Glendon Swarthout's The Shootist First Edition Marks the End of the American Western
[Western Americana] Glendon Swarthout, The Shootist. First edition. Doubleday and Company: New York, 1975. Measures 5.75" x 8" inches. 186 pages. A classic western, The Shootist follows celebrated gunfighter JB Brooks as he confronts his own mortality, a metaphor for the Western genre also showing its age. The book was.....
