FICTION Gals with Gumption: Tenacious Heroines Visual Inspiration - Landscape Art  Bohemian Girl, by Terese Svoboda  The American Landscape Tradition: a Study and Guns for Hire and Hardscrabble Heroes:  Crown of Dust, by Mary Volmer Gallery of Paintings, by Joseph S. Czestochowski Adventures & Untamed Characters  The Daughter's Walk, by Jane Kirkpatrick 758.1 CZESTOCHOWSKI  The Big Sky, by A. B. Guthrie  Fearless: a novel of Sarah Bowman, by Lucia Robson  Landscape Photography: from Snapshots to Great  The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy  In Calamity's Wake, by Natalee Caple Shots, by Rob Sheppard 778.936 SHEPPARD All The Pretty Horses  Missy, by Chris Hannan  Mastering Landscape Photography: the Luminous- The Crossing  Once Upon a River, by Bonnie Jo Campbell Landscape Essays, by Alain Briot 778.93 BRIOT Cities of the Plain  The Passage, by Justin Cronin  For more inspiration, try subject searches  Desperadoes, by Ron Hansen  Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward for landscape photography, landscape   The Whip, by Karen Kondazian painting, or landscape in art. Far Bright Star, by Robert Olmstead  Little Big Man, by Thomas Berger  Winter's Bone, by Daniel Woodrell Culinary Inspiration - Cooking on the Range  The Outcasts, by Kathleen Kent  Cooking the Cowboy Way: Recipes Inspired by Camp-  Road to Reckoning, by Robert Lautner Lawmen & White Hats: Rangers & Marshals fires, Chuck Wagons, and Ranch Kitchens, by Grady  Shavetail, by Thomas Cobb  Jon Land's Caitlin Strong series Spears and June Naylor 641.5976 SPEARS  The Son, by Philipp Meyer  Larry Sweazy's Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger series  Cowboy Cocktails: Boot-Scooting' Beverages and  The Thicket, by Joe Lansdale  Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, and its prequels Tasty Vittles from the Wild West, by Grady Spears Comanche Moon and Dead Man's Walk Home on the Range: Tales from the Frontier 641.874 SPEARS  Lone Star Ranger, by Zane Grey  Little Cowpokes Cookbook, by Zac Williams  Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner  Raylan, by Elmore Leonard J 641.5 WILLIAMS  Butcher's Crossing, by John Williams  A Tale Out of Luck, by Willie Nelson  The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier,  Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather  Elmer Kelton's Texas Rangers series and other books by Ree Drummond 641.5976 DRUMMOND  Doc, by Mary Doria Russell

 Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder Urban Homesteading -  Roughing It, by Mark Twain NONFICTION Be Self-Sufficient & Live Like a Pioneer  A Sudden Country, by Karen Fisher  The City Homesteader: Self-Sufficiency on any Square

Biographies from Both Sides of the Law Footage, by Scott Meyer 640 MEYER Classic and Not-so-Classic Westerns  Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Fron-  Made From Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a  Buffalo Girls, by Larry McMurtry tier Marshal Bass Reeves, by Art T. Burton 92 REEVES Handmade Life, by Jenna Woginrich 640 WOGINRICH  The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour  The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie  The Modern-Day Pioneer: Simple Living in the 21st  Deadwood, by Pete Dexter Oakley, & the Beginnings of Superstardom, by Larry Century, by Charlotte Denholtz  Law of the Desert Born, a graphic novel based on a McMurtry 920 MCMURTRY  Modern Pioneering: More Than 150 Recipes, Projects, story by Louis L'Amour, adapted by Charles Santino  Rooster: the Life and Times of the real Rooster and Skills for a Self-Sufficient Life, by Georgia Pellegrini  Riders of the Purple Sage, by Zane Grey Cogburn, the Man who Inspired True Grit, by Brett  The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick DeWitt Cogburn 92 COGBURN Tracking and Survival Skills  Spoon, Robert Greer  Wyatt Earp: a Vigilante Life, Andrew C. Isenberg  The Complete Wilderness Training Book, by Hugh  The Virginian, by Owen Wister 92 EARP McManners 796.5 McManners

 Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills, by John Something for Everyone! If you like a little Weird in Native Americans in the 19th Century McPherson 796.5 McPherson your West, try Six-Gun Tarot, by R. S. Belcher, a thriller that  Blood and Thunder: an Epic of the American West, by  The Science and Art of Tracking, by Tom Brown, Jr. combines supernatural elements with a classic Western atmos- Hampton Sides 978.02 SIDES 591.5 BROWN phere. If you like that one and are ready for more werewolves  Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American  Wilderness Survival Handbook, by Michael Pewtherer in your Western, try The Guns of Santa Sangre, by Eric Red! West, 1846-1890, by Larry McMurtry 978.02 MCMURTRY 613.69 PEWTHERER Works by Charles Portis Movies and Music

Film Adaptations of Feature Films—DVD Fiction: the Book & Sequels—  Cheyenne Autumn  Norwood (1966) DVD  Dances with Wolves Rustle up  Django Unchained  True Grit (1968)  True Grit (1969)  The Outlaw Josey Wales   True Grit (2010) Also available in:  Open Range  Rooster Cogburn (1975)  Audiobook  The Quick and the Dead some good

 Large Print  The Searchers Music—CD  Shoot Out  Espanol: Valor de Ley  True Grit score by Carter  Unforgiven  The Dog of the South (1979) Burwell—features music reads!  Justified (tv series) based on 19th c. hymns, “the  Masters of Atlantis (1985) kind of songs Mattie would  Gringos (1991) Documentaries—DVD sing if she had time to sing”  The Real West

 Wild Horse, Wild Ride Short pieces: Enjoying True Grit & the Big Read?  Escape Velocity: a Charles Portis Try some of these suggestions for Miscellany  Portis has contributed stories and articles JMRL invites all book lovers in Central Virginia to join to The Saturday Evening Post, the Atlan- THE BIG READ throughout March 2014. Read and tic Monthly, the Oxford American, and discuss True Grit by Charles Portis and participate in Further programs about the book, its themes, and its author. the New Yorker—find these in our online databases Reading For updates and information: jmrl.org/bigread

THE BIG READ is a program of This list of reading suggestions is just the the National Endowment for beginning! Find an expanded list and the Arts designed to revitalize the role of literature in Ameri- links to online resources at can culture. The Big Read jmrl.org/wiki/True_Grit. brings together partners from across the country to encourage We’ve got lists of related books for kids and citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment. teens, too, so the whole family can THE BIG READ is supported by rustle up some good reads! the Art and Jane Hess Fund of the Library Endowment.