Here’s a new book that may be of interest to R.E. Howard scholars, who might want to see how well this author’s framework fits with Howard’s stories and the wider western pulp tradition. Cowboy Courage: Westerns and the Portrayal of Bravery examines the three types of bravery and courage to be found in the U.S. screen westerns made from 1946 to about 1964.

Judging by the free-sample introduction, the book is written by someone old enough to remember the original reception of the big screen westerns. He’s a psychologist but he doesn’t seem in thrall to the frameworks of the Jung/Freud psychoanalysis era, or mired in the tar-pits of modern leftist politics.

Preface
Introduction
1. The Quality of Courage
2. Redemption
3. Love, Friendship and Bonds to the Community
4. Justice
5. Temperance
6. Growing Up and Growing Old
7. Being Authentic
8. The Revisionist Western
9. Lonesome Dove
Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography
Index