In American Westerns, the main characters are most often gunfighters, lawmen, ranchers and dancehall girls. Civil professionals such as doctors, engineers a

Covers wide range of popular British and American fiction and film including Westerns, spy fiction, science fiction and crime narratives.

From the Preface: The purpose of this book is to explain the Western's popularity. While the Western itself may seem simple (it isn't quite), an explanation of

Nik Morton has been writing for over forty years, honing his craft. He writes genre fiction, whether that s science fiction, horror, crime, thriller, romance or

This book works to complicate and push against common arguments that the Western from its inception is an anti-feminist genre. By focusing on representations of