Born to Conquer and Other Short Stories - Haycox, Ernest
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"Born to Conquer" Peter Skene takes what he wants and kills who he wants. Settlers, squatters, rustlers and Indian war parties can't stop him from owning the Bitter Valley - and the biggest ranch in Oregon. "Clouds in Circle P" A man is being goaded into renewing a feud in order to uphold his honor. The ultimate result is a gunfight, and the listener is in on all the action until the gun smoke clears! "An Evening's Entertainment" When weathered cowboy Slim Shafter steps into a saloon in the tiny town of Dry Gulch, his presence immediately causes a stir. Slim only walked in for a drink, but it…mehr

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"Born to Conquer" Peter Skene takes what he wants and kills who he wants. Settlers, squatters, rustlers and Indian war parties can't stop him from owning the Bitter Valley - and the biggest ranch in Oregon. "Clouds in Circle P" A man is being goaded into renewing a feud in order to uphold his honor. The ultimate result is a gunfight, and the listener is in on all the action until the gun smoke clears! "An Evening's Entertainment" When weathered cowboy Slim Shafter steps into a saloon in the tiny town of Dry Gulch, his presence immediately causes a stir. Slim only walked in for a drink, but it turns out that he has a score to settle.... "Ride the River" Sycamore Smith has been moving from town to town in search of his brother and his girl for nearly a year. Now, while working a cattle wrangling job with a motley crew of riders, new details of his brother's disappearance are about to come to light. "The Stranger" Tonight the bullets will fly and rancher or rustler will die. A mystery man will decide whose blood will stain the sick streets of Star.
Autorenporträt
Haycox was born in Portland, Oregon on October 1, 1899.[2] He published two dozen novels and about 300 short stories, many of which appeared first in pulp magazines in the early 1920s. During the 1930s and 40s, he was a regular contributor to Collier's Weekly from 1931 and The Saturday Evening Post from 1943. Haycox died in 1950, at the age of 51, in Portland.[1] In 2005 the Western Writers of America voted Haycox one of the 24 best Western authors of the Twentieth Century.