Willy Vlautin: 5 great books set in the West

Willy Vlautin, author of The Motel Life, named these "five great books set in the West" for a Q & A with Powell's.Winter in The Blood by James WelchOx-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg ClarkSweet Promised Land by Robert LaxaltMontana 1948 by Larry WatsonTrue Grit by Charles Portis Read more of the Q & A at Powell's.Here's how Vlautin described his novel:The Motel Life is a novel set in Reno,