Ernest Haycox 
Canyon Passage 

Canyon Passage is one of the most famed novels of the West from the pen of Ernest Haycox. It is the powerful story of men drunk with gold fever, men who fought the land and one another to gouge riches from the mountain wilderness, and the story, too, of the women they loved along the way…From the time it first appeared as a serial, blazing from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, and later as an enormously successful movie, CANYON PASSAGE has been a bestseller among the great Western sagas.