The Western Reinvented. Again.

Australian author Greg Matthews s 1993 novel, Power In The Blood, tells the story of three siblings in the American Old West, at least one of whom is a homicidal psychopath. For my money, it s a much more daring piece of fiction than The Sisters Brothers. (Matthews s 1985 novel, The Heart of the Country, may be even better.) Douglas C. Jones s 1979 novel, Winding Stair, is an excellent fictional account of the Rufus Buck Gang s brief reign of terror much better, in fact, than the recent film The Harder They Fall, which stars Idris Elba as a re-imagined (that is, wholly fictionalized) Rufus Buck. And Jones s 1991 novel, The Search for Temperance Moon, is an equally skillful fictionalized account of the murder of Belle Starr.

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This is what I love. A whole bunch of Westerns I’ve never heard of and which I reckin I can get on Kindle. Hee haw. Good movie review as well. I watched Power of the Dog for ten minutes but found it boring. Maybe I’ll give it another try. My attention span ain’t what it used to be, pardner.