Could you recommend me some good old west mysteries?

Are you familiar with the Wild Bunch? Supposedly Butch Cassidy escaped America and settled down in Bolivia.

Also in Arizona there’s supposedly a hidden gold mine where a miner wouldn’t let anyone know of its location but left clues. The believers believe the guy because he did in fact bring gold to be weighed and sold to various markets and supposedly this guy didn’t want to abuse the mine.

Tony Hillerman’smysteries aren’t set in the Old West; they’re more contemporary but they are set in the West and a number deal with Indian archaeology and the culture of the West. I think you’d enjoy them. You might also try Zane Grey although they are not mysteries.

Don’t forget Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry.
Not necessarily a mystery, but an excellent western novel nonetheless.

I second Tony Hillerman’s work. Great stories, and lots of Native American (particularly Navajo) culture in them.

If you can find it, Wayne Groves Barrows’ “A Child of the Plains” was a good book from 1910. My copy is only barely held together. In fact, many of the pages are not held together, and it probably won’t survive another reading, but it was great fun putting together the pieces of that puzzle.

Thank you guys all! Your recommendation are great, especially the Tony Hillerman’s series.
@pleiades: could you be a little more specific about the Arizona fact? Like the man’s name or the time of the event?

I suspect that @pleiades is referring to the Lost Dutchman’s Mine (the Wikipedia URL had to be TinyURL’d) which is supposed to be somewhere in Arizona, east of Phoenix.