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Honey in the Horn (1935), a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by H. L. Davis, tells of the lives of Oregon pioneers. With realistic and colorful detail and rough humor, the work describes the quirky individuality and essential isolation of various frontier types of men and women, as it describes the search for a suspected murderer and the yearning relationship between a young man and a gypsy-like horse seller's daughter.

H. L. Davis was born in Oregon in 1896 and died in 1960. He was encouraged in his writing by H. L. Menchen and published several book of poetry and fiction as well as stories, sketches, and articles in such periodicals as American Mercury and The Saturday Evening Post.

Information on H.L. Davis

http://bluebook.state.or.us/notable/notdavis.htm
From the Oregon Blue Book, notable Oregonians.

http://www.ochcom.org/davis.html
"H. L. Davis: Bard of the Oregon Landscape," Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission web site.

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