Riders West By Ernest Haycox

• Mass Market Paperback
• Riders West
• Ernest Haycox
• English
• 09 October 2024
• 0446768529

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Warner Paperback Library Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued 1975 Mass Market Paperback A trace of wear 12mo over 6 7 tall Mass Market Paperback SR 1 1 B Riders WestRiders West is an old western I stumbled across not knowing the author Ernest Haycox was as prolific and acclaimed as he is He wrote the novel Stage to Lordsburg that was the basis for the John Wayne movie Stagecoach This novel is along the usual western setting with a tough honest upstanding rancher and a newly arrived woman from the east The rancher Bellew leads the community in a range war against Neel St Cloud the villain The range war takes a while to get off the ground but after sticking with the novel I enjoyed the ride by the end of the book It is a little unfair to try to rate the book on today s merits as the book is from 1934 and the language is stilted in places and word use is not always the same as it is today The book may not meet political correctness of today but it was written 88 years ago With this in mind it was an enjoyable western in a good tradition of westerns I may find some Haycox novels for a rainy afternoon Mass Market Paperback A territorial cattle war in a small town becomes complicated when an independent woman from back east comes west to escape some unsavory romantic entanglements Written on the old paperback cover as enticement He was a man with a gun she was a woman with a past Mass Market Paperback