The Searchers

Centauros del desierto Novela publicada en 1954 por Alan Le May, ambientada en la década de 1870 en Texas. Época de la frontera en la que convivían colonos pioneros y los indios norteamericanos. Esta convivencia no era pacífica y ante la presión de los colonos, los indios se rebelaban arrasando pequeñ......more

SO MUCH BETTER than the movie!......more

Reading The Searchers Alan Le May's 1954 novel "The Searchers" is a victim of its own success. John Ford adapted the novel into the glorious 1956 film of the same name starring John Wayne while Le May's novel went out of print and was almost forgotten. Fortunately, Le May's novel is accessible on Kin......more

Not just one of the great western novels, but a great American novel. Of course it has been popularized by the John Ford movie staring John Wayne and other fine actors. The film follows the first part of the book closely enough that people who have watched the movie are in familiar territory. There......more

If you are interested in the last years of the native Americans in Texas, and you want a highly nuanced, well-written and enthralling story to go with it, this is your book. I found it ever so much better than Lonesome Dove and The Son. LeMay does not try to make any of his characters into heros or......more