Westward Ho

Westward Ho

Westward Ho can refer to:

In fiction:
*"Westward Ho" (play), a 1604 play by John Webster and Thomas Dekker
*"Westward Ho!" (novel), an 1855 novel by Charles Kingsley
*"Westward Ho" (film), a 1935 movie starring John Wayne
*"Westward Ho!" (1832 book), a novel by James Kirke Paulding

Places:
*Westward Ho!, a town in the UK, named after the Kingsley book
*Westward Ho!, an alternate name for the course at Royal North Devon Golf Club
*Westward Ho!, the original name for the University Golf Club (near Vancouver, BC, Canada)
*Westward Ho (Phoenix), landmark hotel in Phoenix, Arizona
*Westward Ho Hotel and Casino a defunct Las Vegas hotel and casino
*Westward Ho, Alberta

Other:
*"Westward Ho", the popular name for a painting by Emanuel Leutze in a stairway in the Capitol in Washington D.C.

ee also

*Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway
*"Westward Ha!", a 1948 collection of miscellaneous pieces by S. J. Perelman.
*Worstward Ho, a Samuel Beckett text


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