Unromanticized Westerns

Unromanticized Westerns forgo the mythical qualities of early Western books to give a harsher, uglier, more realistic picture of what life in the old west was like. Despite the harsher, more realistic tone, unromanticized Westerns will have similar pacing and style to their more traditional counterparts but will muddy the classic "good versus evil" story often found in those books.

Western Sub genres:


 * Westerns


 * Picaresque Westerns

External Reading:

Historical Novels of the American Old West