Author Miles Swarthout’s The Last Shootist (Forge Books, $24.99), a much-anticipated sequel to his father Glendon Swarthout’s best-selling novel The Shootist (Doubleday, 1975) is an excellent Western novel that seamlessly picks up the complex characters and transitioning West of El Paso, Texas, that made the elder Swarthout’s original so popular. Miles’ prose is lean with richly developed characters, tight dialogue and well-researched historic border towns and mining camps of Texas,
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