Max Brand

When you hear the term "western tales" most likely the name Zane Grey pops into your mind. but these three authors who lived around the same time as Grey are a welcome addition to Western Lore.

From pre-Civil War Virginia to the prairies of the far west, this epic follows young Lew Dorset as he journeys in search of his father....

The attacks of the huge lobo Gray Cloud have caused the remarkable price of $2,500 to be put on his head....

Peter Quince was a fighter born and bred. Orphaned at a young age, he remembered an old woman saying that he was a bad one and would cause a lot of trouble in the world. Others claimed he had bad blood, and it would show up sooner or later....

This Raging Bull Publishing box set contains four classic Western books by Max Brand....

He was still a young man, but he'd used that handful of years effectively, building a bad reputation that spanned the West....

A gripping Max Brand Western full of innumerable plot twists....

On a cold, gusty night in Circle City, Alaska, Sammy Day walks into Nagle's Bar. He is only 22, but he has been on his own for 10 years. He has worked cattle from Montana to Chihuahua, but an "accident" at a poker table in Montana sent him on a forced march to Alaska to avoid a posse....

Tom Fuller - a scrupulously honest fellow, a person of extraordinary physical strength, and owner of a savage horse that he alone was able to tame - is generally regarded as a half-wit....

When Lorrimer Weldon rode into San Trinidad, he found he immediately had two job offers: the outlaw Roger Cunningham wants Weldon to join his smuggling operation, and Dr. Henry Watts wants him to protect a patient dying of consumption....

Young Jim Curry's father is killed unjustly by an enraged mob, and the boy barely escapes the same fate. He shoots two pursuers and assumes they are dead....

Made in 1939, the Golden Year of Hollywood, Destry Rides Again helped launch Jimmy Stewart's career and made Marlene Dietrich an American icon.....

A collection of classic Western tales including From Missouri by Zane Grey, Over the Northern Border by Max Brand and Riders of the Dawn by Louis L'Amour....

Werewolf by Max Brand in Western Story Magazine (12/18/26) involves just such an inward journey for Christopher Royal, who is convinced he is a coward and flees a confrontation with Harry Main, who is a gunfighter....

Rusty Sabin, born to white parents, was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians who had given the young red-headed boy the name Red Hawk....

Rusty Sabin extracts two bags of gold from the Sacred Valley, partly to spend on Maisry Lester, the girl he hopes to marry....

Three men came over the horizon. Rance Tucker, a rancher, guided his buckboard through the pass, a double-barreled shotgun by his side. Up the valley rode Tom London...

This was the first effort by Frederick Faust aimed at writing a Western, and he used the pen name Max Brand. There was a different style of literary focus, with melodrama, but as the story developed, there were startling examples of action, conflict, and revenge that set it apart....

After hitting a rich vein of gold on the back of Champion Mountain, Blondy Kitchin heads to the big city to have a good time, but there his luck runs out and he ends up spending two years in prison....

The lure of the American West is in the spirit of adventure, in the majestic expanse of unconquered wilderness and in rugged individuals on a quest for identity and sometimes for survival....