Blood, Glory & Greed in Texas

Over the last century, critics have struggled with categorizing the literature of the American West, sweeping laureates of the genre such as Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Mari Sandoz and Willa Cather into one category of literati, while easily grouping the ever-popular Zane Grey, Max Brand and Louis L’Amour as authors of “Classic Westerns.” Baltimore native and Texas resident Philipp Meyer has written a major work, The Son (Ecco/HarperCollins, $27.99), of pedigree and prose that should s