New Hope - Softcover

Haycox, Ernest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1477840400 ISBN 13: 9781477840405

Publisher: AmazonEncore, 2013

Synopsis

A TOWN WITH GRIT

New Hope combines three of Ernest Haycox's finest short novels with the interconnected stories he wrote about New Hope, a freighting town on the Missouri River in what was then Nebraska Territory. In "The Roaring Hour," Clay Travis, the new town marshal, and his fiancée, Gail, are up against the combined forces of the gambling hall owner, the sheriff controlled by him, and the local outlaw leader. A young upstart holds up a stagecoach in "The Kid from River Red" to prove his manhood and impress an outlaw. "The Hour of Fury" tells the tale of Dane Starr, who has come to town to lose his identity as a gunfighter and instead finds himself at the center of a dangerous power struggle.

About this title

About the Author:

Haycox was born in Portland, Oregon on October 1, 1899.[2] He published two dozen novels and about 300 short stories, many of which appeared first in pulp magazines in the early 1920s. During the 1930s and 40s, he was a regular contributor to Collier's Weekly from 1931 and The Saturday Evening Post from 1943. Haycox died in 1950, at the age of 51, in Portland.[1] In 2005 the Western Writers of America voted Haycox one of the 24 best Western authors of the Twentieth Century.

About this edition

• Publisher: AmazonEncore
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1477840400
• ISBN 13: 9781477840405
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256