Westward Ho! September 17, 2002 / 2:13 PM EDT / AP ... Willa Cather, 1873-1947, wrote about life on the Nebraska prairies in works that include her 1913 novel, "O Pioneers." ...

Well, the famous moniker comes from the title of Charles Kingsley’s 1855 novel “Westward Ho!”, which was set in nearby Bideford. The book was a bestseller, and entrepreneurs saw the ...

Miller Cornelius Sanders Bradbury boasted about his novel “steam-dried flour” warranted not to sour or get moldy for two years—ideal for the long trail westward. No matter how they traveled, ...

Westward Ho! Aaron Howard April 26, 2001 4:00AM { "name": "Inline Story Links", "component ... They read the dime novel and absorbed the newly created mythology of the American West.

The toughest women on TV live in “Deadwood.” The women on the HBO western are living hardscrabble lives unimagined by David Chase’s high-maintenance Jersey dames on “The Sop… ...

The historic Westward Ho is getting an uplift, with repairs and upgrades made to kitchen cabinets, floors, fixtures, windows and air conditioning systems in many of its 289 affordable apartments ...

If you scan across a map of North Devon, you are sure to look twice at seaside village Westward Ho! After Charles Kingsley's 1855 novel Westward Ho! placed Bideford in the country's spotlight ...

Five star luxury? In Westward Ho!? To be honest, we had our doubts. Secondhand reports painted a rather uninspiring picture of an old school holiday resort that was somewhat past its prime ...

Jon Huxley outside his Westward Ho! Hotel. The hotel is expected to include bondage rooms, dungeons and a “red room of pain”, as depicted in the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey.

The village is named after the 1855 novel of the same name by Charles Kingsley. It proved extremely popular, and led to a tourism boom in the Bideford area. Local businesspeople built the Westward Ho!