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portada Saddle and Ride: Classic Western Adventures of Frontier Justice, Cattle Range Conflict, and Old West Gunfighters
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Language
English
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9x15.2x0.6 cm
ISBN13
9788028357511

Saddle and Ride: Classic Western Adventures of Frontier Justice, Cattle Range Conflict, and Old West Gunfighters

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Synopsis "Saddle and Ride: Classic Western Adventures of Frontier Justice, Cattle Range Conflict, and Old West Gunfighters"

Ernest Haycox's Saddle and Ride gathers the essential energies of the classic Western: contested trails, hard travel, sudden violence, and the moral pressure exerted by frontier communities upon solitary men. Written in a lean, cinematic prose that favors action, dialogue, and sharply observed landscape over ornament, the book belongs to the mature pulp-to-literary Western tradition of the early twentieth century. Its riders, ranchers, drifters, and lawmen inhabit not mythic simplicity but a shifting borderland where courage is inseparable from judgment. Haycox (1899-1950), an Oregon-born writer, knew the geography and history of the American West not as remote legend but as inherited regional memory. Educated at the University of Oregon and a prolific contributor to magazines such as Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post, he helped elevate Western fiction beyond formula. His interest in character under stress, social order, and the costs of masculine codes gives Saddle and Ride a seriousness rooted in both popular storytelling and historical imagination. Readers seeking a vigorous, intelligent Western will find this volume rewarding. It offers the pleasures of speed, danger, and open country while also inviting reflection on loyalty, violence, and responsibility. For admirers of frontier fiction, Haycox remains indispensable.

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