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Revisiting John Lennon’s Beatle Island and the outlaws of Western fiction
Earlier this week, I published a story about Kevin Barry, the Booker Award-nominated Irish author whose terrific new book, “The Heart in Winter,” is a Western set in Montana circa 1891. Barry’s book put me in mind of other Westerns that have made an impact …