Max Brand's 'The Mountain Fugitive' weaves a gripping tale of redemption, survival, and the complexities of identity amid the rugged yet picturesque landscape of the American West. Brand's literary style—marked by vivid descriptions and a fast-paced narrative—captures the essence of early 20th-century American adventure fiction, influenced by the conventions of the Western genre. The novel explores themes of justice and moral ambiguity as it follows its protagonists through harrowing chall...

Max Brand's "The Dan Barry Trilogy" is one of the most popular trios of books in Western literature.The novels - The Untamed, The Night Horseman, The Seventh Man - follow the exploits of Whistling Dan Barry, one of the author's most memorable Western heroes. Dan is a restless, instinct-driven rider torn between the wild frontier and the demands of love, loyalty, and civilization. With his black stallion Satan and wolf-dog Black Bart at his side, he moves through feuds, gunfights, r...

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. But Bill Andrews felt a connection with the boy, took him home and raised him as one of his own despite his wife’s misgivings.Peter soon learned he could manipulate people by withholding his true feelings—showing and telling them what they wanted...

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, and in desperation becomes a most unusual outlaw, the Red Devil. He never kills, takes only ill-gained money, secretly returns it to the rightful owners, and escapes every pursuit on his remarkable horse, Meg.Spoiled Charlie Mark has left home to seek thrills and easy money. He vows to find the Red Devil and discover why he is so...

Corcoran’s bed was hot. He slipped from the bed to the floor and lay there. The wind stirred at the window, died, then stirred again. Suddenly, he heard a prolonged rustling, and Corcoran saw, outlined in the window, the faint figure of something crouched on the sill, peering into the room! Slowly, it dissolved into the body of a man waiting and watching...The man from the night advanced a leg over the window sill. So infinite was his caution that it was a full minute before his fo...

CONTENTS: Harrigan Riders of the Silences The Untamed The Night Horseman Gunman's Reckoning Ronicky Doone The Seventh Man Alcatraz Black Jack The Rangeland Avenger

He was popularly nicknamed Morg, and it may be understood that strangers were apt to spell the name Morgue; yet his full name, as he signed it on the day of his wedding and never again, before or after, was Morgan Algernon Valentine. Someone discovered that hidden and forbidden signature and once addressed the rancher as Algie, and the result was a violent accident. Yet Morgan Valentine was a peaceful man. He was one of those who accomplish romantic results in an everyday manner. Banish hi...

Freedom can mean a lot of things, but the hardest to earn and most rewarding will always be wild freedom. Max Brand turned Westerns into an art form with cleverly crafted tales like this one. Plot twists, adventure, suspense, romance and humor combine in this delightfully fulfilling read.

Classic western. According to Wikipedia: "Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American fiction author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. Faust wrote mostly under pen names, and today is primarily known by one, Max Brand. Others include George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, and Frederick Frost. ... Faust managed a massive outpouring of fiction, rivaling Edgar Wallace and especially Isaac...

The Ronicky Doone Trilogy gathers three classic Western adventures centered on a restless, chivalric wanderer whose courage and wit animate the mythic spaces of the American frontier. Blending fast-paced action, romance, moral testing, and the laconic humor of pulp fiction, the collection exemplifies the early twentieth-century Western's movement between popular entertainment and modern legend-making. Its range extends from gunfighter suspense to quests for loyalty, justice, and self-comma...

When Samuel Cross was growing up, he was rarely found without a book in his hands and that was the way his mother, a widow, wanted him raised. His uncle, Stephen Larkin, a frontiersman like Sam’s father, wanted him to be strong and able to fend for himself, so he would take him into the mountains every summer to teach him how to fight and use a weapon.He proved to be as adept at these subjects as he had been at book learning, but when he was eighteen and his mother died, he took a ...

THE SILVERTIP SERIES gathers eleven classic Western narratives centered on one of Max Brand's most enduring frontier figures: the enigmatic, morally poised wanderer known as Silvertip. Across tales of pursuit, outlawry, loyalty, and violent reckoning, the collection displays the range of popular Western fiction at its height—swift action, psychological tension, mythic landscape, and a code of honor tested under extreme conditions. Together, these works illuminate the genre's fascination wi...