The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Western novelist                          

Selected Works:

Novels:

Free Grass - 1928
Chaffee of Roaring Horse - 1929
Whispering Range - 1931
Starlight Rider - 1933
Riders West - 1934
Rough Air - 1934
The Silver Desert - 1935
Trail Smoke - 1936
Trouble Shooter - 1936
Deep West - 1937
Sundown Jim - 1937
Man in the Saddle - 1938
The Border Trumpet - 1939
Saddle and Ride - 1939
Rim of the Desert - 1941
Trail Town - 1941
Alder Gulch - 1941
Action by Night - 1942
The Wild Bunch - 1943
Bugles in the Afternoon - 1943
Canyon Passage - 1945
Long Storm - 1946
Head of the Mountain - 1952
The Earthbreakers - 1952
The Adventurers - 1954

Short stories and novellas:

1920's

The Trap Lifters - 1922
The Coolie Catcher - 1923
A Burnt Creek Yuletide - 1924
The Ditch to Freedom - 1924
Budd Dabbles in Homesteads - 1924
A Wooing in the Wilds - 1925
Prairie Yule - 1925
Light of the West - 1926
Frontier Blood - 1926
The Code - 1926
The Timberline Fugitive - 1927
The Gun-Shot Path - 1927
Winds of Rebellion - 1927
Under Western Skies - 1927
The Belle of Sevensticks - 1927
A Rider of the High Mesa - 1927
A New Deal in Sevensticks - 1927
One Night in Blackfoot - 1927
The Man From Montana - 1927
Bound South - 1928
Starlight and Gunflame - 1928
The Octopus of Pilgrim Valley - 1928
The Desert Eye - 1928
Secret River - 1928
A Municipal Feud - 1928
The Sheriff of Crooked Rib - 1928
The Grim Canyon - 1928
Guns Up! - 1928
Sevensticks Gambler - 1928
The Bandit from Paloma County - 1929
Renegade Law - 1929
Brand Fires on the Ridge - 1929
The Return of a Fighter - 1929
Fighting Man - 1929
Invitation by Bullet - 1929
Discovery Gulch - 1929
Night Raid - 1929
Wild Horse Lode - 1929
By Rope and Lead - 1929

1930's

The Killers - 1930
Pistol Gap - 1930
Dolorosa, Here I Come - 1930
Son of the West - 1930
Crossfire - 1931
Manhunt - 1931
The Gun Singer - 1931
Old Tough Heart - 1931
Ride Out! - 1931
Smoke Talk - 1931
McQuestion Rides - 1931
The Feudists - 1932
The Fighting Call - 1932
The Roaring Hour - 1932
Hang Up My Gun - 1932
Blizzard Camp - 1932
The Kid From River Red - 1932
Found Out - 1932
Breed of the Frontier - 1932
Farewell, Laramie, Farewell! - 1932
Their Own Lights - 1933
The Decision - 1933
At Wolf Creek Tavern - 1933
The Hour of Fury - 1933
Gambler’s Heart - 1933
Odd Chance - 1933
Second-Money Man - 1933
Smoky Pass - 1934
Pride - 1934
High Wind - 1935
Way Up the Bozeman - 1935
Make Me Believe - 1935
Born to Conquer - 1936
The Stranger - 1936
Proud People - 1938
Woman Hungry - 1937
Stage to Lordsburg - 1937
Free Land - 1937
Scout Detail - 1938
This Woman and This Man - 1938
Down the River - 1938
A Man Needs an Answer - 1938
An Interval in Youth - 1938
Blizzard - 1939
Fourth Son - 1939
The Long Years - 1939
A Girl Must Wait - 1939

1940s and later:

The Drifter - 1940
The Silver Saddle - 1940
Change of Station - 1940
Room 515 - 1940
On Don Jaime Street - 1940
Some Were Brave - 1940
Weight of Command - 1940
Martinet - 1941
The Quarrel - 1941
Dispatch for the General - 1942
Second Choice - 1942
Faithfully, Judith - 1942
Always Remember - 1942
A Young Man’s Fancy - 1942
Skirmish at Dry Fork - 1942
Time of Change - 1942
The Colonel’s Choice - 1942
Deep Water - 1943
Paycheck - 1943
Only the Best - 1943
From the Tuality - 1943
At Anselm's - 1944
Departure - 1946
Snow in the Canyon - 1948
Mrs. Benson - 1948
Custom of the Country - 1948
Dead-Man Trail - 1948
Night of Parting - 1948
Call This Land Home - 1948
Things Remembered - 1949
Violent Interlude - 1949
Outlaw’s Reckoning - 1949
The Land That Women Hate - 1949
The Inscrutable Man - 1951

Story and novella collections:

Outlaw - 1939
Murder on the Frontier - 1942
Pioneer Loves - 1948
Prairie Guns - 1949
The Last Rodeo - 1949
Rough Justice - 1950
By Rope and Lead - 1951
Rawhide Range - 1952
Vengeance Trail - 1955
Gun Talk - 1956
Brand Fires on the Ridge - 1959
Sixgun Duo - 1965
Trigger Trio - 1966
Burnt Creek: A Frontier Duo - 1996
New Hope - 1998

Filmography:

Union Pacific - 1939, based on Trouble Shooter - 1936
Stagecoach - 1939, based on Stage to Lordsburg - 1937
Sundown Jim - 1942, based on Sundown Jim - 1937
Abilene Town - 1946, based on Trail Town - 1941
Canyon Passage - 1946, based on Canyon Passage - 1945
Man in the Saddle - 1951, based on Man in the Saddle - 1938
Bugles in the Afternoon - 1952, based on Bugles in the Afternoon - 1943
The Far Country - 1954, based on Alder Gulch - 1941.                          

Mother Martha Burghardt
Father William James Haycox