This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. In Ernest Haycox's The Corporal's Story, a hard-pressed enlisted man stands at the center of a tense Western tale where army discipline, frontier danger, and personal judgment collide. Through a lean, direct style, the story follows a corporal whose experiences test his courage, loyalty, and sense of duty, revealing the hardships and human cost of service. Set against the pressures of frontier life, it captures the split-second decisions that can mean survival or disaster, while keeping its focus firmly on character rather than spectacle. Haycox gives ordinary men extraordinary burdens, tracing the moral weight they carry as they endure hardship, maintain discipline, and try to do what is right. The result is a grounded, character-driven military Western marked by grit, loyalty, and the stark demands of the frontier.

À propos de l'auteur

Haycox, Ernest

Ernest James Haycox (October 1, 1899 - October 13, 1950) was an American author of Western fiction.
Born in Portland, Oregon, to William James Haycox and the former Martha Burghardt, he attended local schools of both Washington state and Oregon. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1915 and was stationed along the Mexican border in 1916. During World War I he served in Europe, and after the war he spent one year at Reed College in Portland. In 1923, he graduated from the University of Oregon with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism. He married Jill M. Chord in 1925 and the couple had two children.
Haycox published two dozen novels and around 300 short stories, many of which appeared first in pulp magazines in the early 1920s. During the 1930s and 1940s, he was a regular contributor to Collier’s Weekly from 1931 and The Saturday Evening Post from 1943. Fans of his work included Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway.
His story Stage to Lordsburg (1937) was made into the movie Stagecoach (1939), directed by John Ford and featuring John Wayne in the role that made him a star. The novel Trouble Shooter (1936), originally serialized in Collier’s, was the basis for the movie Union Pacific (1939), directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea. Haycox wrote the screenplay for Montana (1950), directed by Ray Enright, which stars Alexis Smith and Errol Flynn.
Haycox died in 1950, at the age of 51, in Portland. In 2005 the Western Writers of America voted Haycox one of the 24 best Western authors of the Twentieth Century.