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The First Page BEST OF THE WEST FIRST PA THE GE LIST Cheewa James’s & Lynda A. Sánchez’s Influential ‘Best of the West’ rides again Nonfiction Welcome to the “Best of the West.” “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” The Cheewa James is author of Modoc: The Tribe That Wouldn’t Die. Lynda A. Every so often, WWA has published Searchers remains my pick as Best West- Sánchez’s books include Apache Legends lists of best Western nonfiction books, ern Movie, but I’d often rather watch & Lore of Southern New Mexico: From the novels, etc. This Seven Men from Now. Sacred Mountain. time, it’s a little What makes a Western novel influ- different, but in ential? Well, D.B. Newton’s Range Boss James’s picks the same spirit that (1948) was the first original mass- • A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (1949) lively literary dis- market paperback novel for any genre, a cussions generate. format that launched, and still launches, • Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber (1961) WWA president many careers. A.B. Guthrie Jr.’s The Big JOHNNY D. Chris Enss ap- Sky was a major influence on me, yet • Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. BOGGS pointed committee I’ve never written fiction about moun- Houston (2002) chairs, and committees chose important tain men or keelboats. How many writ- by S.C. Western nonfiction books and docu- ers owe Tony Hillerman thank-yous? • Empire of the Summer Moon Gwynne (2011) mentaries, top Western novels, signifi- The Virginian (1902) is considered by David cant movies and influential songs. the first Western novel, but Mollie E. • Killers of the Flower Moon Grann (2016) I get it. “Best” has many meanings. Moore Davis’s The Wire Cutters was “Favorite” isn’t permanent. Yester- published in 1899. Did Davis influence Sánchez’s picks day, my favorite song was “Deportee: Owen Wister? Andy Adams’s The Log • Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver by J. Plane Wreck at Los Gatos Canyon” by of a Cowboy (1903) was so important, Frank Dobie (1928) Woody Guthrie. Today it’s “All These it’s often called nonfiction despite being • The Conquest of Apacheria by Dan L. Things” by Joe Stampley – and I’m no written as a novel. Thrapp (1967) Stampley fan. Tomorrow it’ll return to Bad Girls was dramatically significant, • Unknown Mexico by Carl Lumholtz stopping all the Hollywood inroads (1977) BEST OF THE WEST Dances with Wolves paved. But Dances • Indeh: An Apache Odyssey by Eve LIST with Wolves likely isn’t made if John Ball with Nora Henn and Lynda A. Fusco doesn’t write Young Guns. Sánchez (1980, 1988) C.J. Box’s Influential Novels In addition to the committees’ lists, • The Lincoln County War by C.J. Box is the New York Times various WWA members were asked to Frederick W. Nolan (1992) bestselling author of Long Range. come up with their influential Western • The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie (1947) books or novels – leaving the meaning at WWA. C.J. Box sent in a Top 5, but • Little Big Man by Thomas Berger of influential and Western up to the indi- couldn’t break a tie for his last choice. (1964) viduals. Hey, Donnie Birchfield called Other Top 10s can be found on Pages 7, • True Grit by Charles Portis (1968) Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest a West- 28 and 29. • The Cowboys by William Dale ern. I say the same of John Steinbeck’s WWA publishes these lists to stimu- Jennings (1971) The Grapes of Wrath. late conversation. To make casual fans • Blood Meridian by Cormac Cheewa James, as you see, wanted to and even Western writers find Western McCarthy (1985) do her Top 10 with Lynda A. Sánchez. books, movies, documentaries and songs • Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry They met in the 1960s at Big Bend Na- that might have escaped their radar. (1985) tional Park and resumed their friendship Let the debates begin. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BOARD MEMBERS ELECTIONS NOMINATIONS Chris Enss, Howard CONTRIBUTORS Candy Moulton Harlan Hague Melody Groves, Chair Phil Mills Jr. Kazanjian, Candy Moulton, Articles, columns, editorials, opinions and 271 CR 219 [email protected] Johnny D. Boggs, Thomas [email protected] Quackgrass Sally, announcements in Roundup will be issue- Encampment, WY 82325 David Morrell D. Clagett, Ollie Reed Jr. Pete Simpson, James A. oriented. Electronic queries and submis- SPUR® AWARDS sions only, please, emailed to roundup- [email protected] [email protected] Crutchfield (emeritus) FINANCE Tim Nicklas, Quackgrass [email protected]. Photographs and/or other (307) 329-8942 Rocky Gibbons illustrations should be hi-resolution jpegs Nancy Plain, Chair Sally, co-chairs ROUNDUP MAGAZINE at least 5x7 at 300 dpi, and can also be PRESIDENT [email protected] SUBSCRIPTIONS, Bob Clark, Chris Enss, [email protected] emailed or mailed on a CD to Johnny DELIVERY PROBLEMS, Chris Enss PAST PRESIDENT Candy Moulton D. Boggs, Editor, Roundup Magazine, 10 WISTER AWARD [email protected] Nancy Plain ADDRESS CHANGES Dovela Road, Santa Fe, NM 87508. All WEBSITE/MARKETING/PR Phil Mills Jr., Chair WWA [email protected] submissions will be copy-edited and, when VICE PRESIDENT Chris Enss, Chair Win Blevins, James A. Candy Moulton necessary, edited for length. Note: Material Phil Mills Jr. 2021 CONVENTION Johnny D. Boggs, Crutchfield, Chris Enss, 271 CR 219 published in Roundup, whether poetry or [email protected] Loveland, Colorado Loren D. Estleman, Candy nonfiction, is NOT ELIGIBLE for WWA’s Candy Moulton Encampment, WY 82325 Spur Awards competition. Candy Moulton, Executive Moulton [email protected] SECRETARY-TREASURER SOCIAL MEDIA Director (307) 329-8942 Roundup, Spur, Literature of the West for the Candy Moulton HOMESTEAD [email protected] Kellen Cutsforth World, and Western Writers of America in [email protected] FOUNDATION BOARD Members receive a $45 combination with the stylized WWA are MEMBERSHIP 4 4 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE Nancy Plain, Johnny D. subscription to Roundup® trademarks registeredFEBRUARY in the 2021 U.S. Patent and Rocky Gibbons Boggs, Kirk Ellis, Magazine. Trademark Office by Western Writers of [email protected] WHERE TO WRITE TO WHERE America, Inc. 218 February 2021 Vol 28 No 3.indd 4 1/15/21 8:17 AM BEST OF THE WEST These lists show top, important, significant, influential works By Johnny D. Boggs committee. The committees American society has developed a taste for “greatest” lists. also chose what to call these Greatest presidents. Best athletes. All-time movies. WWA is no lists: “Top” Western novels, exception. “Important” Western non- During its 60-plus years, WWA has often published its fiction books, “Significant” choices of genre favorites. Most recently, in 2013, WWA’s 60th Western movies, “Impor- anniversary, members were polled to pick the best Western tant” Western documentaries and “Influential” Western songs. novels, nonfiction books and short stories. A few years before While the theme is “Best of the West,” these aren’t “great- that, members were asked to select the best Western movies est” lists, so in all categories except song, selections are listed (2008), TV series (2009) and songs (2010). In 2000, members chronologically by year of publication/release. Many songs are picked the 20th Century’s best Western authors, novels, non- hard to date and/or have been covered countless times, so that fiction books, short stories, TV series and miniseries. WWA list is arranged by ballot tabulations. announced “best” Westerns in 1985 and 1995, too. If any choices don’t meet your approval, relax. These things th th This time, WWA president Chris Enss appointed chairs to aren’t permanent, and with 70 and 75 anniversaries of WWA head various committees. The chair selected members for each coming up, more “best” lists might be forthcoming. Western history titles Novels from The Octopus from 1849 to 2012 to Cormac McCarthy By James A. Crutchfeld By Preston Lewis In late 2019, I was appointed by the In the 1981 Texas Observer essay “Ever A WWA board of directors to compile a list of Bridegroom: Reflections on the Failure of the 25 most important Western Texas Literature,” Larry McMurtry lament- nonfiction books to appear in ed the impact of “the country – or Western, the United States between 1840 or cowboy – myth” on the quality of Texas and the present, as chosen by a letters. committee of WWA members. Wrote McMurtry: “It was clear by then The list, chronologically by that this myth had served its time, and lost year of first publication, fol- its potency; insofar as it still functioned it lows. was an inhibiting, rather than a creative, Francis Parkman The California and Oregon factor in our literary life; the death of the Trail: Sketches of Prairie and cowboy and the ending of the rural way of Rocky-Mountain Life by Francis life had been lamented sufficiently, and there Parkman (1849): The Harvard- was really no more that needed to be said educated aristocrat’s account of about it.” his 1846 trek through the Great Whether he was being disingenuous or Plains and Black Hills to the merely throwing other writers off the trail, Rockies. McMurtry four years later published his Roughing It by Mark Twain classic Lonesome Dove, a Pulitzer Prize- (1872): Tongue-in-cheek mem- winning novel that emerged as the lead steer oir of young Samuel Clemens’s 1861–1867 in the 2020 list of top Western novels as travels across the Western frontier. compiled by active former WWA presidents. The American Fur Trade of the Far West After earning a 1986 Spur Award, Lone- by Hiram Martin Chittenden (1902): The some Dove became the basis for a 1989 televi- book that Owen Wister Award recipient Win sion miniseries that received seven Emmy Blevins said “laid the base for scholarship Awards and prompted the New York Times about Rocky Mountain fur trapping.” to note it “revitalized both the miniseries The Frontier in American History by and Western genres, both of which had been Frederick Jackson Turner (1920): Collection Cactus Book Shop in San Angelo, considered dead for several years.
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