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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	L. Ron Hubbard	5,206
2	Cormac McCarthy	2,826
3	Elmore Leonard	799
4	Louis L'Amour	684
5	Larry McMurtry	639
6	Zane Grey	600
7	Karl May	347
8	John D. MacDonald	330
9	Leigh Brackett	195
10	Owen Wister	142
11	Max Brand	111
12	William W. Johnstone	107
13	Dorothy M. Johnson	102
14	List of Western fiction authors	98
15	Al Sarrantonio	84
16	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro	80
17	Ernest Haycox	73
18	Elmer Kelton	69
19	Jack Schaefer	67
20	Walter Van Tilburg Clark	66
21	Nigel Tranter	62
22	Oakley Hall	56
23	Brett Halliday	51
24	Donald Hamilton	48
25	Don Bendell	47
26	Diana Ossana	46
27	Loren D. Estleman	44
28	J. T. Edson	44
29	Don Coldsmith	42
30	Emerson Hough	42
31	Thomas C. Lea, III	37
32	Terry C. Johnston	34
33	Glendon Swarthout	33
34	Luke Short (writer)	31
35	Ralph Compton	31
36	Henry Wilson Allen	31
37	Craig Johnson (author)	30
38	Frederick Manfred	27
39	Ralph Cotton	27
40	John Myers Myers	25
41	Clair Huffaker	22
42	Tom W. Blackburn	22
43	Lauran Paine	22
44	Roger Margason	22
45	Thomas Piccirilli	22
46	Lee Hoffman	20
47	Andy Adams	19
48	Michael McGarrity	19
49	Chad Oliver	18
50	Robert Flynn (author)	18
51	Richard S. Wheeler	17
52	Richard Jessup	17
53	Fred Grove	16
54	Gordon D. Shirreffs	16
55	Kjell Hallbing	15
56	Will Cook (writer)	14
57	Frank Gruber	14
58	Milton Lott	14
59	Janice Woods Windle	14
60	Frank H. Spearman	13
61	Richard Wormser	13
62	Frank O'Rourke	12
63	James J. Griffin	12
64	Leonard Frank Meares	12
65	John H. Reese	12
66	Bob Cherry	11
67	Todhunter Ballard	11
68	William Colt MacDonald	11
69	Stanley Krueber	11
70	B. M. Bower	10
71	Matt Braun	10
72	Gary Svee	10
73	Marilyn Durham	10
74	T. V. Olsen	9
75	Giles A. Lutz	9
76	Lewis B. Patten	9
77	William MacLeod Raine	9
78	John W. Cunningham	9
79	Raymond S. Spears	9
80	Wiesław Wernic	8
81	Ronald Kirkbride	8
82	John Edward Ames	8
83	Frank Chester Robertson	8
84	Hugh Pendexter	8
85	Garland Roark	8
86	David F. Case	7
87	Mel Hague	6
88	Terry W. Burns	6
89	Robert J. Conley	6
90	William Robert Cox	6
91	Wade Everett	6
92	Wayne D. Overholser	6
93	Fritz Steuben	6
94	Jack Lewis (screenwriter)	6
95	Peter Brandvold	less than 5 views
96	Jon Sharpe	less than 5 views
97	Western fiction authors	less than 5 views
98	Kai Starr	less than 5 views
99	J. Edward Leithead	less than 5 views
100	Oscar J. Friend	less than 5 views
101	W. C. Tuttle	less than 5 views
102	Derek Rutherford	less than 5 views

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