The Adventurers
Author : Ernest Haycox
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 1954
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Author : Ernest Haycox
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 1954
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Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806159219
Western fans today may not recognize the name Ernest Haycox (1899–1950), but they know his work. John Ford turned one of his stories into the iconic film Stagecoach, and the whole Western literary genre still follows conventions that Haycox deftly mastered and reshaped. In this new book about Haycox’s literary career, Richard W. Etulain tells the engrossing story of his rise through the ranks of popular magazine and serial fiction to become one of the Western’s most successful creators. After graduating from the University of Oregon in 1923 with a degree in journalism, Haycox began his quest to break into New York’s pulp magazine scene, submitting dozens of stories before he began to make a living from his writing. By the end of the 1920s he had become a top writer for Western Story, Short Stories, and Adventure, among other popular weeklies and monthlies. Ernest Haycox and the Western traces Haycox’s path from rank beginner, to crack pulp writer, to regular contributor to Collier’s and the Saturday Evening Post. Etulain shows how Haycox experimented with techniques to deepen and broaden his Westerns, creating more introspective protagonists (Hamlet heroes), introducing new types of heroines (the brunette vixen, the blonde Puritan), and weaving greater historical realism into his plots. After reaching the height of success with his best-selling Custer novel, Bugles in the Afternoon (1944), Haycox moved away from the financially rewarding but artistically constricting Western formula—only to achieve his final coup with The Earthbreakers, a historical novel about the end of the Oregon Trail, published posthumously in 1952. Reconstructing the career of a popular literary giant, Ernest Haycox and the Western restores Haycox to his rightful place in the history of Western literature.
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780806135663
In "Bugles in the Afternoon, " legendary Western writer Ernest Haycox relates a compelling tale of Custer's famed Seventh Cavalry and its fate at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in a balanced mix of action, exposition, and history. Originally published in 1943, this classic work is now back in print in a new paperback edition. Historian Richard W. Etulain examines the novel's history and Haycox's impact on a timeless genre in an original foreword.
Author : Ernest Haycox
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1447499565
Ernest Haycox’s 1937 short story, Stage to Lordsburg, was a bestseller and a classic of the Western genre. Popularised by the 1939 film adaptation Stagecoach, this Wild West tale vividly portrays Haycox’s setting and characters. Stage to Lordsburg follows a collection of characters as they journey from Tonto, Arizona Territory, to Lordsburg, New Mexico. A series of dangers and perils face the colourful group as they embark on the uncomfortable trip. Ernest Haycox presents a number of cliché Western characters and the point of view shifts between them as the short story progresses. This masterful tale by Ernest Haycox, a prolific writer of Western fiction, is not to be missed by fans of old cowboy narratives.
Author : Ernest Haycox
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 147339287X
"Man in the Saddle" tells the story of a small-time rancher resisting the efforts of a ranching magnate bent on buying him out and, when that fails, squeezing him out of business by any means possible. When pushed to the wall, the hero is forced to resort to gun-play in an attempt to secure his livelihood and the love of his life. A thrilling read packed with gritty Western attitude and gun-toting action, "Man in the Saddle" is a book not to be missed by any lover of Western narratives. Ernest Haycox (1899 - 1950), is famous for introducing a more complex, brooding hero into 'the Western' - arguably defining the genre for many years to come. Famous for undertaking careful historical research, Ernest Haycox crafts accurate portrayals of American history that are sure to thrill and entertain any reader. This book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Author : Ernest Haycox
Publisher : River City Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780891909774
Author : Dudley Nichols
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Feature films
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Author : Ernest Haycox
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
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Alder Gulch by Ernest Haycox is about a man who wants to become rich in gold country, but must confront a group of villains terrorizing Alder Gulch's miners. Excerpt: "ONE moment he was a cool man who viewed his chances for escape and found them full of risk; and then a night wind moved over the river with its odors of dark soil warmed by summer rain and the resin scent of firs and the acrid taint of brush fires, and when these rank flavors came to him he knew at once he was done with caution. He belonged to the land and the land summoned him."
Author : Molly Guptill Manning
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0544535170
This New York Times bestselling account of books parachuted to soldiers during WWII is a “cultural history that does much to explain modern America” (USA Today). When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned 100 million books. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops, gathering 20 million hardcover donations. Two years later, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million specially printed paperbacks designed for troops to carry in their pockets and rucksacks in every theater of war. These small, lightweight Armed Services Editions were beloved by the troops and are still fondly remembered today. Soldiers read them while waiting to land at Normandy, in hellish trenches in the midst of battles in the Pacific, in field hospitals, and on long bombing flights. This pioneering project not only listed soldiers’ spirits, but also helped rescue The Great Gatsby from obscurity and made Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, into a national icon. “A thoroughly engaging, enlightening, and often uplifting account . . . I was enthralled and moved.” — Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried “Whether or not you’re a book lover, you’ll be moved.” — Entertainment Weekly
Author : Ernest Haycox
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
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Head of the Mountain Range is a western adventure by Ernest Haycox. Haycox was an American writer of Western fiction. Excerpt: "The color of von Stern's eyes, a thick coffee brown, was a rich mud behind which his emotions lay well covered; even when they reached surface they were never entirely free from a certain hint of reserve. He had a grave and coppery face, he was rawboned and strong-muscled with handsome and curled black hair always a little tumbled about his head, and he dressed himself carefully and kept himself shaved and groomed; a diamond ring, the great stone held in a gold snake's-mouth mounting, circled the index finger of his left hand."