10/10 perfect read in my opinion) and Callaghen by Louis L’Amour which was fun and not nearly as outdated in it’s attitudes as I expected. Needs a sequel, tho’!

I'm not 100% on the colouring of that Zane Grey book from the early 1900s but if it is Emerald Green I'd be very careful with that Olly as 19th century books used arsenic for emerald green, so it may not be safe to handle it without gloves.

Very timely- I literally finished Shane today! As an Englishman who loves the American Western (in both books and movies), I also often ask the question: “What’s our Western genre?”, the naval adventure is a good shout, although Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe books I think fit the mould better: Bloke who is very skilled with a gun, has a small posse of trusted men and goes about on horseback. However, for me, I think there are a lot of British takes on the whole maverick detective concept that I find have very cowboy-ish heroes - particularly from pulp writers: Guy N. Smith’s Black Fedora books, and Hutson’s Sean Doyle series spring to mind immediately. But there are more examples in cinema and TV especially.

I read Flint by Louis L'amour back in the day and it was good. Cormac Mccarthy has some good westerns too. The 2 collections I'll be looking into. All four in the first had movies made from them (searchers, shane, ox-bow) and Hombre (which I didn't know Elmore Leonard wrote) was also.

Last year June on the range turned into June AND July on the range and as I'm planning on reading Dead Man's Walk by Patrick McMurtry, Badger Boy by Elmer Kelton, The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey and at least one Louis Lamore it could happen again! Funny you should mention the naval adventure books as a western equivalent, I'm going to read Master and Commander after I finish what I'm currently reading and I do agree with the sentiment, I would say the Sharpe books by Bernard Cornwell also have some parallels with Westerns in so much as the early ones are about the Redcoats conquering the wild lands of India.

I highly recommend the Holmes on the Range series by Steve Hockensmith. They are westerns with a Sherlock Holmes element, and really well done. Also, Robert B. Parker wrote some excellent westerns starting with Appaloosa. Virgil and Everett are great characters that appear throughout the series.

Ah, read the real Zane Grey book! Just be careful with it. Even vintage books are still intended to be read. Those Edge books are interesting. The British and American versions often have different cover art, and sometimes even different titles. All those Library of America books are excellent. I just read The Searchers about a month ago, which is GREAT. Really, really great. Shane is also great. I haven't read Warlock yet, either... it's pretty long so I'm working up to tackling it. And all those Elmore Leonards are great. Last Stand at Sabre River is excellent. Try to scare up some Lewis B. Patten if you can find any. I'm really hung up on his writing lately, can't stop going back to him. A Killing in Kiowa is amazing (this guy gets in what seems like a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation, and Patten doesn't give him any easy outs), and Death Stalks Yellowhorse is practically a slasher novel, just in the west. If you like historical novels, The Red Sabbath, about Custer's last stand, is great. There's an amazing sense of dread in that book as the Sioux start showing up wearing bloody shirts from a troop everybody's looking for... Also, a Sioux who knows how to play the bugle starts messing with them, blowing confusing commands and terrorizing the cavalry. It's very intense stuff.

First off, I love the idea of this. I don't know if I've ever read a western before. I love the comparison to adventures on boats though. I'm currently reading "The Wager" which won a lot of awards last year and it's nonfiction. It keeps referencing British novels that apparently the true story of the Wager inspired. But anyway, I completely agree that anything including western expansion and a sort of lawlessness is going to line up to Westerns based on what I know from film.

Yes, I’m definitely taking part. I will be rereading Doc and reading for the first time epitaph both by Mary Doria Russell. I did enjoy Doc the first time very much and can highly recommend it. It’s about Doc Holliday. It’s fiction but probably extremely well researched.

I believe I speak for many of us when I thank you for your restraint in not talking western any more than you did. Hint: as in many attempts by amateurs to cope with unfamiliar accents, it's best done drunk. That's when my Texan comes out to chat - but I did live in Austin for almost 10 years, so there's that. Anyway, if you're boozy enough, even if you utterly f*ck up the accent, you likely won't clearly remember the hideous details later on. All in all, it's cheaper and easier to get a hat. I'll be reading some Joe R Lansdale. I haven't done The Thicket yet (been saving it for the right moment), and The Bottoms is crying out to me for a re-read.

I guess June is time for me to read True Grit!

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Do you think it’s necessary to read The Edge books in order? Thinking about picking some up.

I am looking forward to June on the Range. Growing up my favorite genre was westerns but I started reading other things. Lately I have read a western and month. Looking forward to a month filled with westerns.

Maybe we need a High Seas event. Not June or August of course.

I have just bought my first Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour novels. I am ready! 🤠🐴🧲

I hope to read at least one western for June on the Range. I found a good used copy of The Loner a few months back. Definitely want to read that one.

Is there Australian cowboy book it seems like the would be comparable to the American Western?

When I was away for school my brother traded in all my James Blish Star Trek books for Louis Lamour novels. Sigh. Do the Gunny Rose series count as westerns? :)

That Library of America volume is excellent. Not a bad novel in it. Elmore Leonard, just like with his Crime novels, wrote some of the best Western novels and stories in the genre. I don't know why they tend to get overlooked. Ron Hansen's books are also really good.

I find Westerns rather quaint and also well done on not going full Clint Eastwood on us.

Olly my guy - I may struggle with this one. I have been interested in reading Blood Meridian after watching Wendigoon break it down (I think you would like that video actually), but that was hella creepy. My two options now are "The Engineer's Apprentice," I think it's like Will Smith in 'Wild, Wild, West' (I hope it's that good)! 💁🏽‍♀I also have on hold "Once Upon a Time in the Black West" which is historical fiction. Apparently, the narrator is telling the stories of famous black cowboys to his dog Sundown. 👀 Thoughts?

ive always disliked western genre but I got access to Terrence Mcauleys Sheriff Austin mackey series of 4 books and they are good. I really enjoyed the first 2 Ive read so far

Saddle Up Mate!

British equivalent of the western? How about Rudyard Kipling?

I didn't like Warlock, but I want you to read it and see what you think. It's too long. Yes I think you're on to something re: the Royal Navy genre.

If you haven't previously read it, I might recommend /The Ferguson Rifle/ by Louis L'Amour for you. As I recall, the main character is a British ex. pat. who goes west to build a new life, and reflect a bit on what it was about the American West that was magnetic to some immigrants. Also, I really liked your reflection on the British naval adventure as reflecting a similar ethos. Perhaps not surprisingly, both genres don't always age well to modern sensibilities.