The Revenge of Florida Jack: Restored Classics to Go Edition
Aug 2026 · Otbebookpublishing
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Ernest Haycox's The Revenge of Florida Jack opens with a ranchhouse confrontation that instantly defines a harsh Western world: Jim Kitchin, a powerful and good-humored boss, turns furious when he catches Florida Jack, a sly and unstable herder, abusing a sheep dog. The humiliation drives Jack into a fever of resentment, and what begins as a clash of temperaments becomes a calculated campaign of revenge. In saloons, on lonely trails, and in isolated cabins, he spreads poisonous rumors to set Kitchin against the feared gunman Belisarius Tuggs, exploiting the frontier code of honor until suspicion hardens into feud. As the lies take hold, Jack's scheme grows more dangerous. A stolen rifle, a fatal shot, and a forged challenge push the conflict toward open violence in Woolville, where the whole town gathers for the expected showdown. But the duel exposes the truth behind the feud, and Jack's final reckless attack ends with Kitchin killing him in the street. Woolville treats the death as an act of God, a grimly practical judgment that closes the story with dark irony, frontier justice, and a brutal lesson in rumor, pride, and revenge. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
Ernest Haycox's The Revenge of Florida Jack opens with a ranchhouse confrontation that instantly defines a harsh Western world: Jim Kitchin, a powerful and good-humored boss, turns furious when he catches Florida Jack, a sly and unstable herder, abusing a sheep dog. The humiliation drives Jack in...
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Ernest Haycox, born in Portland, Oregon in 1899, became one of the most influential writers of the American Western, crafting stories like "False Face" that combined rugged adventure with a keen sense of historical and psychological realism. A veteran of World War I and a disciplined craftsman of short fiction and serialized novels, Haycox elevated the Western from pulp entertainment to literary art by focusing not just on gunfights and frontier justice, but on the moral choices, cultural conflicts, and internal struggles of his characters. His stories often featured protagonists caught between shifting codes of honor and the emerging modern world, reflecting broader American anxieties about identity, justice, and change. At a time when the West was already receding into myth, Haycox treated it as a living, complicated place—where people wrestled with loyalty, betrayal, and survival in ways that still echo in today's fiction about moral ambiguity and societal transformation. Readers drawn to nuanced storytelling in classic Americana, or anyone intrigued by the human drama behind the myths of the frontier, will find Haycox's work both gripping and surprisingly resonant.
Ernest Haycox, born in Portland, Oregon in 1899, became one of the most influential writers of the American Western, crafting stories like "False Face" that combined rugged adventure with a keen sense of historical and psychological realism. A veteran of World War I and a disciplined craftsman of...
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