Welcome to the Essential Western Novels book series, where you will find a selection of endless tales about deadly shootouts, gunslingers seeking revenge, love stories with beautiful women, in peril, and of course, cowboys and their trusty steeds.

For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the 5 novels by authors who created memorable stories that shaped the foundations of Western fiction.

This book contains the following novels:
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London.
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.
- The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey.
- Riders of the Silences by Max Brand.
- Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography by Andy Adams.

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Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains.

Pearl Zane Grey (1872 - 1939) was an American author and dentist best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts.

Andy Adams (1859–1935) was one of the few writers of the West who had a knowledge based on experience that enabled him to record cowboy life authentically.

Max Brand (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his Western stories.

Jack London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines.