Episode 32: Westerns

Good-Librations-Podcast-32-600-x-400.jpg

Yeehaw podcast pardners! Jump into the saddle and join us on a journey into the wild West as we take a look behind the fringed leather curtain of the humble Rope Opera.

We'll chinwag about the good, the bad and the deeply problematic and find out how the cowboy really got his chaps.

We'll also discover why Westerns won't be riding off into the sunset anytime soon.

Find it on SpotifyApple or wherever you get your podcasts.

 

Shelf-absorbed (books we reviewed)

  • The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore
  • Red Rising by Pierce Brown
  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • The Heated Rivalry series by Rachel Reid

 

Pumpkin-Spice-Cafe-Laurie-Gilmore.jpg  Red Rising Pierce Brown  Braiding-Sweetgrass-Robin-Wall-Kimmerer.jpg  Heated-Rivalry.jpg

Shelf-important (things we mentioned)

Literary Hub » Notions of “Wilderness:” Nine Essential Books About the American Frontier

How the Western Was Lost (and Why It Matters) - The Atlantic

Landmark Western Novels - Five Books Expert Recommendations

Louis L'Amour: Prolific Writer of American Westerns - 2002-03-16

Why Everyone Suddenly Loves Westerns Again

The History and Future of the Western in 10 Books

America's Fascination With the Western Genre Tells Us Who We Are—and Who We're Not

Is The Western Genre Still Relevant Today? | HuffPost Entertainment

The Western Novel: The Legacy of the Frontier Myth | Gilliam Writers Group

Literary Hub » The Making of America’s Frontier Mythology Was the Making of America

Manifest Destiny | Summary, Examples, Westward Expansion, & Significance | Britannica

https://www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-magazine/post/dust-stars-and-shadows-how-western-genre-literature-helped-shape-fantasy-science-fiction-and-horror?srsltid=AfmBOoooGQF2nvwymtWyEx8hUN2PIdAwtzZsB0stoqjkyUuHv0drVXUe

https://fictionary.co/journal/western-genre/

https://storygrid.com/western-eastern-genre/#:~:text=The%20core%20value%20of%20the,their%20freedom%20in%20the%20process.

Manifest Destiny - American Literature - Oxford Bibliographies

Andrew Jackson and the Common Man

White Fantasy Appropriates Stories of Oppression from People of Color - Electric Literature

Westward Expansion, 1790–1850 | Interactive Map | PBS LearningMedia

The evolution of Native American representation in Westerns | SBS What's On

Native Americans in Western Novels - HubPages

TFG_Revilla.pdf

How the US media has villainized foreign countries – The Knight Crier

The Color of Evil: How American Media Racializes Villains - Sociology Lens Insights

The Cowboy: An American Mythology | CiRCE Institute

The Cowboy: An American West Icon - geriwalton.com

Cowboy Phase — Kill Your Darlings

America 250: Presidential Message on the Anniversary of Our Victory in the Mexican-American War – The White House

"Between Two Worlds: The Literary Legacy of Southward Manifest Destiny " by Connor D. Burns 21

An Interview with Dr. Christopher Conway About His Book “Heroes of the Borderlands: The Western in Mexican, Film, Comics, and Music” (University of New Mexico Press, 2019) – FRONTERAS

An Interview with Dr. Christopher Conway About His Book “Heroes of the Borderlands: The Western in Mexican, Film, Comics, and Music” (University of New Mexico Press, 2019) – FRONTERAS

Microsoft Word - d_kersting_11260216.docx

How Mexican Vaqueros Inspired the American Cowboy | HISTORY

The Space Western — Genre's Unwanted, Weird Cousin

 

Authors/creators

  • Zane Grey
  • Max Brand
  • Louis L’Amour
  • Jack Schaefer
  • Gun Halliday
  • Marshall Grover
  • Ben Taggart
  • Cormac McCarthy
  • Walt Whitman
  • Oprah
  • K.C. Mills
  • T’Lyn
  • Natisha Raynor
  • Charity Shane
  • Chanelle Perkins
  • Beverley Jenkins
  • Rebekah Witherspoon

 

Books/written works

  • The Virginian by Owen Whister
  • The Benedict and Brazos series by Paul Wheelahan writing as E. Jefferson Clay
  • Mills & Boon series
  • Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
  • My Antonia by Willa Caffa
  • Walk me to the Distance by Percival Everett
  • The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton
  • Untamed Heart by Gemma Morr
  • The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje
  • The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage
  • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  • The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt
  • Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams
  • Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
  • The Lost Pardner by Badger Clark
  • The Six Gun Mystique Sequel by John Cawelti
  • Cattle Kate by Jana Bommersbach
  • Cogewea: the Half-blood by Mourning Dove
  • Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
  • Sawbones by Melissa Lenhardt
  • Silver on the Road by Laura Anne Gilman
  • True Grit by Charles Portis
  • Whiskey When We’re Dry by John Larison
  • Wynema: Child of the Forest by S. Alice Callahan
  • Calamity Jane by Christian Perrissin
  • Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
  • Outlawed by Anna North
  • The Epitaph by Maria Doria Russel
  • Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
  • Desert Creatures by Kay Chronister
  • Cowboy Carter by Beyonce
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  • Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
  • North Dakota Quartet by Louise Erdrich
  • The Fast and the Dead by Stephen Graham Jones
  • Bearheart by Gerald Vizenor
  • So Far from Good by Ana Castillo
  • Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas
  • The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantu
  • Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
  • The Black Cowboys of the Old West by Bruce A. Glasrud
  • The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States by William Katz
  • Yellow Back Down Radio Broke Down by Ishmail Reed
  • Wounded by Percival Everett
  • How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
  • The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin
  • Cowboys and East Indians by Nina Mconigley about the Indian Immigrants in the Rural West
  • Inland by Tea Obrecht
  • Girls Burn Brighter by Shoba Rao
  • The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Film/TV:

  • The Proposition
  • The Nightingale
  • The Tracker
  • Sweet Water
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Eat, Pray, Love
  • Under the Tuscan Sun
  • How Stella Got Her Groove Back
  • Dances with Wolves
  • The Last Samurai
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Glory
  • Dangerous Minds
  • Amistad
  • Gran Torino
  • The Blind Side
  • Half Nelson
  • Avatar
  • The Help
  • Fallout
  • 1883
  • Django Unchained
  • The Harder they Fall

I just can't help my-shelf

  • Star Trek
  • Cowboys and Aliens
  • Wild Wild West
  • John Carter by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • The Chronicles of Riddick
  • Flash Gordon
  • The Expanse
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Cowboy BeBop
  • The Mandalorian
  • Firefly
  • Serenity
  • Star Wars
  • Planet of the Apes
  • The English

Shelf-obsessed (further reading and listening)

  • Home to Texas by Matt McCoy
  • The Business of Dying by Richard S. Wheeler
  • How much of these Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
  • Tim of Reckoning by Colin Bainbridge
  • My name is Iron Eyes by Rory Black
  • Wheel of Fortune by Max Brand
  • Lakota Justice by Will Durey
  • Stages of the Heart by Jo Goodman
  • The Tumbleweed Trail by Jack Martin
  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer