Chaffee of Roaring Horse

by Ernest Haycox

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• ISBN: B001OTFSKS
• Release Date: January 1958
• Publisher: Warner
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Death Awaited In Town

Jim Chaffee rode into Roaring Horse expecting to be shot down, but he rode in anyway. The town awaited silently, as at an execution, knowing they could not stop it. And if this man died, they knew their help died as well. Ruthless land grabbers were snatching up the range to build an empire of their own in this book about greed, power, and control. Ernest Haycox wrote this story for the magazine industry, and is an early one in his career; yet you can already see the beginnings of greatness in his prose and sentence structure. He wrote like no one else ever has. The way he uses phrases in his descriptions of people and places is unique and makes for fascinating, and pleasurable reading. His historical accuracy as to dress, and conduct of people, and the simple way people lived is unsurpassed. This novel is one not to miss, if you want to know about the west, and the people who lived there.

A #1

Written in the best tradition as William Macleod Raine's "Bucky O'Connor" and "Steve Yeager", this is one of Ernest Haycox's best(of course I say this after I have read his other books too)Jim Chaffee having to go back to work for the other man after losing his homestead because of 3 bad winters in a row gets involved in stopping a cold blooded land stealer and fraud in promising that a dam will be built in order to sell homesteaders otherwise worthless land for farming, the heroine of the story is beautiful Gay Thatcher, Wow what a great story for all western fans, thank goodness for Ernest Haycox,Zane Grey, Luke Short, Peter Dawson, Donald Hamilton(he should have written more westerns instead of the Matt Helm series)and the afore mentioned William MacLeod Raine. Norman A. Fox isn't a bad story teller either.