- Ernest Haycox
Ernest James Haycox (
October 1 ,1899 –October 13 ,1950 ), was an American writer of Western fiction.Biography
Haycox was born in Portland,
Oregon , to William James Haycox and the former Martha Burghardt onOctober 1 1899 .Corning, Howard M. (1989) "Dictionary of Oregon History". Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 110.] After receiving an education in the local schools of bothWashington state and Oregon, he enlisted in theUnited States Army in 1915 and was stationed along the Mexican border in 1916. DuringWorld War I he was in Europe, and after the war he spent one year atReed College in Portland. In 1923, Haycox graduated from theUniversity of Oregon with aBachelor of Arts degree in journalism, [ [http://flash.uoregon.edu/F00/hoa.html Five join SOJC's Hall of Achievement ] ] where he also started writing under professor W. F. G. Thatcher. In 1925, Haycox married Jill M. Chord, and they would have two children.He published two dozen
novel s and about 300 short stories, many of which appeared first inpulp magazine s 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 includedGertrude Stein andErnest Hemingway , and the latter once wrote, "I read "The Saturday Evening Post" whenever it has a serial by Ernest Haycox." [http://www.ochcom.org/haycox]His story "Stage to Lordsburg" (1937) was made into the movie "Stagecoach" (1939), directed by
John Ford and featuringJohn 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 byCecil B. DeMille , starringBarbara Stanwyck andJoel McCrea . Haycox wrote the screenplay for "Montana" (1950), directed byRay Enright , which starsAlexis Smith andErrol Flynn .In 2005 the
Western Writers of America voted Haycox one of the 24 best Western authors of the Twentieth Century.elected 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
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
External links
* [http://www.ochcom.org/haycox/ Biography of Ernest James Haycox] at the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission
* [http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/exhibits/haycox/index.html Under Western Skies: Ernest Haycox and the West in Fiction and Film] an exhibit at theUniversity of Oregon Libraries
* [http://www.westernwriters.org/best_westerns.htm Best Westerns of the 20th Century] as selected by theWestern Writers of America
* [http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/documents/retrieve.asp?docname=orucoll_164.xml Guide to the Ernest Haycox Papers, 1922-1974] , housed at the University of Oregon Libraries, from the Northwest Digital Archives
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