Below you'll find a list of the books' influences from music, film, televsion and literature
comics fans, western fans, fans of western comics
Johnny Cash, Ennio Morricone, The Eagles
Once Upon a Time in the West, Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, The Searchers, True Grit, Last Man Standing, Tombstone, Unforgiven, High Plains Drifter, Hang 'em High, Dead Man, Wild Bill, The Long Riders, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Magnificent Seven, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, The Wild Bunch, Chato's Land, The White Buffalo, Django, Open Range, Wyatt Earp (1994), Young Guns, Geronimo, The Cisco Kid (1994)
Deadwood, The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid, The Simpsons (specifically, that one episode when Homer eats the Guatemalan Insanity Pepper)
The Caballero's Way, by O. Henry; The Teachings of Don Juan, by Carlos Casteneda; The Gunslinger, by Stephan King; The Drawing of the Three, by Stephan King; Hombre, by Elmore Leonard; The Bounty Hunters, by Elmore Leonard; Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe; Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Cival War, by T.J. Stiles; The West of Billy the Kid, by Frederick W. Nolan; Tex, by Gian Luigi Bonelli; The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty, by Gabriel Benson and Mike Hawthorne; Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities, by Eric Powell and Kyle Hotz; Western Tales of Terror, by various; Loveless, by Brian Azzarello, Marcelo Frusin and Danijel Zezelj; El Diablo, by Brian Azzarello and Danijel Zezelj; Spaghetti Western, by Scott Morse; The Long Haul, by Anthony Johnston and Eduardo Barreto; Wyatt Earp: Dodge City, by Chuck Dixon and Enrique Villagran; Belle Starr: Queen of Bandits, by Mark Ricketts and Steve Buccellato; Jonah Hex, by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti and Luke Ross; Seven Soldiers of Victory, by Grant Morrison and J.H. Williams III
Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah, Walter Hill, David Milch