The End of the West

Since Owen Wister’s The Virginian was published in 1902, Western novelists have returned to the era of the transitional West, which, according to New Mexico author Max Evans, is where “the friction occurs, and where there’s friction, there’s smoke and fire.” Master storyteller Loren D. Estleman’s 70th novel, The Long High Noon, is filled with the smouldering embers of an Old West that novelists have been stoking for poignancy and irony for decades. These authors include Estleman�