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  1. E.L. Doctorow. Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the time he is through and has ridden off, Hard Times is a smoking ruin. The de facto mayor, Blue, takes in two survivors of the carnage ...

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  2. Welcome to Hard Times is the debut novel of American author E. L. Doctorow, published in 1960.It is set in a small settlement in the Dakota Territory named Hard Times. After a reckless drifter comes into Hard Times and terrorizes the town with rape, murder and arson, the survivors lead an effort to restore it.

    • E. L. Doctorow
    • United States
    • 1960
    • 1960
  3. Sep 11, 2007 · Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the time he is through and has ridden off, Hard Times is a smoking ruin. The de facto mayor, Blue, takes in two survivors of the carnage–a boy, Jimmy ...

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    • Random House Trade Paperbacks
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  5. Nov 17, 2010 · E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World.

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  6. Welcome to Hard Times (film) Welcome to Hard Times. (film) Welcome to Hard Times is a 1967 American Western film directed by Burt Kennedy and starring Henry Fonda as the leader of a dying town that is too weak to stand up to a brute terrorizing the few remaining residents. [1] It is based upon a novel by the same name by E. L. Doctorow.

  7. "Welcome to Hard Times" is an American Western, debut novel of E. L. Doctorow, published in 1960. It is of medium length and is fairly easily read and comprehended. It is a well written and rather dark novel. I enjoyed it very much. This is not a classic western of "good guys wearing white hats". It has a "Noir" aspect to it.

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    • E. L Doctorow
  8. About Welcome to Hard Times. Here is E. L. Doctorow’s debut novel, a searing allegory of frontier life that sets the stage for his subsequent classics. Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage.

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