Born on this day – Ernest Haycox:

Ernest Haycox

Writer

October 1, 1899 – October 13, 1950

Credits:

Books:

A Century of Great Western Stories (2000); A Rider of the High Mesa (1956); Action by Night (1957); Action By Night / Trouble Shooter (1984); Alder Gulch (1942); Alder Gulch / Rider of the High Mesa (1983); Blizzard Camp (2022); Born to Conquer (1999); Brand Fires on the Ridge / aka Wipe Out the Brierlys (1959); Bugles in the Afternoon (1957); Bugles in the Night (1952); Bugle's Wake (1953); Burnt Creek (1996); By Rope and Lead / aka Stage to Lordsburg / Stage-coach (1949); Canyon Passage (1945); Chaffee of Roaring Horse (1949); Clouds on the Circle (1997); Dead Man Range / aka Son of the West (1930); Deep West (1955); Discovery Gulch (1929); Fighting Man / aka On the Prod (1961); Four Great Novels of the West (1997); Frank Peace, Trouble Shooter (1963); Free Grass (1958); Frontier Blood (1974); Great Tales of the West (1994); Grim Canyon (1960); Gun Talk (1956); Guns of Fury (1967); Guns Up (1994); Head of the Mountain (1959); High Wind (1999); Land Rush (1997); Lone Rider (1959); Long Storm (1956); Man in the Saddle (1953); Murder on the Frontier (1954); New Hope (1998); No Law and Order (1954); On a Silver Desert (2003); Outlaw (1953); Outlaw Guns (1964); Pioneer Loves (1948); Prairie Guns (1961); Rawhide Range (1954); Return of a Fighter (1956); Ride the Wild Trail (1974); Riders West (1959); Rim of the Desert (1953); Rim of the Desert / Dead Man's Range (1980); Rough Justice (1951); Saddle and Ride (1958); Saddle and Ride / the Feudists (1980); Scout Detail (1997); Secret River (1955); Sixgun Duo (1965); Stagecoach and Other Stories (1981); Starlight and Gunflame (1973); Starlight Rider (1958); Sundown (1955); Sundown Jim (1955); The Adventurers (1954); The Bold West (1999); The Border Trumpet (1939); The Earthbreakers (1960); The Feudists (1959); The Last Rodeo (1949); The Man From Montana (1964); The Silver Desert (1951); The Wild Bunch (1949); Trail Smoke (1954); Trail Town (1941); Trigger Trio (1966); Trouble Shooter (1954); Vengeance Trail (1960); Whispering Range (1955); Winds of Rebellion (1954).

Short stories:

A Battle Piece (1926); A Burnt Creek Yuletide (1924); A Girl Must Wait (1939); A Man Needs an Answer (1938); A Municipal Feud (1928); A New Deal in Sevensticks (1927); A Rider of the High Mesa (1927); A Wooing in the Wilds (1925); A Young Man's Fancy (1942); Against the Mob (1935); Always Remember (1942); An Interval in Youth (1938); At Anselm's (1944); At Wolf Creek Tavern (1933); Blizzard Camp (1932); Blizzard (1939); Born to Conquer (1936); Bound South (1928); Brand Fires on the Ridge (1929); Breed of the Frontier (1932); Budd Dabbles in Homesteads (1924); By Rope and Lead (1929); Call This Land Home (1948); Change of Station (1940); Contention—Two Miles Ahead (1929); Crossfire (1931); Cry Deep, Cry Still (1948); Custom of the Country (1948); Dark Land Waiting (1940); Dead-Man Trail (1948); Deep Winter (1943); Departure (1946); Deserter at Valley Forge (1927); Discovery Gulch (1929); Dispatch for the General (1942); Dolorosa, Here I Come (1931); Down the River (1938); Drums Roll (1927); Faithfully, Judith (1942); False Face (1926); Farewell, Laramie, Farewell! (1932); Fighting Man (1929); Five Hard Men (1929); Found Out (1932); Fourth Son (1939); Free Land (1937); From the Tuality (1943); Frontier Blood (1926); Gambler's Heart (1933); Guns Up! (1928); Hang Up My Gun (1932); High Wind (1935); Invitation by Bullet (1929); Light of the West (1926); Make Me Believe (1935); Manhunt (1931); Martinet (1941); McQuestion Rides (1931); Mrs. Benson (1948); Night of Parting (1948); Night Raid (1929); Odd Chance (1933); Old Tough Heart (1931); On Don Jaime Street (1940); Once and for All (1935); One Night in Blackfoot (1927); Only the Best (1943); Outlaw's Reckoning (1949); Paycheck (1943); Pistol Gap (1930); Prairie Yule (1925); Pride (1934); Proud People (1936); Red Knives (1925); Renegade Law (1929); Ride Out! (1931); Rockbound Honesty (1926); Room 515 (1940); Scout Detail (1938); Second Choice (1942); Second-Money Man (1933); Secret River (1928); Sevensticks Gambler (1928); Skirmish at Dry Fork (1942); Smoke Talk (1931); Smoky Pass (1934); Snow in the Canyon (1948); Some Were Brave (1940); Son of the West (1930); Stage to Lordsburg (1937); Starlight and Gunflame (1928); Stubborn People (1924); The Bandit from Paloma County (1929); The Belle of Sevensticks (1927); The Claim Jumpers (1940); The Code (1926); The Colonel's Choice (1942); The Coolie Catcher (1923); The Decision (1933); The Desert Eye (1928); The Ditch to Freedom (1924); The Drifter (1940); The Feudists (1932); The Fighting Call (1932); The Grim Canyon (1928); The Gun Singer (1931); The Gun-Shot Path (1927); The Hour of Fury (1933); The Inscrutable Man (1951); The Kid From River Red (1932); The Killers (1930); The Land That Women Hate (1949); The Long Years (1939); The Man From Montana (1927); The Man with Smoke Gray Eyes(1934); The Octopus of Pilgrim Valley (1928); The Quarrel (1941); The Return of a Fighter (1929); The Roaring Hour (1932); The Sheriff of Crooked Rib (1928); The Silver Saddle (1940); The Stranger (1936); The Timberline Fugitive (1927); The Trail of the Barefoot Pony (1929); The Trap Lifters (1922); Their Own Lights (1933); Their Own Lights (1933); Things Remembered (1949); This Woman and This Man (1938); Time of Change (1942); Under Western Skies (1927); Violent Interlude (1949); Way Up the Bozeman (1935); Weight of Command (1940); When Money Went to His Head (1924); Wild Horse Lode (1929); Winds of Rebellion (1927); Woman Hungry (1937).

Movies and television:

Abilene Town (1946); Actor's Studio (1949); Apache Trail (1942); Apache War Smoke (1952); Bugles in the Afternoon (1952); Canyon Passage (1946); Cimarron City (1959); General Electric Theater (1955–1958); Heaven Only Knows (1947); Man in the Saddle (1951); Medallion Theatre (1953); Montana (1950); Schlitz Playhouse (1958); Stagecoach (1939 / 1966 / 1986); Sundown Jim (1942); Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1959); The Forsaken Westerns (2017); The Motorola Television Hour (1953); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); Theatre of the West (1955); Union Pacific (1939).

On this day in movie history – Stagecoach (1939 movie & novel):

Stagecoach

directed by John Ford,

written by Dudley Nichols and Ben Hecht,

based on the short story Stage to Lordsburg by Ernest Haycox,

was released in the United States on February 2, 1939.
Music by Gerard Carbonara.

Cast:

Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell, Louise Platt, George Bancroft, Donald Meek, Berton Churchill, Tim Holt, Tom Tyler, Dorothy Appleby, Frank Baker, Chief John Big Tree, Ted Billings, Wiggie Blowne, Danny Borzage, Ed Brady, Fritzi Brunette, Yakima Canutt, Nora Cecil, Steve Clemente, Bill Cody, Jack Curtis, Marga Ann Deighton, Patricia Doyle, Tex Driscoll, Johnny Eckert, Franklyn Farnum, Francis Ford, Brenda Fowler, Olin Francis, Helen Gibson, Don Hawks, Robert Homans, William Hopper, George Huggins, Si Jenks, Cornelius Keefe, Florence Lake, Al Lee, Duke R. Lee, Theodore Lorch, Chris-Pin Martin, Jim Mason, Louis Mason, Merrill McCormick, J.P. McGowan, Walter McGrail, Paul McVey, Jack Mohr, Kent Odell, Artie Ortego, Vester Pegg, Jack Pennick, Chris Phillips, Joe Rickson, Buddy Roosevelt, Elvira Ríos, Mickey Simpson, Margaret Smith, Chuck Stubbs, Harry Tenbrook, Leonard Trainor, Dorothy Vernon, Mary Kathleen Walker, Blackjack Ward, Bryant Washburn, Whitehorse, Hank Worden.

Recommended reading:

Stage to Lordsburg

By Ernest Haycox.

Filmed as Stagecoach (1939), directed by John Ford.

Short story.

First published 1937.

Published by Fantasy and Horror Classics.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1447404130

ISBN-13: 978-1447404132

Description:

Ernest Haycox's 1937 short story, Stage to Lordsburg, was a bestseller and a classic of the Western genre. Popularized by the 1939 film adaptation Stagecoach, this Wild West tale vividly portrays Haycox's setting and characters.

Stage to Lordsburg follows a collection of characters as they journey from Tonto, Arizona Territory, to Lordsburg, New Mexico. A series of dangers and perils face the colorful group as they embark on the uncomfortable trip. Ernest Haycox presents a number of cliché Western characters and the point of view shifts between them as the short story progresses. This masterful tale by Ernest Haycox, a prolific writer of Western fiction, is not to be missed by fans of old cowboy narratives.