"Western fiction." . . . . . "\"New Hope combines three of Ernest Haycox's finest short novels with the interconnected short stories he wrote about New Hope, a freighting town on the Missouri River. In \"The Roaring Hour,\" the new town marshal of Buffalo Crossing and his fianceé are up against the combined forces of the gambling hall owner, the sheriff controlled by him, and the local outlaw leader. A young upstart holds up a stagecoach in \"The Kid from River Red\" to prove his manhood and impress an outlaw leader. Then he finds out the price of the outlaw's acceptance is much higher. \"The Hour of Fury\" is set in the booming gold camp of Dug Gulch, where a gunfighter has come to lose his identity. Most of the stories are narrated by Tod, a boy coming of age in the 1880s, who captures indelibly the people, the land, and the time.\"--Page 4 of cover." . . "Western stories" . "Western stories"@en . . . . . . . "Presents four interconnected stories of life in New Hope, a freighting town on the Missouri River in the Nebraska Territory."@en . . . . . . . "Large type books" . "Large type books"@en . "An anthology of westerns, written in the first half of the century. In The Roaring Hour, a marshall faces a crooked sheriff, The Hour of Fury is on a gold-mining camp, and in The Kid from River Red a young man holds up a stagecoach to prove his manhood. By the author of the story, Stage to Lordsburg, which was made into the film, \"Stagecoach.\"" . . . "New Hope combines three of Ernest Haycox's finest short novels with the interconnected short stories he wrote about New Hope, a freighting town on the Missouri River. In The Roaring Hour, Clay Travis, the new town marshal of Buffalo Crossing, and his fiancee, Gail, are up against the combined forces of the gambling hall owner, the sheriff controlled by him, and the local outlaw leader. A young upstart holds up a stagecoach in The Kid From River Red to prove his manhood and impress an outlaw leader. But when he meets Dusty Bill, he finds out the price of the outlaw's acceptance is much higher.The Hour of Fury is set in the booming gold camp of Dug Gulch, where Dane Starr has come to lose his identity as a gunfighter and instead finds himself at the centre of a dangerous power struggle." . . . . . . . . . . . . "New Hope"@en . "New Hope" . "Short stories"@en . "Short stories" . "New hope : western stories"@en . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . "\"New Hope combines three of Ernest Haycox's finest short novels with the interconnected short stories he wrote about New Hope, a freighting town on the Missouri River.\"--Back cover."@en . . . . "An anthology of western stories written in the 1930's. In The Roaring Hour, a marshall faces a crooked sheriff, The Hour of Fury is on a gold-mining camp, and in The Kid from River Red a young man holds up a stagecoach to prove his manhood. By the author of the story, Stage to Lordsburg, which was made into the film, \"Stagecoach.\""@en . . . "New Hope combines three of Ernest Haycox's finest short novels with the interconnected short stories he wrote about New Hope, a freighting town on the Missouri River in what was then Nebraska Territory. In The Roaring Hour, Clay Travis, the new town marshal of Buffalo Crossing, and his fiancee, Gail, are up against the combined forces of the gambling hall owner, the sheriff controlled by him, and the local outlaw leader. A young upstart holds up a stagecoach in The Kid from River Red to prove his manhood and impress an outlaw leader. But when he meets Dusty Bill, he finds out the price of the outlaw's acceptance is much higher. The Hour of Fury is set in the booming gold camp of Dug Gulch, where Dane Starr has come to lose his identity as a gunfighter and instead finds himself at the centre of a dangerous power struggle. Most of the stories are narrated by Tod, a boy coming of age in the 1880s, who captures indelibly the people, the land, and the time."@en . "New Hope : western stories" . . "New hope" . "New hope"@en . "Large print books." . . "Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) Fiction." . . "Frontier and pioneer stories West (U.S.) Fiction." . . "Western stories." . . "Western Stories." . "Missouri River" . .