{"product_id":"9780806159218","title":"Ernest Haycox and the Western","description":"\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eStagecoach\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eWestern Story, Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAdventure\u003c\/i\u003e, among other popular weeklies and monthlies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eErnest Haycox and the Western\u003c\/i\u003e traces Haycox’s path from rank beginner, to crack pulp writer, to regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eCollier’s\u003c\/i\u003e and the\u003ci\u003e Saturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003eBugles in the Afternoon\u003c\/i\u003e (1944), Haycox moved away from the financially rewarding but artistically constricting Western formula—only to achieve his final coup with \u003ci\u003eThe Earthbreakers\u003c\/i\u003e, a historical novel about the end of the Oregon Trail, published posthumously in 1952.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Reconstructing the career of a popular literary giant, \u003ci\u003eErnest Haycox and the Western\u003c\/i\u003e restores Haycox to his rightful place in the history of Western literature.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123784368368,"sku":"9780806159218","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780806159218_p0.jpg?v=1763729463","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780806159218","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}