Monte Walsh, from Victor Niederhoffer
Here's an alternate view of the Monte Walsh movie which I consider a loathsome comedy whereas the story is really a tragedy and the best business novel of all time.
Stefan Jovanovich writes:
In the preface to the 1980 edition of the novel, Schaefer wrote: "among our nearest New Mexican neighbours was a young man named Archie West who to my mind was (and still is) in many respects, certainly in appearance and temperament and cattle-country capability and simple human decency, precisely my Monte Walsh."
An interviewer claims that the author's favorite was The Canyon (1953), "in which the protagonist is a lone Cheyenne warrior, Little Bear, who opposes war and must take his stand between the customs of his tribe, nature, and the necessity of community."