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"Maybe I didn't make myself plain to you,"
Tracy Coleman said slowly.
He flung the table aside and sent it crashing to the floor. George Pairvent rose and kicked away the chair; his hand went to his gun.
Coleman came at him. He twisted Pairvent's arm, pinning it back until he yelled and the gun dropped. Coleman knocked it aside with his foot, and dealt Pairvent a blow that sent him reeling against the bunks.
He stepped back. "Have I made myself plain this time?"
HORSEHEAD RANCH
It was a lush valley surrounded by mountains. And now it had been placed in the hands of Tracy Coleman, by an old man preparing to die. But others denied his claim, declaring Horsehead free range Cattle rustlers were in command when Tracy tried to take over, with fists and bullets matched in the deadly struggle for control.
ERNEST HAYCOX, called "the supreme Western writer of all time" has masterfully recreated in this powerful novel the hair-trigger days of the Old West, as one man fights for justice and right.
The famed Western novelist was the author of over forty books which have sold millions of copies in paperback, with many turned into highly popular films and adapted for TV.
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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.
