Walter van Tilburg Clark Bücher

Set in Nevada in 1885, this gripping story delves into the dangers of lynch law and the fragility of civilized norms in the West. Following reports of a rancher's murder and cattle theft, a posse of vigilantes mistakenly targets three innocent strangers. The novel, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940, powerfully examines group psychology and the authoritarian impulse. In a different narrative, a newspaper editor makes his fiction debut with a tale capturing the essence of the West. Inspired by the Johnson County War, this story reflects on a boy's fascination with a taciturn ranch hand, mythologizing deadly skirmishes into a grand narrative reminiscent of epic tales. Another story centers on the enduring qualities of the Western genre, following Amos Edwards and Martin Pauley on a six-year quest to rescue a girl captured in a Comanche raid. Their journey across Texas embodies persistence and courage. In a bloody saga that challenges Western conventions, a mining town plagued by lawlessness hires a renowned gunslinger as Marshal to combat the brutality of cattle rustlers. The unfolding narrative combines tough realism with diary entries from a thoughtful citizen lamenting the town's descent into chaos, quoting Shakespeare and the Bible as he reflects on the violence surrounding him.

"When Mathilde's stepfather dies in Denmark, she is plagued by worries about the potential death of her American father on the other side of the Atlantic. In a desire to catalog her love for, and memories with, her father, Mathilde travels to America and writes a novel about their relationship that she has always known she should write. Lone Star is about distances: the miles between a father and daughter; the detachment between Mathilde's Danish upbringing and her American family; the separation of language; and the passage of time between Mathilde's adulthood and the summers she spent as a child in St. Louis. These irrevocable gaps swirl as Mathilde voyages to meet her father in Texas to explore a relationship that still has time to grow. At once a travelogue and family novel, Lone Star occupies the often-mythologized landscape of Texas to share a story of being alive and claiming the right to feel at home, even across the ocean."

A cowboy is unable to prevent three wandering travelers from being unjustly lynched for murder

Jeden z nejlepších románů doby osídlování amerického Západu. Děj se rozvíjí kolem loupeží dobytka v dobytkářském městečku, jichž pachatele bezpečnostní orgány stále nemohou dopadnout. Když se lupiči vedle loupeže dopustí i vraždy, ujmou se obyvatelé případu sami.