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Ernest James Haycox (October 1, 1899 – October 13, 1950), was an American writer of Western fiction.

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Biography

Haycox was born in Portland, Oregon, to William James Haycox and the former Martha Burghardt on October 1, 1899.[1] After receiving an education in the local schools of both Washington state and Oregon, he enlisted in the United States Army in 1915 and was stationed along the Mexican border in 1916.[1] During World War I he was in Europe, and after the war he spent one year at Reed College in Portland.[1] In 1923, Haycox graduated from the University of Oregon with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism,[2] where he also started writing under professor W. F. G. Thatcher.[1] In 1925, Haycox married Jill M. Chord, and they would have two children.[1]

He published two dozen novels and about 300 short stories, many of which appeared first in pulp magazines in the early 1920s. During the 1930s and 40s, he was a regular contributor to Collier's Weekly and The Saturday Evening Post. Fans of his work included Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, and the latter once wrote, "I read The Saturday Evening Post whenever it has a serial by Ernest Haycox."[1]

His story "Stage to Lordsburg" (1937) was made into the movie Stagecoach (1939), directed by John Ford and featuring John Wayne in the role that made him a star. The novel Trouble Shooter (1936), originally serialized in Collier's, was the basis for the movie Union Pacific (1939), directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea. Haycox wrote the screenplay for Montana (1950), directed by Ray Enright, which stars Alexis Smith and Errol Flynn.

In 2005 the Western Writers of America voted Haycox one of the 24 best Western authors of the Twentieth Century.

Familiar Quotations

No sensible man watches his feet hit ground. He looks ahead to see what kind of ground they'll hit next. - Pioneer Loves. Call This Land Home

Selected works

Note: Many of Haycox's novels and stories have been published under more than one title. The list below shows the titles used for the original publications.

Novels

  • Free Grass (1928)
  • Chaffee of Roaring Horse (1929)
  • Whispering Range (1931)
  • Starlight Rider (1933)
  • Riders West (1934)
  • Rough Air (1934)
  • The Silver Desert (1935)
  • Trail Smoke (1936)
  • Trouble Shooter (1936)
  • Deep West (1937)
  • Sundown Jim (1937)
  • Man in the Saddle (1938)
  • The Border Trumpet (1939)
  • Saddle and Ride (1939)
  • Rim of the Desert (1941)
  • Trail Town (1941)
  • Alder Gulch (1941)
  • Action by Night (1942)
  • The Wild Bunch (1943)
  • Bugles in the Afternoon (1943)
  • Canyon Passage (1945)
  • Long Storm (1946)
  • Head of the Mountain (1952)
  • The Earthbreakers (1952)
  • The Adventurers (1954)

Short stories and novellas

1920s
  • "The Trap Lifters" (1922)
  • "The Coolie Catcher" (1923)
  • "A Burnt Creek Yuletide" (1924)
  • "The Ditch to Freedom" (1924)
  • "Budd Dabbles in Homesteads" (1924)
  • "A Wooing in the Wilds" (1925)
  • "Prairie Yule" (1925)
  • "Light of the West" (1926)
  • "Frontier Blood" (1926)
  • "The Code" (1926)
  • "The Timberline Fugitive" (1927)
  • "The Gun-Shot Path" (1927)
  • "Winds of Rebellion" (1927)
  • "Under Western Skies" (1927)
  • "The Belle of Sevensticks" (1927)
  • "A Rider of the High Mesa" (1927)
  • "A New Deal in Sevensticks" (1927)
  • "One Night in Blackfoot" (1927)
  • "The Man From Montana" (1927)
  • "Bound South" (1928)
  • "Starlight and Gunflame" (1928)
  • "The Octopus of Pilgrim Valley" (1928)
  • "The Desert Eye" (1928)
  • "Secret River" (1928)
  • "A Municipal Feud" (1928)
  • "The Sheriff of Crooked Rib" (1928)
  • "The Grim Canyon" (1928)
  • "Guns Up!" (1928)
  • "Sevensticks Gambler" (1928)
  • "The Bandit from Paloma County" (1929)
  • "Renegade Law" (1929)
  • "Brand Fires on the Ridge" (1929)
  • "The Return of a Fighter" (1929)
  • "Fighting Man" (1929)
  • "Invitation by Bullet" (1929)
  • "Discovery Gulch" (1929)
  • "Night Raid" (1929)
  • "Wild Horse Lode" (1929)
  • "By Rope and Lead" (1929)
1930s
  • "The Killers" (1930)
  • "Pistol Gap" (1930)
  • "Dolorosa, Here I Come" (1930)
  • "Son of the West" (1930)
  • "Crossfire" (1931)
  • "Manhunt" (1931)
  • "The Gun Singer" (1931)
  • "Old Tough Heart" (1931)
  • "Ride Out!" (1931)
  • "Smoke Talk" (1931)
  • "McQuestion Rides" (1931)
  • "The Feudists" (1932)
  • "The Fighting Call" (1932)
  • "The Roaring Hour" (1932)
  • "Hang Up My Gun" (1932)
  • "Blizzard Camp" (1932)
  • "The Kid From River Red" (1932)
  • "Found Out" (1932)
  • "Breed of the Frontier" (1932)
  • "Farewell, Laramie, Farewell!" (1932)
  • "Their Own Lights" (1933)
  • "The Decision" (1933)
  • "At Wolf Creek Tavern" (1933)
  • "The Hour of Fury" (1933)
  • "Gambler’s Heart" (1933)
  • "Odd Chance" (1933)
  • "Second-Money Man" (1933)
  • "Smoky Pass" (1934)
  • "Pride" (1934)
  • "High Wind" (1935)
  • "Way Up the Bozeman" (1935)
  • "Make Me Believe" (1935)
  • "Born to Conquer" (1936)
  • "The Stranger" (1936)
  • "Proud People" (1938)
  • "Woman Hungry" (1937)
  • "Stage to Lordsburg" (1937)
  • "Free Land" (1937)
  • "Scout Detail" (1938)
  • "This Woman and This Man" (1938)
  • "Down the River" (1938)
  • "A Man Needs an Answer" (1938)
  • "An Interval in Youth" (1938)
  • "Blizzard" (1939)
  • "Fourth Son" (1939)
  • "The Long Years" (1939)
  • "A Girl Must Wait" (1939)
1940s and later
  • "The Drifter" (1940)
  • "The Silver Saddle" (1940)
  • "Change of Station" (1940)
  • "Room 515" (1940)
  • "On Don Jaime Street" (1940)
  • "Some Were Brave" (1940)
  • "Weight of Command" (1940)
  • "Martinet" (1941)
  • "The Quarrel" (1941)
  • "Dispatch for the General" (1942)
  • "Second Choice" (1942)
  • "Faithfully, Judith" (1942)
  • "Always Remember" (1942)
  • "A Young Man’s Fancy" (1942)
  • "Skirmish at Dry Fork" (1942)
  • "Time of Change" (1942)
  • "The Colonel’s Choice" (1942)
  • "Deep Water" (1943)
  • "Paycheck" (1943)
  • "Only the Best" (1943)
  • "From the Tuality" (1943)
  • "At Anselm's" (1944)
  • "Departure" (1946)
  • "Snow in the Canyon" (1948)
  • "Mrs. Benson" (1948)
  • "Custom of the Country" (1948)
  • "Dead-Man Trail" (1948)
  • "Night of Parting" (1948)
  • "Call This Land Home" (1948)
  • "Things Remembered" (1949)
  • "Violent Interlude" (1949)
  • "Outlaw’s Reckoning" (1949)
  • "The Land That Women Hate" (1949)
  • "The Inscrutable Man" (1951)

Story and novella collections

  • Outlaw (1939)
  • Murder on the Frontier (1942)
  • Pioneer Loves (1948)
  • Prairie Guns (1949)
  • The Last Rodeo (1949)
  • Rough Justice (1950)
  • By Rope and Lead (1951)
  • Rawhide Range (1952)
  • Vengeance Trail (1955)
  • Gun Talk (1956)
  • Brand Fires on the Ridge (1959)
  • Sixgun Duo (1965)
  • Trigger Trio (1966)
  • Burnt Creek: A Frontier Duo (1996)
  • New Hope (1998)

Filmography

  • Union Pacific (1939), based on Trouble Shooter (1936)
  • Stagecoach (1939), based on "Stage to Lordsburg" (1937)
  • Sundown Jim (1942), based on Sundown Jim (1937)
  • Abilene Town (1946), based on Trail Town (1941)
  • Canyon Passage (1946), based on Canyon Passage (1945)
  • Man in the Saddle (1951), based on Man in the Saddle (1938)
  • Bugles in the Afternoon (1952), based on Bugles in the Afternoon (1943)
  • The Far Country (1954), based on Alder Gulch (1941)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Corning, Howard M. (1989) Dictionary of Oregon History. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 110.
  2. ^ Five join SOJC's Hall of Achievement

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