Excellent.
He wrote wonderfully about the true grit and courage of cowboys and the cowboy heritage.
Virtue and determination of those men and tough times, gawd, so accurately depicted in Lonesome Dove. My university has a Lonesome Dove western historical display, with all sorts of memorabilia from the movie, from weapons to the wood door where the body of Gus was carried. Many items donated by Robert Duval and McMurtry.
He did NOT demystify the West.
Elmore Leonard’s westerns, not as well known as his crime novels, are more like demystification.