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Ernest Haycox (1899–1950)

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Ernest Haycox was born in Portland, Oregon on October 1, 1899. He graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Oregon. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 20 novels, most of which were first serialized in Collier's Magazine or The Saturday Evening Post, and more than 300 short toon meer stories. His works include Trouble Shooter, The Earthbreakers, and The Adventurers. Several of his novels were adapted into movies including Stagecoach, Union Pacific, and Canyon Passage. He died from cancer on October 13, 1950 at the age of 51. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Ernest Haycox

The Adventurers (1954) 80 exemplaren
Bugles in the Afternoon (1944) 74 exemplaren
Long Storm (1946) 37 exemplaren
Deep West (1937) 37 exemplaren
Trail Town (1941) 36 exemplaren
Canyon Passage (1945) 36 exemplaren
The Wild Bunch (1943) 34 exemplaren
Alder Gulch (1941) 34 exemplaren
Four Great Novels of the West (1994) 31 exemplaren
Rim of the Desert (1940) 31 exemplaren
The Border Trumpet (1939) 30 exemplaren
Action By Night (1943) 29 exemplaren
Trail Smoke (1964) 26 exemplaren
Sundown Jim (1948) 26 exemplaren
Man in the Saddle (1938) 26 exemplaren
Starlight Rider (1933) 23 exemplaren
Saddle and Ride (1940) 23 exemplaren
The Earthbreakers (1952) 22 exemplaren
Stagecoach (1973) 19 exemplaren
A Rider of the High Mesa (1955) 17 exemplaren
Free Grass (1929) 16 exemplaren
Trouble Shooter (1937) 16 exemplaren
The Silver Desert (1961) 15 exemplaren
Riders West (1961) 14 exemplaren
Chaffee of Roaring Horse (1973) 14 exemplaren
The Feudists (1959) 14 exemplaren
Whispering Range (1973) 14 exemplaren
Return of a Fighter (1965) 13 exemplaren
Burnt Creek (1900) 11 exemplaren
Secret River (1955) 10 exemplaren
Head of the Mountain (1952) 10 exemplaren
Dead man range 10 exemplaren
New Hope (1998) 9 exemplaren
Murder on the Frontier (1996) 7 exemplaren
Sixgun Duo (1990) 6 exemplaren
Guns of Fury (1967) 6 exemplaren
Trigger Trio (1959) 6 exemplaren
The last rodeo (1949) 6 exemplaren
On the Prod (1957) 5 exemplaren
Frank Peace, Trouble Shooter (1963) 5 exemplaren
Les Pionniers (2021) 4 exemplaren
Guns Up (1972) 4 exemplaren
Best Western Stories (1960) 4 exemplaren
Born to Conquer (1999) 4 exemplaren
Prairie Guns (1956) 4 exemplaren
Wipe Out the Brierlys (1972) 4 exemplaren
Clint (1966) 4 exemplaren
Invitation By Bullet 3 exemplaren
Rawhide Range (1959) 2 exemplaren
Powder Smoke and Other Stories (1966) 2 exemplaren
Brand Fires on the Ridge (1990) 2 exemplaren
Grim Canyon 2 exemplaren
The Man from Montana (1964) 2 exemplaren
A Day in Town 1 exemplaar
One Star by Night 1 exemplaar
Blizzard Camp 1 exemplaar
The Roaring Hour 1 exemplaar
Fandango 1 exemplaar
Fourth Son 1 exemplaar
Good Marriage 1 exemplaar
Old Glory 1 exemplaar
Dead-Man Trail 1 exemplaar
Over the Straits 1 exemplaar
Rule by Power 1 exemplaar
One More River 1 exemplaar
Ryttare i natten 1 exemplaar
The Storm Raider 1 exemplaar
Canyon Pasage 1 exemplaar
Lone Rider 1 exemplaar
Frontier Blood (1974) 1 exemplaar
Rough Justice (1976) 1 exemplaar
Pioneer loves (1997) 1 exemplaar
Clouds on the Circle P (1995) 1 exemplaar
A Question of Blood 1 exemplaar
By rope and lead (1976) 1 exemplaar
Na Velké Pacifické (1995) 1 exemplaar
Outlaw 1 exemplaar
The Grim Canyon (1953) 1 exemplaar
Call This Land Home 1 exemplaar
Prairie Yule 1 exemplaar
Cry Deep, Cry Still 1 exemplaar
No Time for Dreams 1 exemplaar
Fighting Man (1994) 1 exemplaar
False Face 1 exemplaar
Stubborn People 1 exemplaar
Gun Talk 1 exemplaar
The Drums Roll 1 exemplaar
A Battle Piece 1 exemplaar
The Silver Saddle 1 exemplaar
Things Remembered 1 exemplaar
Rock-Bound Honesty 1 exemplaar

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Stagecoach [1939 film] (1939) — Original story — 183 exemplaren
The Arbor House Treasury of Great Western Stories (1982) — Medewerker — 101 exemplaren
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Gangbare naam
Haycox, Ernest
Officiële naam
Haycox, Ernest James
Geboortedatum
1899-10-01
Overlijdensdatum
1950-10-13
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Portland, Oregon, USA
Opleiding
University of Oregon
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author
screenwriter

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Well, I read this one in a single sitting. I enjoyed this one. It starts tense, erupts into a very long-pitched battle, and moves into the Western tropes I dig. Although, perhaps if the first few pages had been shortened by a few paragraphs the speed and intensity might have been pushed up a notch. I dunno. There is the cliché outsmarting the bad guys using the land part of the story, but no marks against it, I actually like this sort of thing, and the outcome was somewhat in question as I was going along (even though I know how most of these that are not grimdark end). There is an instance of chauvinism put into the mouth of the virtuous woman (trope) though, “a woman can’t help being weak. I don’t blame your men for not wanting me along.” Outside of this, there’s not anything else in this book that’s a collar tugger.
I would recommend this one if you’re looking for a fast-moving western story with minimum romance (the basic outline of one with that resolution left for after the ending), a tense opening, and plenty of gunfighting.
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Ranjr | Mar 15, 2024 |
Good as far as it goes, this wild West short story from 1937 can be a fun read. Ernest Haycox, an Oregon native, wrote many Western stories and clearly loved the genre. The prose is a little purple. (I would guess the author was drunk when he wrote much of it.) The point of view shifts from character to character too much. The Western characters are a bit clichéd: A hooker with a heart of gold is matched by a gunslinger with a heart of gold, and a colorful coachman, a gambler, an army officer's fiancée and a "drummer"--which means a liquor salesman--round out the cast, most without being particularly memorable.

The point of the story is that this kind of travel was extremely uncomfortable and dangerous. The author makes that point vividly. One of the otherwise colorless characters is most vivid and human in the way he dies (though, from what, exactly, we don't know!).

The story is historically difficult to place in a particular year or even decade. The principal, long-distance stage lines pretty much went out of business by 1869, soon replaced by railroads, but I am not sure about local stagecoach lines. The stagecoach in this story goes from a village called Tonto, Arizona (maybe in central Arizona? Gila County?) to the town of Lordsburg, on the southwestern edge of New Mexico. (A possible reason for such a route might have been that New Mexico had railroads before Arizona, and Lordsburg, relatively speaking, had one of the earliest train stations.)

A reference to Geronimo being on the warpath probably places this story no earlier than the 1870s and definitely no later than 1886 when Geronimo was captured for about the fifth and last time. There is also a reference in this story to "Al Schrieber's ranch," and there was a historical person named Al Sieber (but notice the difference in the names) who, from about 1868 to 1871, managed (but did not own) a ranch near Prescott, Arizona (which is nowhere near Lordsburg, New Mexico, as is the ranch in this story); but the difference in the names suggests that Haycox is being evocative here rather than informative.

Still, the lack of very many identifying historical references in this short story makes historical placement less problematic than is the case with the 1939 movie, "Stagecoach," which is based on this story. While the short story is sparing in its use of specific historical details, the movie gives so many historical details that, eventually, they become contradictory.

A few examples of Haycox's hypervivid prose are evinced in my notes on the text. I don't say his style is without charm, as when the author describes the dust falling off the rolling wheels of the coach as being like water--exactly the opposite substances standing in for each other: dust and water. It works there.
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MilesFowler | Jul 16, 2023 |
OK western novel about Custer fight, etc. Have not seen the movie.
 
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kslade | Dec 8, 2022 |
I haven't read a lot of Westerns - I think Shane was the last, back in High School. So not a lot to compare this to.

I was surprised by several things about this novel, first published in 1939.

First was the prose style, deeply involved with characters' inner states and emotions, and oddly indirect. People seem to express many things with their eyes and the twitching of their lips. Paragraphs of internal monologue jump from image to image and, in some places, leave the reader to interpret exatly what is going on.

Second was the focus on character rather than action. A mosaic of intense and intriguing characters spend many pages observing each other, speculating on each other, and, in true Victorian fashion, struggling to express or suppress their powerful feelings about each other. I was involved and entertained by this drawing room drama, reminiscient of Thomas Hardy or Anthony Trollope.

In fact -- again strange for a Western -- the action scenes were the most uninvolving. Fist fights and gun fights seem poorly described and fail to thrill. Near the end is a long stretch of chase, hunt, flight and battle over intricately described terrain that left me mostly confused and bored.

Overall I enjoyed the novel very much, but almost felt that the writer, by style and temperament, would be more at home writing a romance than a western.



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