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Ernest James Haycox (October 1, 1899 – October 13, 1950) was an American writer of Western fiction. Haycox in 1923
Ernest Haycox was an important figure in the development of the popular Western. Diligent, prolific, and ambitious, he wrote twenty-four novels, nearly three hundred short stories and serial installments, and dozens of essays.
Complete order of Ernest Haycox books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
Excellent bibliographies of Haycox' work are in Ernest Haycox Fiction ( A Checklist, Call Number 25, Fall 1963-Spring 1964, and Ernest Haycox, Stephen L. Tanner, Twayne Publishers, New York, 1996. that featured western Indians and cattle drivers in peaceful harmony.
When Ernest Haycox applied his University of Oregon journalism education to western literature, he reinvented the genre. In place of flowery bursts of sentiment and sensationalism, Haycox offered clear, lean, and active prose.
Ernest Haycox has 331 books on Goodreads with 2832 ratings. Ernest Haycox’s most popular book is Bugles in the Afternoon.
Ernest Haycox was an important figure in the development of the popular Western. Diligent, prolific, and ambitious, he wrote twenty-four novels, nearly three hundred short stories and serial installments, and dozens of essays.
Feb 26, 2018 · Ernest Haycox died in 1950, but he continues to cast a long shadow over Western fiction. In Ernest Haycox and the Western (University Press of Oklahoma, $29.95), Richard W. Etulain gives us a literary history of the author’s work, with special emphasis on two.
The early fiction of Ernest Haycox, which also appeared in Western Story, conforms to the often formulaic conventions of the Western. But Haycox is widely regarded as the first writer of the genre to extend and even challenge many of its conventions.
This exhibit celebrates the life and writings of Oregon author Ernest Haycox, consummate writer of Western fiction whose action stories are about romantic cowboys, ranchers, U.S. marshals, farmers and pioneer women in typical western settings such as frontier towns, army outposts and sprawling cattle ranches.
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