Western fans today may not recognize the name Ernest Haycox (1899-1950), but they know his work. John Ford turned one of his stories into the iconic film Stagecoach, and the whole Western literary genre still follows conventions that Haycox deftly mastered and reshaped. In this new book about Haycox's literary career, Richard W. Etulain tells the engrossing story of his rise through the ranks of popular magazine and serial fiction to become one of the Western's most successful creators. After graduating from the University ...
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Western fans today may not recognize the name Ernest Haycox (1899-1950), but they know his work. John Ford turned one of his stories into the iconic film Stagecoach, and the whole Western literary genre still follows conventions that Haycox deftly mastered and reshaped. In this new book about Haycox's literary career, Richard W. Etulain tells the engrossing story of his rise through the ranks of popular magazine and serial fiction to become one of the Western's most successful creators. After graduating from the University of Oregon in 1923 with a degree in journalism, Haycox began his quest to break into New York's pulp magazine scene, submitting dozens of stories before he began to make a living from his writing. By the end of the 1920s he had become a top writer for Western Story, Short Stories, and Adventure, among other popular weeklies and monthlies. Ernest Haycox and the Western traces Haycox's path from rank beginner, to crack pulp writer, to regular contributor to Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post. Etulain shows how Haycox experimented with techniques to deepen and broaden his Westerns, creating more introspective protagonists (Hamlet heroes), introducing new types of heroines (the brunette vixen, the blonde Puritan), and weaving greater historical realism into his plots. After reaching the height of success with his best-selling Custer novel, Bugles in the Afternoon (1944), Haycox moved away from the financially rewarding but artistically constricting Western formula - only to achieve his final coup with The Earthbreakers, a historical novel about the end of the Oregon Trail, published posthumously in 1952. Reconstructing the career of a popular literary giant, Ernest Haycox and the Western restores Haycox to his rightful place in the history of Western literature.
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Very Good jacket. Norman. 2017. September 2017. University of Oklahoma Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780806157306. 16 B&W Illus. 6 × 9. 200 pages. hardcover. keywords: American Literature Biography Western American West. DESCRIPTION-Western fans today may not recognize the name Ernest Haycox (1899–1950), but they know his work. John Ford turned one of his stories into the iconic film Stagecoach, and the whole Western literary genre still follows conventions that Haycox deftly mastered and reshaped. In this new book about Haycox's literary career, Richard W. Etulain tells the engrossing story of his rise through the ranks of popular magazine and serial fiction to become one of the Western's most successful creators. After graduating from the University of Oregon in 1923 with a degree in journalism, Haycox began his quest to break into New York's pulp magazine scene, submitting dozens of stories before he began to make a living from his writing. By the end of the 1920s he had become a top writer for Western Story, Short Stories, and Adventure, among other popular weeklies and monthlies. Ernest Haycox and the Western traces Haycox's path from rank beginner, to crack pulp writer, to regular contributor to Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post. Etulain shows how Haycox experimented with techniques to deepen and broaden his Westerns, creating more introspective protagonists (Hamlet heroes), introducing new types of heroines (the brunette vixen, the blonde Puritan), and weaving greater historical realism into his plots. After reaching the height of success with his bestselling Custer novel, Bugles in the Afternoon (1944), Haycox moved away from the financially rewarding but artistically constricting Western formula-only to achieve his final coup with The Earthbreakers, a historical novel about the end of the Oregon Trail, published posthumously in 1952. Reconstructing the career of a popular literary giant, Ernest Haycox and the Western restores Haycox to his rightful place in the history of Western literature. inventory #42028.
Richard Etulain has done an excellent job in bringing to life one of the most fascinating men who ever lived. And the fact the man is a writer makes it incredible. Mr. Etulain follows Ernest Haycox's life as a writer from his early beginnings a "pulp" story producer to the end of a career which saw such novels as The Adventurers, and The Earthbreakers, two outstanding historical works about Oregon and the Great Northwest. Mr. Etulain breaks down many of the Haycox novels and explains the creative process by which Haycox worked. A great piece of work, including a limited bibliography. Highly recommended.
September 21, 2017--This is an addition to the original review which was on the Boise State Western Writers Series booklet of 49. pages. This "new" edition is more complete and covers nearly all of Haycox"s major works with indebt analysis and opinion as to why each succeeded or failed. It is a good companion book to go along with two other Haycox studies--"On a Silver Desert" by Ernest Haycox Jr. and "Ernest Haycox" the Twayne's United States Author's Series by Stephen Tanner. This hardcover edition also has a complete bibliography of all of Ernest Haycox's published works--a quite extensive list. Of course there are parts and opinions with which I don't necessarily agree, but as a whole it is still an excellent work about one of the most influencial authors of the twentieth century even though Mr. Haycox had no idea he was being such an influence on the next generation of "western" authors. Still highly recommended.
