Murder on the Frontier (Annotated)

Murder on the Frontier gathers Ernest Haycox's taut Western fiction around the elemental problem of violence at the edge of law. Its world is one of mining camps, trail towns, disputed claims, and men whose private codes are tested before public justice has fully arrived. Haycox's prose is spare, kinetic, and psychologically alert: he inherits the popular frontier tradition, yet refines it with mo...