Paul Varner is professor of English at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. He is also the author of Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Cinema (Scarecrow Press, 2008).

Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Literature is an installment in Scarecrow’s Historical Dictionaries of Language and the Arts series. Author Varner, professor of English at Abilene Christian University in Texas, has previously edited Westerns: Paperback Novels and Movies from Hollywood (Cambridge Scholars, 2007) and authored the Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Cinema (Scarecrow, 2008). Varner has followed the standard structure of the series and includes a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography in addition to the alphabetically arranged entries....As with other books in this series, the bibliography is a valuable resource for researchers, including as it does primary sources (the westerns), critical and theoretical approaches to westerns, historical studies of westerns, casebooks of criticism, and biographical and critical studies of individual authors. This work is recommended for academic and large public libraries.