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Author: Louis L'Amour

Title: Hondo

Genre: Western

Publication Date: 1952 Won the Fawcett Gold Medal 1952

Number of Pages: 178

Geographical Setting:  Southwest Terr. Apache Country 

Time Period: Post Civil War

Series (If applicable): No

Plot Summary:  A lone man that only has his pony, dog and gun finds a beautiful woman and a young boy who needs a father in his life.  The boy's deadbeat father  is found by Hondo and there is a showdown!  There is also Apache on the Warpath and an bloodthirsty warrior is vying for power.

Subject Headings: Apache Indians- Wars- Women Pioneers - Arizona

Appeal 3 terms that best describe this book: : Action, Justice, Moral and Bromance.
Similar Authors and Works (why are they similar?):

Louis L'Amour  The Haunted Mesa.  This is written by the most notable name in the western genre but it is fantasy.  Here we have the western formula; likeable man solves a problem with violence (with a rifle) and saves somebody but within the realm of parallel universes.

Cindy Bonner Lily.  Cindy is known for combining romance, western and historical fiction and it is done via a women's voice. In Lily a 15 year old girl falls in love with an outlaw.  She exchanges her boring farm life for her new outlaw life.  This is a first in a series that deals with young girl and watches her grow as a person.

Elizabeth Fackler's Billy the Kid: The Legend of El Chivato.  Elizabeth writes in the women's lives genre.  The aforementioned title is more western than women lives but the women are more developed and have a brain and gives a better perspective of what really went down in the west.
 

3 Relevant Non-Fiction Works and Authors

Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear were state historians for several western states and they are best known for the First North American series.   These are historical fiction but are quite accurate.

The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin



3 Relevant Fiction Works and Authors
 Zane Grey- Riders of the Purple Sage
 Terry Johnston--Carry the Wind
Kathleen O'Neal Gear--Sand in the Wind