Title: Starlight Rider
Author: Ernest Haycox
Publisher: Collier (1933), Warner (1972)
Date: 1933
ISBN: none
Length: 192 pages
Quote: “Hugh Tracy passed Indian Flat around seven of the morning, traveling fast and feeling only a slight pucker in his right flank where the bullet hole had been three months healing.”
Queen Victoria was long gone, but Victorian melodrama still lived, Haycox demonstrates in this novel. Hugh Tracy returns to the place where he was wounded because there’s a beautiful heiress in danger of being coerced into marrying a nasty relative, older than her father and interested in her money. Obviously she needs to marry Tracy, as will be shown by his success in fighting all the co-workers who are now ordered to kill him. For in the Old West work, trade, and logic had not been invented yet, and a man’s only chance was his own .44.
If anybody does like this kind of story, I have one. It is significant in the study of American literature: it's an example of what Louis L'Amour's stories were so superior to.
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