Winner of a Spur Award from Western Writers of America, this first-ever biography of Ernest Haycox is by his son and namesake. Haycox was probably the best writer of popular Western stories during the 1930s-40s; the most skilled as well as the most successful in terms of mass appeal and income. But he was not content just to turn out formula fiction, even though he raised its quality enough to progress from the “pulps” (pulp-paper magazines like Western Story) to “slicks” such as


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