Max Brand

Don Sebastian Valdivia and his secretary, Juan Carreño, attend a horse auction at the Garrison Ranch, where an outlaw stallion, Twilight, is held back until last....

Bull Hunter was a young Western boy of unusual size who eventually became known as the “Gentle Giant”. Because of his stature and prodigious strength, along with a sort of natural timidity, Bull was often derided, even by his cousins, as being “slow” mentally....

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....

In Pete's Bar in the Bowery in New York, Pete tells some newspaper friends the story of Morgan the Fearless, a notorious desperado in the West. After terrorizing the Bridgewater region, the mayor hires Buck Christie to confront and defeat Morgan....

When the Gold Rush came to Murrayville, it brought with it rogues and bandits, but none of them more daring than the one who came to be called "The Ghost." He got his name from his mysterious knowledge of all the comings and goings of the town....

A weeklong dust storm has almost destroyed Bob Lindsey’s ranch and the surrounding region. He soon learns that the storm has also put his friend Andy Barnes’ cattle at risk, and the only clean water for them is at a cost of 10 cents per head....

As he comes of age, Ed Raleigh disobeys his wealthy rancher father, Pete Raleigh, and escapes to the Bald Eagle Mountains to prospect for ore. When he stops at the town of Sierra Padre, he visits his father's old haunts and meets up with many of his father's old friends....

Harry Camden came out of the wilderness unwillingly....

The Jericho mountain race - five hundred miles of spongy desert sand and impossible rocks and mountain cliffs. It takes a special breed of man, riding a very special horse...

Frederick Faust (pen name Max Brand) was said to have written in excess of twenty-five million words. This one that features a drifter named Donnegan. He gets off a train and takes on a job with a rich man who doesn’t seem to care much about the difference between rights and wrongs....

Versatility was a key talent of author Frederick Faust using the pseudonym Max Brand. What you’re about to hear is one of his lesser known stories that ranks as a prime example of his stupendous ability....

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....

This is the rousing story of Cheyenne, a gunfighter whose shooting hand was badly wounded by a bullet and now he cannot draw his gun. Word got around that he was a coward, a "yellow dog," and soon in uneven battle with his enemies, he finds his redemption....

The knife missed him by a fraction of an inch! Then he reached under his pillow, grabbed his gun and fired into the darkness. If Alvarez survives, he'll look for one man, an unbeatable bodyguard or the assassin who wants him dead. Either will do....

A Caribbean hurricane smashes a revolutionary army before they can fight. Then a fearless stranger is washed ashore and leads the ragtag soldiers into battle. Who is he and why does he risk his life? Find out....

Hagger is a man on the run, a thief and would-be killer. He's no good on a horse, and feels miserable and out of place in the snowbound high country. But, then, Hagger comes upon a white bull terrier, abandoned in a mountain cabin, and his whole life begins to change....

Jack Sherry and Bill Garvin are both dealers in wet cattle until Jack Sherry is caught and forced to take the grim trail to the gallows. Bill Garvin is left behind, bitter and distraught, but hopeful that somehow he will be able to mend the bullet-frayed fabric of a broken faith....

Haypress feeding is a brutal test of strength that can kill a man. Cafferty isn't worried. He's going after Frenchie's record anyway - the prize is a dream come true....

Ronicky Doone is a western novel by Max Brand. Excerpt from the book: "He came into the town as a solid, swiftly moving dust cloud..."

"The Seventh Man" (1921) is a unique western novel with well-sketched characters by Max Brand. Excerpt: "A man under thirty...