Provenance Of

The influences behind Conan the Barbarian

28 works across 28 centuries, back to The Iliad and Poems of Alcaeus.

Following one thread, 4 works from Conan the Barbarian to Stage to Lordsburg. Back to all 28 works

  1. 1937

    Stage to Lordsburg

    Ernest Haycox

    Interwar. United States. Written in English.

    A Collier's short story about passengers on a stagecoach through hostile country.

    What it handed down

    To Stagecoach (1939)

    Direct source, well documented.

    Ford bought Haycox's Collier's story and Dudley Nichols adapted it. The film keeps its premise of a stage carrying a mixed company through Apache country.

    Where it came from

    The line stops here: minor branch.

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