At least seven of Ernest Haycox Western stories have been adapted to motion pictures: Trouble Shooter appeared in 1939 as Union Pacific; Man in the Saddle appeared in 1951; Sundown Jim appeared in 1942; Canyon Passage appeared in 1946; Bugles in the Afternoon appeared in 1952, starring Ray Miland, Hugh Marlowe, and Helena Carter; and Alder Gulch was released as The Far Country in 1955. The successful motion picture, Stagecoach, was taken from his story The Stage to Lordsburg (1937).