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Ernest James Haycox (October 1, 1899 – October 13, 1950) [1] was an American writer of Western fiction . Biography. Haycox was born in Portland, Oregon, to William James Haycox and the former Martha Burghardt on October 1, 1899. [2] .
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. In the 1930s and 1940s, he may have been Oregon's most widely acclaimed author of magazine fiction.
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Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission. Ernest Haycox (1899-1950) by Ernest Haycox, Jr. 2001. Born Ernest James Haycox in Portland, Oregon on Oct. 1, 1899, in a house or apartment on lower Caruthers Street. There is no record of the event ( no announcements, no birth certificate.
Aug 12, 2022 · Ernest Haycox (1899-1950) was a native of Portland and successor to Zane Grey in the development of the western novel. He launched his career in the 1920s by writing pieces for pulp magazines. Free Grass, his first novel, brought out in 1929, established his reputation in the literary genre.
Dec 17, 2017 · Ernest Haycox | Journalism and Communication. December 17, 2017. 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.
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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 breakthrough novels: The Wild Bunch (1943) and Bugles in the Afternoon (1944).
Aug 18, 2021 · Adapted from Oregon paperback scribe Ernest Haycox’s 1945 serial, the script is busy, wise and charming as almost every figure—freight mover Logan (Dana Andrews), conflicted bride-to-be Lucy ...
