>>2791730May this thread live on. May be tangentially related but be sure to check out revisionist Westerns; some of my favorites are:
-The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter van Tilburg Clark
-Warlock by Oakley Hall
-The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
For whatever reason the imagery in these novels just sticks with me like nothing else. Maybe because I grew up around those landscapes. Most people seem to prefer Angle of Repose by Stegner but I think Candy Mountain treats the same stuff in a much better way.
Oh, and as a bonus,
-Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey.
All of these books are very, very sad, by the way.