Ernest Haycox is among the most successful writers of American western fiction. He is credited for raising western fiction up from the pulp fiction into the mainstream. His works influenced other writers of western fiction to the point of no return. Novels and Novellas A Rider of the High Mesa Free Grass The Octopus of Pilgrim Valley Chaffee of Roaring Hors Son of the West Whispering Range The Feudists The Kid From River Red The Roaring Hour Starlight Rider Riders West The Silver Desert Trail Smoke Trouble Shooter Sundown Jim Man in the Saddle The Border Trumpet Saddle and Ride Rim of the Desert Trail Town Alder Gulch Action by Night The Wild Bunch Bugles in the Afternoon Canyon Passage Long Storm Head of the Mountain The Earthbreakers The Adventurers Stories From the American Revolution Red Knives A Battle Piece Drums Roll Burnt Creek Stories A Burnt Creek Yuletide Budd Dabbles in Homesteads When Money Went to His Head Stubborn People Prairie Yule False Face Rockbound Honesty Murder on the Frontier Mcquestion Rides Court Day Officer's Choice The Colonel's Daughter Dispatch to the General On Texas Street In Bullhide Canyon Wild Enough When You Carry the Star Other Short Stories At Wolf Creek Tavern Blizzard Camp Born to Conquer Breed of the Frontier Custom of the Country Dead-Man Trail Dolorosa, Here I Come Fourth Son The Last Rodeo The Silver Saddle Things Remembered