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Jim Chaffee rode into Roaring Horse slowly. It was growing dark and Woolfridge's men were staked out everywhere—along the streets, behind the stores and saloons, in the back alleys. Their orders were to kill Chaffee, to gun him down, shoot him in the back.
And the town of Roaring Horse waited quietly, helplessly, for the death of the only man who could save them.
A shot split the air and whistled past Chaffee's head. He was out of the saddle, crouching and shooting as he ran. JIM CHAFFEE WAS FIGHTING BACK
ERNEST HAYCOX is the unquestioned king of the western story. Over twenty million copies of his masterful novels have been sold, making Haycox one of the best-selling authors of all time. His name and fame are known all over the world through his books and the many motion pictures based on them.
CHAFFEE OF ROARING HORSE is the story of a cowboy, a great rider, a great fighter, a man of steel nerves and restless blood, who pitted himself against the power of enormous wealth, cruelty and ambition, and against the guns of a hundred men.
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Ernest James Haycox (October 1, 1899 - October 13, 1950) was an American author of Western fiction.
Born in Portland, Oregon, to William James Haycox and the former Martha Burghardt, he attended local schools of both Washington state and Oregon. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1915 and was stationed along the Mexican border in 1916. During World War I he served in Europe, and after the war he spent one year at Reed College in Portland. In 1923, he graduated from the University of Oregon with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism. He married Jill M. Chord in 1925 and the couple had two children.
Haycox published two dozen novels and around 300 short stories, many of which appeared first in pulp magazines in the early 1920s. During the 1930s and 1940s, he was a regular contributor to Collier's Weekly from 1931 and The Saturday Evening Post from 1943. Fans of his work included Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway.
His story Stage to Lordsburg (1937) was made into the movie Stagecoach (1939), directed by John Ford and featuring John Wayne in the role that made him a star. The novel Trouble Shooter (1936), originally serialized in Collier's, was the basis for the movie Union Pacific (1939), directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea. Haycox wrote the screenplay for Montana (1950), directed by Ray Enright, which stars Alexis Smith and Errol Flynn.
Haycox died in 1950, at the age of 51, in Portland. In 2005 the Western Writers of America voted Haycox one of the 24 best Western authors of the Twentieth Century.
