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  • Bibliography:
    360 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1919
  • Latest Book:
    August 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Ronicky Doone

Ronicky Doone (1921)
Ronicky Doone's Treasure (1922)
Ronicky Doone's Reward (Feb-1995)

A Silvertip Adventure

Silvertip (1942)
Silvertip's Search (1945)

Book List in Order: 360 titles

  • The Untamed

    THEY FOUGHT TO KILL! Whistling Dan Barry’s fingers were locked about the bull neck of the bandit, Jim Silent, his thumbs driven into the hollow of the throat. Jim beat with both fists against Dan’s lowered head. He tore at those hands -- locke...

  • The Night Horseman

    BUSINESS WAS BOOMING But when Dan Barry and his snarling wolf-dog burst into Elkhead’s Saloon, a terrified silence fell over the room. “Is this a damned kennel?” Jerry Strann’s voice finally broke out. “Do I have to drink in a barnyar...

  • Trailin'

    Max Brand was an American author best known for writing Western fiction.  This edition of Trailin’! includes a table of contents....

  • Ghost Rider

    There was mystery about Clung's birth -- but none about his skill with weapons. At first he shot in self-defense, and his aggressors were cut down suddenly, neatly, with bullets through their heads. But then,he killed recklessly, to avenge ...

  • Ronicky Doone

    Ronicky Doone

    Western Hero, Ronicky Doone, Provides His Own Brand of Justice. While Bill Gregg stole Ronicky Doone’s best mare, Doone thanked him with a bullet in the leg. When he discovered that Bill was desperately searching for a girl whose name he didn...

  • The Seventh Man

    Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Max Brand, ‘The Seventh Man.’ This book tells part of the story of the larger-than-life western character, Dan Barry, known as “Whistling Dan,” and his alter-ego companions, Black Bart, th...

  • The Rangeland Avenger

    His horse dead, his leg broken, Hal Sinclair was a burden his three fellow prospectors would not accept. In spite of his pleas, they abandoned him to die in the desert. Unable to endure the torture of pain and thirst, he shot himself. Now the prospec...

  • Jargan

    An unrivaled collection features stories from the most famous masters of Western fiction, including Louis L'Amour's The Trail to Crazy, which was the basis for the movie of the same name, and Max Brand's Jargan, which contains never-b...

  • Ronicky Doone's Treasure

    Ronicky Doone

    THE WILD BUNCH A troublemaker, mischief-maker, and adventurer by instinct, Ronicky Doone dared every gunman in the West to outdraw him -- and he always won. But nothing had prepared him for the likes of Jack Moon and his wild bunch. Hunting down a...



  • Devil Horse

  • Alcatraz

    ONE A HORSE, AND ONE A MAN -- BUT TWO OF A KIND! The might stallion Alcatraz had finally killed his vicious master and escaped. Now, by night, he was a threat to every corral for miles around. By day, he reigned as the incomparable king of the wil...

  • The Long, Long Trail

    "I ain't going to pile up a lot of excuses. All I say is this: That first a wrong was done, and that I took the law into my own hands, and then the law threw me out. And since that time, no matter what liars say, I've never lifted my hand except to d...

  • Tiger

  • Dan Barry's Daughter

    He's an outlaw on the run. Wanted for murder. Harry Gloster is a heartbeat ahead of the posse. But neither twisted justice nor a gallows rope can stretch across the Rio Grande. Hell-bent for Mexico, Gloster meets up with Joan Daniels and she's a drea...

  • The Gentle Gunman

    El Tigre was a Legend Throughout the Argentine, the Tiger was feared as a killer, a thief, an outlaw. Senor Valdivia had his own reason for hating him. Twenty years ago, El Tigre had stolen Valdivia's bride-to-be. The story stirred Charles Dupont'...

  • The Fastest Draw

    The men in Gloryville had gathered to watch the showdown between the two most notorious gunslingers in the territory -- Jim Sladen and Frank Yarnell. The sheriff had prudently absented himself, hoping that one or both of the two outlaws would be dead...

  • His Third Master

  • Fate's Honeymoon

  • Fire Brain



  • Outlaw Breed

    "Blood Will Tell!" Magruder told the visitors to his inn. "I killed the boy's father in a fair fight and took the boy to raise. He's quiet enough now, but someday he'll be an outlaw killer like his pa. No matter how hard I try, he's bound to go bad ....

  • The Stranger at the Gate

  • The White Wolf

    Raising champion dogs on the untamed frontier, Tucker Crosden makes special plans for his bull terrier White Wolf before the canine runs away, and years later he reencounters White Wolf, who leads a wolf pack. Original....

  • The Blue Jay

  • Pride of Tyson

    Fleeing the life of a New York aristocrat, Henry Tyson blazes a trail to the land of lawless renegades and rustlers, double-dealing gamblers and backshooting gringos to live the untamed life of a frontiersman. Reprint....

  • Sawdust and Six Guns

    Raised in a traveling circus, Anthony Castracane mastered better than anyone had before him the arts of horseback riding, knife throwing and wrestling. His life as the main attraction would have satisfied him--until he met the beautiful Muriel Lester...

  • Children of Night

    This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.Contents:Riders of the Purple Sage (Zane Grey)The Rainbow TrailThe Spirit of the BorderThe Untamed (Max Bran...

  • Pillar Mountain

  • Pleasant Jim

  • The Gun Tamer



  • Mistral

    Mistral, like a huge, gray devil, charged Bister standing in the center of the corral. Flight could not save Bister; he folded his arms across his chest and waited. The stallion leaped at him as if to tear Bister apart with his teeth. Then, sudden...

  • The Seven of Diamonds

    TIRREL RODE INTO LOS CAVALLOS FLUSH WITH A POKER WIN--AND TARGETED FOR DEATH! Wearing another man's clothes and flashing a diamond-studded stickpin, Tirrel didn't know he'd been set up. The man he'd bested in cards had stolen the diamonds from Bra...

  • Destry Rides Again

    This fast-paced story is about a tough rebel named Destry who is sent to prison for years, serving time for a crime he did not commit. Once out, he aims to seek revenge on the 12 jury members who sent him to prison. However, his mission isn't to kill...

  • Mystery Ranch

  • Happy Valley

    Jim Fantom was back---after five years in prison. Tom Dollar and Larry Phelan, his partners in crime who had turned state's witness against him, knew that Fantom would be out to get them.

    But someone else got to Phelan first. He was gunned down te...

  • Smiling Charlie

    Even at fifty, Colonel Stockton looked like a chained-up tornado. He was called “Colonel” because he could command a regiment in hell. He raised cattle in a valley of about two hundred square miles and ran it like a trap. It was easy enough to ge...

  • The Jackson Trail

    WRONG SIDE OF THE LAW “Jackson, don’t move! You’re covered.” Jesse Jackson recognized the cold voice of the Texas marshal. He looked and saw two deputies by the door, guns drawn and cocked. Jackson would have liked to toss in his han...

  • Twenty Notches

  • Valley Vultures

  • The Longhorn Feud

    “BARRY’S GOT ‘EM RED-HANDED!” When Barry Litton and his side-kick Tom Willow rode into Holy Creek they found themselves in the middle of one of the roughest feuds in the West. Fifteen men had already died. Barry recklessly decided to take ...



  • The Outlaw

    No Honest Man Ever Knew John Christmas -- And Lived. Who is John Christmas -- so feared for his strength, cunning and ruthlessness, his very name strikes terror? Where does he hide out of justice’s reach? Bob Pensteven has come West to kill C...

  • Slow Joe

    JOE HYDE’S FAMILY HAD NEVER GOTTEN ALONG REAL WELL WITH THE LAW. First, there was the little matter of Joe’s father being claim-jumped. A rich rustler had been turned loose by the sheriff -- even though Joe’s father had the goods on him. Tha...

  • Brothers on the Trail

    TWO MINUTES FROM HELL To stay inside that flaming ranchhouse meant death. To brace the wall of guns outside was the same thing. But even faced with these desperate choices, Bert Willard knew a wild, soaring feeling of triumph. For Willard had b...

  • The Rancher's Revenge

  • Timbal Gulch Trail

    Returning to the Cowtown of West London to take over some inherited range land, Walt Devon strolled out onto the porch of one of the saloons. Suddenly his attention was arrested by the jerking, whirling motions of a glowing cigarette point at the ...

  • Brother of the Cheyennes

    Rusty Sabin was born to white parents but brought up by the Cheyenne Indians, who named the redheaded boy Red Hawk. His ability to heal the sick and to make strange magic is widely honored throughout the tribe. But in his twenties, Red Hawk sets out ...

  • Hunted Riders

    If you shoot a man, and then throw his body in a ravine, and push five tons of rock on the corpse, you expect that man to be dead! No wonder Danny Crossett turned white when he saw the silent form of “Doc” Tolliver riding behind him. Danny ...

  • Rustlers of Beacon Creek

    A quiet lone wolf cowpoke with a cast-iron face arrived in Beacon Creek, and the folks couldn’t seen to find a fitting name for him. Even the sheriff didn’t believe his name could be Alfred Percy Lamb. So they dubbed him with a gentle moniker ...

  • Happy Jack

    Frederick Schiller Faust aka Frank Austin, George Owen Baxter, Walter C Butler, George Challis, Evan Evans, Frederick Faust, John Frederick, Frederick Frost, David Manning, Peter Henry Morland, Max Brand...Max Brand, one of America's most popular and...

  • The Killer Bird Rides



  • South of the Rio Grande

    “You’re a jailbird,” the chief said. “A crooked gambler, a gunman, a yegg. But you know the country. You can ride, and shoot. I’m asking you to cross the border and bring back that outlaw, because you’re all I got. “You’re like ...

  • Six Golden Angels

  • The Streak

  • Trouble Trail

    THERE WAS TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ON MY HEAD Rapp had tried to kill me for it, and as I looked at him lying on the ground, beaten, I smiled. Just then, though I didn’t hear nothing, I felt a sort of quiver run through me, and jerking my head ...

  • Dead or Alive

    The only things Nelson Grey wanted in life were the hard chores of a cattleman and the chance someday to own his own ranch. But Grey’s life-long ambitions changed fast when he was challenged to a dual by Josh Acker, the most feared gunman in the We...

  • The Iron Trail

    Young Eddie Larned earned a hero's welcome for gunning down the two most violent and feared outlaws in the Valley, and for returning the money they stole the bank. And with his reward money, it looked like he would be set for life. But there were two...

  • Singing Guns

    THE SHERIFF AND THE BANDIT Sheriff Caradac had tracked down his man. As he sighted his rifle muzzle on the muscular body of his unsuspecting victim, he realized there wasn't another man in the West like him. For a moment he hesitated.. Then, almos...

  • Fightin' Fool

    HEARTS AND GUNPLAY When Jingo rode into Tower Creek on the day of the little town’s twentieth anniversary, he met love and he met hate, and both brought him trouble. Love he found in the person of lovely Eugenia Tyrrel, whom he danced with in sp...

  • Gunman's Gold

    Sam Shannigan’s BONE-SMASHING STRENGTH had made him a hated legend throughout the Wests. Hard-bitten killers drew their guns when they saw him coming -- and drew too late. But deep inside Sam was a man who respected justice. So when the citizens ...

  • Marbleface

    Involuntarily relinquishing his title as middleweight champion after a heart attack, a solitary man begins a new life of poker and gunfighting and quickly establishes himself as an unbeatable figure. Reprint....

  • Danger Trail

    BAIT: ONE WOMAN! When Tag Enderby broke with Dan Malley’s outlaw gang, Malley swore to kill him. He put his toughest gunslingers on Tag’s trail, but the elusive renegade, armed with two long-barreled “sixes,” outdrew them all. Then Mall...

  • The Dude

  • Riders of the Plains

    A DEADLY, INDOMITABLE TEAM AGAINST THE ENTIRE AVENGING WEST! Though Peter Hale was crippled, injured, and eternally bound to crutches, he fought the town's mockery, revived his father's penniless ranch, and stole the heart of his own brother's int...

  • Wine on the Desert

  • The Border Kid

    The Border Kid would stand out in any crowd of young Mexicans. Not only was Ricardo Perez unusually cunning and brave, but he was fair of skin with hair that blazed like the sun. Outlaw William Benn took no time to recognize Ricardo's talents or to...

  • The Long Chase

    After buying the Finch spread, Tony Braden, a wealthy Englishman much disliked by the people of Indian Bend, is murdered and Traf Kinnard vows to find the killer even if he has to tear the apathetic community apart...

  • Vengeance Trail

    Young Johnnie Tanner didn't know how to shoot, camp out or ride, but with Hank Raney, a grizzled, sharp-shooting cowpoke, he hit the trail. He seemed unprepared for confrontation with the battling Pawnees who lusted savagely after the white man blood...

  • Dr. Kildare's Trial

    SCANDAL AND ACCUSATION THREATEN A BRILLIANT CAREER An on-the-spot emergency operation… An explosive medical secret… Young Dr. Kildare defied his chief, Dr. Leonard Gillespie, the staff of Blair General Hospital, and the legal-medical code ...

  • The Man from Mustang

    Prologue Books presents: A Western thriller from Max Brand.In The Man from Mustang, Silvertip hunts a man whose face he's never seen . . . And whose name he doesn't know!"The explosion of the shot echoed through the saloon. The moment before, a gun h...

  • Silvertip

    A Silvertip Adventure

    It was a one shot kill …But it wasn’t the man Silvertip meant to kill. It was just a kid wearing Bandini’s cape. And while Silvertip wasn’t denying he pulled the trigger, it was Bandini who set the youngster up, sending him out of the saloon ...

  • Silvertip's Strike

    Steve Wycombe was a low-down snake till the day he died … and even after death. To his three worst enemies -- Morris Delgas, Harry Rutherford, and Jim Silver -- he left his land, stock, and cash. It was his last evil plan, shrewd and vindictive. To...

  • Silvertip's Round-Up

    Silvertip’s Roundup is and Old Western tale of adventure told by Max Brand, one of America’s favorite western writers. Brand tells the story of the legendary Arizona Jim “Silvertip” Silver, who shoots fast, stays cook, and brings to justice k...

  • Silvertip's Trap

    At 30, Bill Naylor had spent half his life behind bars. Free again, and while looking for a new job, he saves a man from drowning. The rescued man turns out to be Barry Christian, the outlaw king. Naylor, rewarded with a top job in Christian’s gang...

  • The Fighting Four

    IN THE SNOWS OF IRON MOUNTAIN, JIM SILVER IS UP AGAINST A CUTTHROAT BAND OF KILLERS! Alone in the wilderness, he’d survived on his instincts, with only his stallion and wolf for company. Now the man they called Silvertip had promised to help out...

  • Silvertip's Chase

    The Jaws Of A Ferocious Wolf Guard The Secret Of A Dead Man’s Gold Bill Gary was near death. Blood gushed from the gaping wounds inflicted by the giant wolf who now lay stunned at his feet. Slowly, agonizingly, he drew a diagram, stuffed it insi...

  • Silvertip's Search

    A Silvertip Adventure

    Young Rap Brender had left home after a quarrel with his father. When the old Judge asks Arizona Jim Silver to find his son, the legendary Silvertip agrees because Rap has joined the gang of Barry Christian, the outlaw king and Silvertip’s sworn en...

  • The Stolen Stallion

    Wild horses … evil men! Parade -- a magnificent stallion worth twice his weight in cold cash. And many men had set out to capture this legendary prize. Some never returned. Some came back stony-broke. Others were ruined by desert heat and mountain ...

  • Mountain Riders

    Tom Derry owed Buck Rainey his life -- twice over. When Rainey saved him from an angry bull, Tom thought that here was a good and brave man. When Rainey helped him fight some men who wanted his blood, Tome knew that if there was ever anything he c...

  • Valley Thieves

    At last, Silvertip faces his bitterest enemy -- in a final, deadly showdown! With his great stallion, Parade, and his ferocious wolf, Frosty, the legendary Silvertip brought many a desperado to justice. Yet the vicious outlaw Barry Christian escaped ...

  • The False Rider

    The 1940s classic from the world's most celebrated Western writer!A gun cracked!The lantern in the deserted mine was smashed to bits. Then Jim Silver's great voice boomed through the darkness, "Barry Christian, I've come for you!"Christian screamed, ...

  • Valley of Vanishing Men

    Two men against a gang of killers! Alkali Valley was a lawless desert outpost, known for its gunplay and gold. Ben Trainor rode into town searching for his vanished brother. Within twenty-four hours he had been slugged, shot at, and bushwhacked. ...

  • Flaming Irons

    Les Tarron was just a boy when five strangers rode into his life and changed it forever. Years later -- jailed, hunted and betrayed -- Les felt the hatred burning inside him like a fever and set out to even the score... “No pulp writer was more pr...

  • Hired Guns

  • The Bandit of the Black Hills

    DEATH WAITED! When they heard the Duke was coming back, poker-faced gunfighters gathered for action. The Duke returning after three years in jail. And all he wanted was to be let alone. But the men of Wheeler City would force him to draw iro...

  • Seven Trails

    Outlaw on the Run Son of a famous outlaw, Peter Quince had been in and out of trouble since boyhood. At seventeen he had his first gun fight, pulled his first holdup, and ran off with his first gal. As a man, Peter Quince had blazed a trail of ...

  • The Galloping Broncos

    Men called Tom Gloster A Fighting Fool Danger and fear were words he didn’t know. Odds were something he disregarded. But justice and Revenge meant more to him than life. Now Tom knew that the man he sought was behind the door, waiting with a...

  • Single Jack

    “LAW? There ain’t no law in the town except ME!” In a land of cattle thieves Alec Shodress could make that boast. He ran the biggest store, the biggest hotel and the biggest saloon in town. And if anyone tried to argue, Shodress just whistle...

  • Tragedy Trail

    AMBUSHED! Dobie, the hired killer, pressed the rifle against his shoulder and drew a steady bead on Blondy Graem. “I want to look you over before I finish you off,” he said. “I don’t suppose that you’ve got a stand-up, face-to-fac...

  • The Hair-Trigger Kid

    The kid was handsome, tough - and deadly with a gun... But no man dared tangle single-handed with the cutthroat gang squatting on John Milman's land. Then the kid came around with his guns at the ready and a look in his eyes that made women's hearts ...

  • Border Guns

  • Smiling Desperado

  • Tenderfoot

    Red Anthony’s smile was innocent but his draw was deadly! Red Anthony was a tenderfoot, but the minute he rode into Dodge City he rescued a man from the guns of a dangerous outlaw and saved a girl from the clutches of Diamond Jack Kirby, the tow...

  • The Gambler

    THIS WAS A GAME HE COULD NOT LOSE - HIS LIFE WAS AT STAKE! Tom Corcoran, a gambler by profession and a cheat by inclination, slept with one eye open the night after that blackjack game. He was right to be wary. Into his hotel room an assassin crep...

  • The Invisible Outlaw

    No Honest Man Ever Knew John Christmas -- And Lived. Who is John Christmas -- so feared for his strength, cunning and ruthlessness, his very name strikes terror? Where does he hide out of justice’s reach? Bob Pensteven has come West to kill C...

  • Speedy

    When a ruthless con man takes the train into Durfee, he prepares to use his skills to victimize the townspeople and ride away with a fortune, but he is unprepared to match wits with a man of his own caliber. Reprint....

  • Trail Partners

    BONANZA? OR BUST? When Red Vance learned that Henry Christian had offered $1,500 for some worthless mining stock, he smelled a trick. Christian had a rep for swindling blind men out of pennies. When the gambler raised the ante to ten G’s, ...

  • The Big Trail

  • Blood on the Trail

  • Lucky Larribee

    One man was dead in Lucky Larribee's quest for the almost legendary stallion Sky Blue. How many more would be offered up before this magnificent animal was captured? Or how long would it be before Larribee's enemies put an end to him and Sky Blue wit...

  • The Return of the Rancher

    Serving five years in prison for a robbery and murder that he did not commit, Jim Seton becomes the target of desperadoes who want to keep him silent and prepares to exact revenge against his betrayers. Reprint....

  • The White Cheyenne

    The black sheep and the Indian could fight the world -- and they might have to! Terry Rivers was the black sheep of an aristocratic Southern family. When he headed West, the Law was in hot pursuit. In Zander City he won respect with his whip, fist...

  • Mighty Lobo

  • Tamer of the Wild

  • Dr. Kildare's Crisis

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    DR. KILDARE’S CRISIS Jim Kildare’s great mentor, Dr. Gillespie, couldn’t help him. The gifted intern was faced with the most difficult case of his young career -- a case that would have baffled a team of doctors with ten times his experience...

  • The Garden of Eden

    The thrill, allure and fatal attraction of gambling are brought to life in Max Brand's classic Western, The Garden of Eden. Boxing matches, card games, horse races, and more -- there's nothing that the thrill-seeking hero won't place a bet on. Is his...

  • The Stranger

    Staying alive is worth a thousand dollars a day to Oliver Wilton. That’s what he’s paying Lew Sherry and Pete Long as hired guns to keep him healthy. And after riding the range, the money looks more than just a little inviting. But before Sher...

  • Golden Lightning

    I want you to spy for me... Six-thousand dollars was high pay! It was the highest pay that ever had been offered to Lefty Bill Ranger. And all he had to do was spy on a man named Peter Crosson and his own son Oliver. Ranger didn't care about his empl...

  • The Guns of Dorking Hollow

  • Torture Trail

    THE WORST BOSS A MAN COULD HAVE... He was Bill the Dogman. And Joker Sammy cursed the day he ever laid eyes on the Alaskan sourdough. For the Dogman was obsessed ... driven to breed a dog that could survive the arctic cold. And he drove his hired ...

  • Larramee's Ranch

    The charge was murder -- and now Tom Holden had big trouble on his hands. First, he'd held off the town bully, big Crogan, and his men single-handedly. Then he announced he would marry Alexa Larrame, beautiful blue-eyed daughter of the wealthiest ran...

  • Ride the Wild Trail

    Don Grier was a boy when he set out through the wilderness with a brutal and vindictive taskmaster. But three months later, when the two finally reached Chalmer’s Creek, Don had the toughness and fighting skills of a man. He needed both to su...

  • The Song Of The Whip

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  • Rippon Rides Double

    Tom Paulding was willing to pay five hundred dollars for five days' work. But the job meant that Rippon was in danger of getting his head shot off. Twenty years before, Paulding had killed one of the Barrett Clan. Now the family was offering a lar...

  • The Stingaree

  • Clung

  • Thunder Moon

  • Black Jack

    Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Max Brand, ‘Black Jack’. “The moment he rose out of the chair and faced them, Gainor had stopped short. He was quite capable of fast thinking, and now his glance flickered from Terry to the ...

  • Trouble Kid

  • Ambush at Torture Canyon

    INTO AN INFERNO OF SLOW DEATH! Silas Durfee had been a Texas Ranger, and he’d fought it out with some tough characters. But there had been an outlaw like Spot Lester -- cold, cruel, he’s as soon slit a throat as swat a fly. And now Lester had ...

  • Harrigan

    With gusts of wind fanning it roughly, the flame rose fast. Harrigan made other journeys to the rotten stump and wrenched away great chunks of bark and wood. He came back and piled them on the fire. It towered high, the upper tongues twisting among t...

  • Cheyenne Gold

  • Luck of the Spindrift

  • Big Game

  • Drifter's Vengeance

    “Tramp Royal” That’s what Sheriff Buck Masters called Speedy. The Sheriff was right. Speedy didn’t like to work for a living and he carried a guitar not a gun. He was a king among tricksters. His artful hands could strip and enemy of his w...

  • The Granduca

  • The Phantom Spy

    Lady Cecil was lovely, headstrong, and attached to the British Secret Service. Willie Gloster was a rich American playboy with a taste of danger. Together -- and at great peril -- they had recovered stolen military plans. Their loss might have meant ...

  • Dead Man's Treasure

  • The Outlaw of Buffalo Flat

    Handsome Harry Delancey rode through the hills on his mighty gray horse El Rey, and he overpowered his victims like the swooping hawk that was his dreaded emblem. But behind the dangerous outlaw disguise was Ching Wo, a studious young Chinese man wit...

  • The Last Showdown

    AT TWELVE I WA A MAN, AT TWENTY-ONE I WAS A GUNFIGHTER. I didn’t know that people in town thought of me as a gunman, since it was my job to protect Chandler’s store and the only way I knew how was with a rifle. But everyone in Bostwick knew ho...

  • The Long Chance

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    At twelve I was a man, at twenty-one I was a gunfighter... I didn't know that the people in town thought of me as a gunman, since it was my job to protect Chandler's store and the only way I knew how many men I'd killed, and that most of those men ha...

  • Rawhide Justice

    His lariat was a way of life. But it seemed to be spinning a death trap when it got Reata in debt to Pop Dickerman. Dickerman wanted three things -- Dave Bates, Harry Quinn, and Gene Salvio -- and he wanted them alive. The gypsies had Quinn and kn...

  • Outlaw's Code

    In the old days half the drifters and hard cases in the west ended up in El Paso. It had everything: easy money, easy women, easy laws. But then Marshal Neilan moved in to clean it up.

    He had an ally, a Robin Hood sort of young man, Lawrence Grey...

  • Shotgun Law

    Hugh Alton was land-hungry, and when Vincent Good wouldn't sell his hundred acres, he fell before Alton's blazing guns. Now young Joe Good was out for vengeance, with brains, guts and his lethal black-snake whip. He knew Alton's men were after his hi...

  • The Bells of San Filipo

    Dreaming of making a big strike, miner Jim Gore is amazed when an earthquake reveals a huge treasure in silver and is forced to protect his claim and his hide when an onslaught of fortune seekers quickly swarms in. Reprint....

  • The Reward

    When Ronicky Doone arrives in Twin Springs, he finds himself in the midst of a deadly feud between two rival families. The stakes are high -- honor, revenge, and rich ranch land. Though the townsmen favor the Jenkinses, Ronicky is drawn to the Bennet...

  • Rider of the High Hills

    Odd Man In! Reata had nothing to do with the bank robbery. He’s been going straight until he was lured by lies into recovering the cache of gold the outlaws had stolen. If he returned the loot to the bank, he’s be tight with the Law, but the out...

  • Strange Courage

  • Dr. Kildare Takes Charge

    When Dr. Carew feels his nineteen-year-old son, William, and eighteen-year-old Marguerite Paston are too young to get married, only Dr. Kildare realizes that they are very much in love and old enough to think about dying...

  • Storm on the Range

    Meet Tom Fernald, the gutless sheepherder of Mount Griffon. The townsfolk scorned him for being slow-witted, so he kept to himself, mostly. And Tommy never fought back when it came to bandits - maybe because he had nothing to lose. A freak accident o...

  • Galloping Danger

  • The Man from the Wilderness

  • The Smoking Land

  • Steve Train's Ordeal

  • Wild Freedom

    Max Brand was an American author best known for writing Western fiction.  This edition of Wild Freedom includes a table of contents....

  • 6 Gun Country

  • Six-Gun Country

  • The Revenge of Broken Arrow

  • War Party

  • Thunder Moon Strikes

  • Thunder Moon's Challenge

  • Gunfighter's Return

  • Lawless Land

  • Max Brand's Best Western Stories

  • Gunman's Legacy

  • Rogue Mustang

  • Trouble in Timberline

    When his brawny clumsiness renders him useless for other ranch work, Barney Dwyer is charged by foreman Dan Peary to rescue Peary's son from the influence of a ruthless gang, an assignment that quickly becomes dangerous. Reprint....

  • Gunmen's Feud

  • The Making of a Gunman

  • The Gentle Desperado

  • Mountain Guns

  • The Trail to San Triste

    A hot-tempered young drifter is set up in the Mexican town of San Triste to impersonate the missing heir to the Vereal estate and to clear the way for the theft of the magnificent treasure hidden on the estate...

  • Way of the Lawless

    Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Max Brand, ‘Way of the Lawless.’ A tough lawman is tracking outlaw Andrew Lanning. But the man he believes to be a cold-hearted killer may well have either been framed, or the helpless victim ...

  • Riders of the Silences

    Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Max Brand, ‘Riders of the Silences.’The Great West, prior to the century's turn, abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen whose bullets always magically found their mark, of mighty st...

  • Gunman's Reckoning

    A gunman agrees to do a rich man’s dirty work in this classic Western from one of the genre’s early masters. Introduction by Karl Wurf.“The Shakespeare of the Western range.” -- New York Times Book Review...

  • Montana Rides

    He didn't even have a name. In his own words, he was a tramp. They called him "Kid," "Montana," "Mexico" or "Punch." But manacled in the sheriff's office he wanted to be called Montana, because "it's farther away right now."

    The one thing Montana ...

  • Montana Rides Again

    The Montana Kid, El Keed south of the border, slips a marriage noose to join Mateo Rubriz, prince of Mexican outlaws, in a wild cross-border raid. The target: a gold and emerald crown stolen by the governor of Duraya from the church under his protect...

  • The Border Bandit

    WANTED! Oliver Tay THE BORDER BANDIT WANTED: DEAD -- by a ruthless slave-owning Mexican silver tycoon. DEAD -- by a brave but fooli8sh commander of a U.S. Army garrison. DEAD -- by a great Comanche was chief. But WANTED: ALIVE -- b...

  • King Bird Rides

  • Sixgun Legacy

  • Smugglers Trail

    In jail for counterfeiting, Jack Ripley thinks his trail has ended. But U.S. Marshall Tom Dallas offers him his freedom--for a price.

    In a desperate try for justice, Dallas arranges Ripley's escape, hoping that Ripley can succeed where others hav...

  • Night Flower

    In a large city on the Atlantic seaboard in the 1930's, Charles Pursivant attempts to track down two criminals suspected of plotting the holdup of an armored truck and the theft of more than two million dollars...

  • The Nighthawk Trail

    In a life-or-death challenge south of the Rio Grande, Speedy, disguised as a peon, gains entrance into Bardillo's outlaw army with a plan to retrieve Nighthawk, the famous racing stallion Bardillo had stolen...

  • On the Trail of Four

  • Secret of Dr. Kildare

    HOURS later, and every hour like the weighty length of a day, Kildare was saying: "Next, please!" when Mary Lamont answered: "That's the end of the line for today." He shook his head at her impatiently. "There are twenty more people out there!" he de...

  • Chip Champions a Lady // Forgotten Treasure

    CHIP CHAMPIONS A LADY: When Joe's young friend Chip announced that he was heading south to rescue a beautiful Mexican girl from a deadly outlaw, Joe decided to tag along, never realizing how much he stood to lose -- his heart, his pride, and maybe ev...

  • King of the Range

  • Coward of the Clan

    THEY MADE HIM AN ORPHAN. BUT HE MADE HIMSELF A MAN... The Brett clan had killed his family in a night of brutality and bloodshed that was little more than a blur in Paul Torridon's memory. Then they had adopted him for their own -- the spoils...

  • Red Bandanna // Carcajou's Trail

  • Outlaw Crew // The Best Bandit

  • Range Jester // Black Thunder

    In "Range Jester," three men ride into Loomis Valley one winter evening and by morning, only two will get out alive; and in "Black Thunder," two friends' love for pretty Kate Malone turns them into bitter enemies...

  • The Mountain Fugitive

    A penniless fighter constantly in trouble, Lee Porfilo finds himself framed for murder by wealthy and powerful ranchers and, in a desperate bid to prove his innocence, flees into the wilderness, with the law and bounty hunters in hot pursuit. Reissue...

  • The Trap at Comanche Bend

    FOOL'S GOLD Like a vulture descending on a rottin' corpse Jerry Aiken could smell gold nuggets from a mile away, and he'd do anything to keep his pockets full. A cardsharp, a cattleman, a hired gun -- he'd tried every legal means in the West to ...

  • The Shadow of Silver Tip

    Facing an enemy's return two years after leaving behind a wide trail of crime and murder, Sheriff Algernon Thomas struggles against an outlaw as untouchable as a ghost who threatens revenge against the cowboys of Silver Tip, and Thomas himself. Repri...

  • The Whispering Outlaw

    The Whisperer, a mysterious frontier bandit who never shows his face or speaks in his own voice, recruits a ragtag band of outlaws to assist him in a series of daring robberies designed to make them all rich. Reprint....

  • Blackie and Red

    Blackie and Red were running away from the orphanage when they were found by Andy Connell. He offered them a home with him and his wife.

    The boys were as different as the color of their hair, and each had his own approach to getting ahead in ...

  • Ronicky Doone's Reward

    Ronicky Doone

    Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This is one of his novels....

  • The Return of Free Range Lanning

    In the sequel to Free Range Lanning, Andy Lanning returns to the town of Martindale to claim the woman he loves, only to discover that he must first prove himself to the townspeople who have not forgotten that he is a killer. Reprint....

  • Sixteen in Nome

    Nearing starvation, Joe May, a desperate, overgrown youth, accepts a job helping Hugh Massey, the owner of the most famous husky in Alaska, unaware that he has been made the bait his employer needs to lure a hated enemy into a deadly trap. Reprint....

  • Murder Me!

    Max Brand is generally regarded as the author of superior westerns like his Destry Rides Again, but Brand also wrote the Dr. Kildare series and numerous detective stories as well. St. Martin's Press is delighted to be publishing Murder Me!, a 1937 Br...

  • Western Tommy

    Surrounded by the trigger-happy members of his former gang and the law, lone gunslinger Harry Grant enlists sidekick Tommy Mayo to offer him protection, but the untamed youth's wild spirit proves troublesome. Reprint....

  • The Black Rider and Other Stories

    One of Max Brand's greatest gifts as a storyteller is his ability to create unforgettable, larger-than-life characters. In the novella "The Black Rider," a Navajo named Taki is fluent in four languages, a skilled knife-thrower, a consummate horseman,...

  • Gun Gentlemen

    Finding himself on the wrong side of the law when he is accused of a crime he did not commit, renowned Old West gunslinger Lucky Bill swears that he will clear his name before he can be caught. Reprint....

  • The Mustang Herder

    Perfecting his skills in street fighting and gunslinging, New York-born Gregg heads west in the hopes of making his fortune and is disgusted by his subsequent job as a mustang herder, until a band of thugs offers him the adventure he craves. Original...

  • The Ghost Wagon and Other Great Western Adventures

    "The Ghost Wagon and Other Great Western Adventures" collects four additional short novels by Max Brand not previously published in book form. These novels represent some of the best of Brand's western writing. They illustrate the expansiveness of Br...

  • Outlaws All

    Max Brand is the name by which American author Frederick Faust is best known and loved. His fiction has been proclaimed vital reading for the development of the short story in American literature. Three of his stories appear together in audiobook ...

  • Tiger Man

    The residents of the San Pablo valley fearfully anticipate a deadly showdown between a lone gunman who pursues his own brand of vigilante justice and a band of trigger-happy outlaws who seek to rule the territory. Reprint....

  • Bull Hunter

    Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Max Brand, ‘Bull Hunter.’Hunter was a man who could rip a tree trunk from the ground with his bare hands or tame the wildest stallion with his kind manner. Nobody west of the Pecos would have dared...

  • Fugitive's Fire

    Imprisoned by the Cheyenne, Paul Torridon is nevertheless revered by his captors for his supposed spiritual powers, but suspicious members of the tribe are trying to prove him an imposter, and Torridon must fight to stay alive...

  • The Bells of San Carlos and Other Stories

  • Bull Hunter's Romance

    Faced with the possibility of hanging for his crimes, outlaw Pete Reeve enlists comrade and retired gunman Bull Hunter for help, unaware that Hunter risks losing the woman he loves if he assists his friend. Reprint....

  • The Legend of Thunder Moon

  • The Lightning Warrior

    When Sylvia Baird, a proud woman determined not to marry Cobalt, a fierce warrior, tells him that she will consent to be his wife only if he brings her the pelt of the elusive white wolf also known as the "Lightning Warrior," he succeeds much to her ...

  • The Outlaw Tamer

    Sandy is a gentle giant who would never hurt anyone or anything, but if he is crossed, he can tame any outlaw and outshoot the quickest gunman, and even the lowest outlaws in the country hired to kill Sandy do not stand a chance. Reprint....

  • Donnegan

    Enforcing his own brand of justice with his ever-ready six-gun, Donnegan shoots down everyone who stands in his way and sets his sights on a sidewinder with whom he has a personal score to settle. Reprint....

  • Farewell, Thunder Moon

    The Thunder Moon series represents some of Max Brand’s best work, originally published in 1927"28 as a series of interlocking stories. The University of Nebraska Press is now republishing these stories uncut and in the sequence Faust intended, wi...

  • The One-Way Trail

  • Red Wind and Thunder Moon

    Red Wind and Thunder Moon originally appeared in 1927 issues of Western Story Magazine. In this work, Walking Horse, war chief of the Omissi band of the Cheyennes, pays a mysterious visit to the Suhtai band, among whose foremost chiefs is Big Hard Fa...

  • The Wolf Strain

    In Bared Fangs, the first short novel in this Western trio, Ben Flinder's life is complicated by the arrival of a young woman who is in flight. She is befriended by a wolf, Gray Shadow, but not even he is able to prevent her capture. Gallows Gamble f...

  • Red Devil of the Range

    When young Ever Winton loses the two most important things in his life, his Uncle Clay and Red Pacer--the wildest, most untamable horse in the West--he must ride with the notorious Timberline outside the law, doing whatever it takes to get his horse ...

  • Tales of the Wild West

  • King Charlie

    Striking fear in the hearts of anyone who hears his name and thus staying in control of his area of the Old West, outlaw and renegade leader Charlie sees his reign drawing to a close and decides to find a successor. Reprint....

  • The Stone That Shines

  • Wooden Guns

    Working hard to establish himself as the fastest gun the Western mountains, Big Jim Conover is driven from his home only to return years later, a broken man facing a score of vengeful enemies. Reprint....

  • Men Beyond the Law

    A man who fled a gunfight must come to grips with himself, a young Easterner witnesses the falling out of two bank robbers, and Bull Hunter, a gentle giant, faces opposition to his marriage to a rancher's daughter....

  • Free Range Lanning

  • Slumber Mountain

  • Two Sixes

    A collection of three short novels by one of the greatest western writers contains "The Best Bandit," in which a naive young tenderfoot in a Mexican border town learns some valuable lessons about trusting gunfighters. Original....

  • Beyond the Outposts

    From pre-Civil War Virginia to the distant prairies of the far West, the epic journey of young Lew Dorsey begins as he searches the frontier for his father--an escaped convict on the run-- but finds much more than he was looking for. Reprint....

  • Crossroads

    When he accidentally commits murder and is stalked by a dangerous assassin called El Tigre, Dix teams up with the dangerous and beautiful Jacqueline "Jack" Boone, who is rumored to have bested one of the most notorious gunmen in decades....

  • Luck

    Pierre Ryder, a young Jesuit missionary, forsakes his clerical life to find and seek revenge on the man who killed his father, embarking on a dangerous journey that tests his faith and endurance and leads him to an extraordinary woman who will foreve...

  • The Desert Pilot // Valley of the Jewels

  • The Fugitive's Mission

    THE BEST OF THE WEST

    Max Brand has long been considered one of the finest chroniclers of the Old West. Under his pen, the West and all its characters come alive in full color. Collected here are three of his greatest short novels. The title stor...

  • The Sacking of El Dorado

    An exciting collection of stories includes restored and uncut typescripts and magazine appearances filled with adventures, hardships, and the glory of the Old West, from one of the most renowned Western writers. Original....

  • In the Hills of Monterey

    The wealthiest landowner in the province of Spanish-controlled Alta California has sent away to Spain for a suitable bridegroom for his beautiful daughter, Ortiza Tarabal. Francisco Valdez arrives with his slave, an Englishman known as El Rojo, a cou...

  • Seven Faces

    Police detective Angus Campbell, a dour and methodical Scottish American policeman, cordially disliked his partner, the ebullient and overweight Irish cop Patrick O’Rourke. And the feeling was cordially reciprocated by O’Rourke. Both were annoyed...

  • The Rock of Kiever

    Three of Max Brand's classic short novels, all carefully restored from his own manuscripts, are presented together for the first time in a paperback edition featuring "Range Jester," "Slow Bill," and "The Rock of Kiever." Reprint....

  • The Lost Valley

    A trio of western tales from the master of frontier fiction includes "The Whisperer," in which Reata soon discovers the deadly price one must pay when putting trust in the wrong person, as well as "The Stage to Yellow Creek" and "The Lost Valley." Re...

  • Outlaw Valley

  • Chinook

    GOLD FEVER! The great gold rush of 1898 drew many men to Alaska, each of them determined to find the mother lode and strike it rich. Joe Harney didn't have the experience some of the others had, but he was no less eager and he kept his eyes open. ...

  • The City in the Sky

    When Les Tarron, a young man looking for adventure, meets Doran, a loner on a mysterious errand, Les takes on Doran's job when Doran is shot and puts himself in the crosshairs of a cold-blooded killer. Reprint....

  • The Oath of Office

    A trio of short novels chronicle the western adventures of a young wanderer called Chip as he endures a confrontation with a lynch mob, journeys south of the border to rescue a lovely woman, and makes a dangerous trek across the Nevada desert, with t...

  • The Quest of Lee Garrison

    An encounter with a dying Indian leads Lee Garrison, a young line rider with a fascination for tales of King Arthur and his knights, on the trail of an elusive and legendary gray mustang called Moonshine. Reprint....

  • Soft Metal

    Collected here for the first time in paperback are three of Max Brand's greatest short novels, all restored to their original splendor, just as the author intended. In The Red Bandanna, Clancy Morgan returns to town to warn his best friend, Danny Tra...

  • The Gauntlet

    The friendship of Red Harrigan and Black MacTee is legendary in the Old West -- until they both fall in love with Kate Malone in "The Blackness of MacTee." In "The Gauntlet, " wastrel Joseph Stillwater Larrimee has struck it rich and is on his way to...

  • The Abandoned Outlaw

    A collection of three classic short novels from the master of western fiction includes The Gold King Turns His Back, in which a young woman learns the true meaning of honor; The Three Crosses, in which a showdown occurs, and The A...

  • The Sheriff Rides

  • The Survival of Juan Oro

    He would never know who his parents were or from where he had come. His name is Spanish, but he's an American. After being captured in battle, he is apprenticed to outlaw Matias Bordi. Once a master of weapons, he must kill his mentor. ...

  • Stolen Gold

    An exciting collection of three short novels from the master of Western fiction includes "Sheriff Larrabee's Prisoner," in which a rugged lawman must track a murder suspect even though his daughter believes that the suspect is innocent. Original....

  • The Geraldi Trail

    James Geraldi, a thief who steals only from other thieves, is just about to settle down and marry when he rescues a friend in need, making him an outlaw and sending his future bride into hiding. Reprint....

  • Safety McTee

  • Timber Line

    Includes three of the author's best stories--Above the Law, the first Western story the author wrote; One Man Posse, in which a man named Sleeper survives the untamed frontier with his resourcefulness; and Timber Line, in whic...

  • More Tales of the Wild West

    Six action-packed stories of the Old West, filled with unforgettable characters, includes "A Lucky Dog," in which man's best friend helps a would-be killer and thief find salvation, along with "A First Blooding," "Inverness," and "Death in Alkali Fla...

  • The Gold Trail

    Presents three tales of the frontier by the popular Western author, including the title story, which follows the unforgettable Reata, as he, on the run from the law after a robbery gone wrong, tries to find the real criminals and reclaim his loot. Re...

  • Thunder Moon and the Sky People

    The Thunder Moon series represents some of Max Brand,"s best work, originally published in 1927,“28 as a series of interlocking stories. The University of Nebraska Press is now republishing these stories uncut and in the sequence Faust intend...

  • Gunman's Goal

    THE HONORABLE OUTLAW James Giraldi is that most extraordinary kind of thief, one who steals only from other thieves. In fact, he's running away from one whose pocket he just picked when he meets Louise Asprey. Louise begs Giraldi to help find her ...

  • The Overland Kid

  • The Masterman

    Bob Melville, on the run from the law for a crime he didn't commit, finally gets his chance for revenge against Styeve Christy - the man who framed him - when Christy, wounded and seeking refuge, unknowingly asks Melville's one and only friend for he...

  • The Outlaw Redeemer

    This thrilling volume collects two of Max Brand's best short Western novels, restored from the author's original manuscripts. "The Last Irving" tells of a daring and surprising scheme by a young man to regain the valley lost by his family. And in ...

  • The Peril Trek

    A thrilling trio of novellas celebrates the danger, adventure, and excitement of the Old West and includes The Peril Trek, in which Reata finally escapes from the clutches of criminal mastermind Pop Dickerman and is hired by Bob Clare, a desp...

  • The Bright Face of Danger

    Through the years, James Geraldi has proven to be one of Max Brand's most exciting and enduring characters, and this volume contains three of his greatest exploits. Geraldi has been dubbed the "Frigate Bird" because of his habit of stealing from thie...

  • Don Diablo

    Throughout his career, Max Brand created some of the West's most exciting and beloved characters. Surely one of these is Jim Tyler, an outlaw who has earned a reputation on both sides of the border for boldness and sheer guts. This volume collects, f...

  • The Welding Quirt

    An exciting collection of stories, centering around the Old West, features such unforgettable characters as Skinny, a young teen who can outsmart any man in the West; Sleeper, who is searching for the man who saved his life; and Snoozer Mell who desp...

  • The Tyrant

    While trying to escape the wrath of his controlling and cruel father, Jean Limousin, a master survivalist and gunslinger, heads West to start a new life after losing his fortune in a high-stakes card game. Reprint....

  • The House of Gold

    Max Brand was able to breathe life into his Western characters, and perhaps none was more exciting than James Geraldi, the "honest thief" who stole only from other thieves. In this trio of tales, Geraldi has some of his greatest adventures, including...

  • The Lone Rider

    When Billy Newlands abandons his young bride following a train wreck, he vows to go straight and takes work in a mining camp, but when a woman arrives seeking revenge, Billy will have to own up to his past. Reprint....

  • Smoking Guns

    Two novellas follow James Geraldi as his attempts to retire from his days spent stealing from other thieves are cast by the wayside when an old enemy enters the picture, determined to take him down once and for all. Reprint....

  • Crusader

    Harry Camden came out of the wilderness unwillingly, lured in by a fight manager who knew he had a devastating punch. So Harry drifted into a life of crime, culminating in the theft of the great stallion, Crusader, a horse that no one but he could ri...

  • Jokers Extra Wild

    Anyone making a living on the rough frontier took a bit of a gamble, but no Western writer knows how to up the ante like Max Brand. In "Speedy--Deputy," the title character racks up big winnings on the roulette wheel, but that won't help him when he'...

  • Blue Kingdom

    Carrick Dunmore is a capable man on a horse and in the use of a six-gun. However, he does have a serious handicap. He's hopelessly lazy and prefers to spend his time drinking, playing knives, and just having a good time. Everything would have gon...

  • Flaming Fortune

    The three novellas collected here showcase Max Brand s outstanding ability to create living, breathing characters whose unforgettable exploits linger long after the last page is turned. In The Canon Coward, you ll meet Harry Clonnell, a tracker who r...

  • The Runaways

    Young Sammy wants nothing more than to get out from under the thumb of his overbearing spinster Aunt Claudia. When a tramp named Lefty wanders through town, Sammy is immediately taken in by his skill with a fiddle, his crafty charm and his trained bu...

  • Peter Blue

    Peter Blue was one of the most feared gunmen in the West. But now he's holed up in a small shack, hiding from the world. For he doesn't want anyone to know about the bullet that's destroyed his right hand, his gun hand. He realizes it won't be long b...

  • The Golden Cat

    John Jones has never courted trouble. But his partner Rourke seems to draw it in spades -- like when he agrees to escort a group of tenderfoots to a remote hacienda in the Sierra Negra. First they have to get an ornery old invalid, his beautiful daug...

  • The Range Finder

    James Lang has dedicated his life to perfecting long-range shooting. Though he does have some impressive skills, it's more by pure luck he's taken to be a dead shot and hailed as the next Wild Bill. When one of his new friends asks James to watch ove...

  • Mountain Storms

    When his father dies in a fall in the mountains, twelve-year-old Tommy is left to fend for himself. Through stamina, ingenuity, and a miraculous alliance with a grizzly cub whose mother he helped, the boy survives. When Tommy is older, he and the bea...

  • Hawks and Eagles

  • Trouble's Messenger

    Peter Messenger was made for trouble. He was specially trained in the art of death, even though he'd never killed anyone. But his skills with his hands, a gun, or a knife were undeniable. And there was only one person he planned to use them on: Summe...

  • Bad Man's Gulch

    One sheriff and two deputies have already disappeared in the rough-and-tumble mining town of Slosson’s Gulch. The same fate awaits any other man who crosses the cutthroats and thieves who thrive there. Pedro Melendez is a gambler and a drifter, try...

  • Twisted Bars

    The three short novels in this new Max Brand(r) trio comprise the story of John Penny Thurlow, better known as the Duster. When the Duster arrives in the town of Christmas, he insists that he wants to go straight, to live an ordinary life. He wants t...

  • The Crystal Game

    In "The Fugitive," we encounter Stephen Macdona, who takes the law into his own hands when a wealthy woman decides to try and take what he values most. Tensions arise in "Uncle Chris Turns North" when Willie Merchant falls in love with the financial ...

  • Dogs of the Captain

    When he earns Captain Slocum's respect, Don Grier gets a financial backer for his mission to find the truth surrounding the murder for which his father had been hanged, which leads him to a rough-and-tumble mining town where he must prove himself in ...

  • Red Rock's Secret

    Jessica Fenton Wilson is searching for Speedy, concealing the reason she wants him, just as Speedy has to live in obscurity because of the many enemies on his trail. ...

  • Wheel of Fortune

    A master of western fiction, the author presents a trio of exciting novellas that are filled with action, adventure, and unforgettable characters who discover the gray area between right and wrong. 125,000 first printing. Reprint....

  • Treasure Well

    When the money he saved to pay off his sheep ranch is stolen by a bandit named Bill Ransome, Tom Fernald, forced to find another way to save his land and herd, sets out to find a miser's treasure, which is rumored to be buried in the area. Reprint....

  • Acres of Unrest

    Raising their sons in accordance with disparate values, twin brothers Ross and Andy Hale experience respective financial hardships and successes because of their choices and inadvertently trigger a bitter rivalry between their sons after one is disab...

  • Rifle Pass

  • The Fugitive

    Stephen Macdona fled his home with only two possessions: his talent for survival and his prize mare, Christy. Before he can be charged with a killing he never meant to commit, he's south of the border with a new name. But it's Christy who attracts th...

  • Masquerade

    GUNS AND GANGSTERS, CRIME AND CRIMINALS Max Brand, the pen-name of Frederick Faust (1892-1944) was a master of the fast-action tale with mythic themes including redemption and honor often set in a mythic landscape. He wrote some of his classic wester...

  • Melody and Cordoba

  • Outlaws from Afar

    Speedy has no last name. He’s a loner and drifter. A man who’s been known to outwit and outmaneuver the deadliest of outlaws -- all without using a gun. But Speedy does have a weakness. He can’t resist an invitation to danger. And that’s exac...

  • Rancher's Legacy

    The youngest of seven sons, Flash Baldwin had been a wastrel his entire life. Then he became a man on a mission. His father left him a six-shooter, a thoroughbred, and the charge to avenge his death. When Flash tracked down the killer, he was primed ...

  • Alcatraz, the Wild Stallion

    ONE A HORSE, AND ONE A MAN -- BUT TWO OF A KIND! The might stallion Alcatraz had finally killed his vicious master and escaped. Now, by night, he was a threat to every corral for miles around. By day, he reigned as the incomparable king of the wil...

  • Sign of the Hawk

    The stallion Sedgewick is considered a man-killer, in "The Singular Horseman". He belongs to Elena Casimir-Jones, and she absolutely refuses to have him destroyed. Dyke Vincent, a young rider frustrated with all the talk about Sedgewick, sets out to ...

  • The Good Badman

  • Outlaw's Pursuit

    “Brand practices his art to something like perfection.” -- The New York Times“Max Brand is the Shakespeare of the Western range.” -- Kirkus ReviewsIn “Dust Storm,” Bob Lindsay is stuck in his shack in the Powder Mountains during a huge ...

  • The Love of Danger

  • Nine Lives

    For 22 years Silas Durfee was a Texas Ranger. Finally he quit, wanting instead to try his hand at ranching. Thomas Bunce proposes to hire Durfee as mentor and protector for his nephew, Henry Vincent, to teach him how to hunt and fish, but to prevent ...

  • Destiny Rides Again

    Harry Destry was a rough-and-tumble fighter who never lost a battle. But after six years in jail for a robbery he didn't commit, he comes back a changed man. The townsfolk believe he's beaten. They think all the fight's gone right out of him. And tha...

  • Silver Trail

    At twenty-two, John Signal is old enough to have been in a shooting scrape. It was a fair fight, but the man he killed was well-connected. Fleeing Signal arrives in the mining town of Monument, calling himself John Alias. Almost immediately his ...

  • Curry

    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...

  • The Ghost Rides Tonight

  • The Quest

    Three thrilling tales from one of the masters of frontier fiction!In “Paradise Al,” Brand tells the first of two stories about Paradise Al, a drifter and rambler who has been riding the rails when he jumps off a passenger train just outside of to...

  • Valley of Outlaws

    An outlaw risks life and limb to return a stolen horse to its rightful owner in this classic Western thriller.Shannon, a mysterious outsider, arrived some time ago to the town of Lister and settled into a secluded valley far outside of town. During o...

  • Mountain Made

    Winsor Glanvil pays court to Louise Carney, heiress to a fortune, and she agrees to marry him. The marriage is opposed by big Jack Rutledge, a jealous rival and formidable foe, so Glanvil and Louise plan to be married in a sequestered valley by a loc...

  • Black Thunder

    In “Lawman’s Heart,” Larry Traynor is driving a stage with his shotgun guard, Sam Whitney, the man who has been his mentor in life, when a hold-up occurs. Sam is shot dead. Traynor is determined to bring the thief to justice, but then fate inte...

  • Iron Dust

    Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This is one of his novels....

  • The Sacred Valley

    The thrilling conclusion to Max Brand’s Rusty Sabin trilogy.Born to white parents, Rusty Sabin was taken prisoner and raised by the Cheyennes in Sacred Valley. The Cheyennes know him now as Red Hawk, an admired leader and great warrior. Sabin falls...

  • The Lightning Runner

    Notorious outlaw Lawrence Grey has been captured near El Paso. Marshal Neilan has a proposal for him. Neilan will set Grey free if he tries to locate John Ray, a man who was last known to be living in San Vicente, Mexico. The men Neilan sent previous...

  • The Legend of the Golden Coyote

    “Thunder and Lightning” is the story of two men, Soapy Almayer and Jimmy Clarges. When they go to work in a lumber camp, their extraordinary strength and the speed that they work leads to their being called Thunder and Lightning. Then one man, af...

  • Sky Blue

    Alfred Larribee is sent by his father to live with his cousin's family in the West. Larribee proves to be lazy and shiftless... spending most of his time in town... drinking and gambling... even cheating at cards. What changes all this is the appeara...

  • Outcast Breed

    "Johnny's One Man Invasion" opens this new trio of stories. It was typical of Big Tim Mara, boss of a gang of border raiders, to invite Johnny Stevens to his wedding. Big Tim was marrying the girl Johnny loved -- and Johnny would be there, with his h...

  • Train's Trust

    Steven Train is and has long been a thief and card sharp. He has gone by other names. He is sought out by another crook, John Ranier, with a proposal. Rainer saved a rich rancher, Patrick Comstock, from serious injury and was rewarded with an easy ...

  • The Red Well

    Bad News for Bad Men is just that for the Burwell clan when Jimmy Jones arrives in town to take over the Jasper Journal. Jones s uncle has given him the small-town newspaper because Jimmy s life so far has been divided into two equal halves: In the...

  • Jim Curry's Test

    Young Jimmie 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 ...

  • Son of an Outlaw

    Elizabeth Cornish knew that the outlaw left behind an infant son. She told her brother Vance to find that infant and bring him to her. Calling herself his aunt and Vance his uncle, Elizabeth Cornish raised the boy she called Terry Colby. Vance was sk...

  • Rusty Sabin

    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. His ability to heal the sick and make strange magic were widely honored throughout the tribe. But in his twenties, Re...

  • Lightning of Gold

    In this dramatic and uncanny story, Lefty Bill Ranger is an Alaskan mail carrier. Lefty Bill Ranger reaches Circle City one night in a terrific snowstorm. There he meets Menneval -- a man who is widely feared throughout the territory -- and is offere...

  • Gunfighters in Hell

    Three great stories of the American West available for the first time in hardcover book format. In "The Gunless Gunman" Tom Dallas has changed his way of living. All the shootings in which he was involved were justified, but there are many who wa...

  • Red Hawk's Trail

    With a reputation for being a troublemaking gunfighter‚ John Sherburn ends up in Amityville‚ Texas‚ where to his surprise an immediate friendship develops with Peter Gresham‚ the most successful businessman in Amityville. Gresham has only ...

  • Bandit's Trail

    Don Sebastian Valdivia and his secretary, Juan Carreno, attend a horse auction at the Garrison Ranch, where and outlaw stallion, Twilight, is held back until last. The only man who can ride this magnificent beast is Charles Dupont, known as the Crisc...

  • The Ten-Foot Chain

    SOME time ago I was dining with four distinguished writers. Needless to say where two or three authors are gathered together with a sympathetic editor in their midst, the flood-gates of fancy are opened wide. In an inspired moment, Dr. Means tossed t...

  • The Fugitive: And Other Stories

    A WESTERN TRIO In the title novella of this collection, Stephen Macdona fled his home with only two possessions: his talent for survival and his prize mare, Christy. Before he can be charged with a killing he never meant to commit, he's south of the...

  • Thunder Moon and Red Wind

    The Thunder Moon series represents some of Max Brand’s best work, originally published in 1927"28 as a series of interlocking stories. The University of Nebraska Press is now republishing these stories uncut and in the sequence Faust intended, wi...

  • Sun and Sand

    Three exciting stories brought together for the first time in this hard cover edition! In THE FLAMING RIDER three tribes of Indians are camped around Fort Meany, having come there to trade their wares. They love most of all to gamble, and what better...

  • Old Carver Ranch

    After ten years of wandering, during which he has lived the life of a gambler and learned the ways of devious men, Tom Keene returns home, only to find his father alone and dying. Old John Keene's sole legacy to his son is a Bible....

  • The Double Rider

    'The Double Rider' first appeared under the title 'Rippon Rides Double' as a six-part serial in Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine (10/18/30-11/22/30)--T.p. verso. ...

  • The Wolf and the Man

    There is a $2,500 reward for the head of the killer wolf, Gray Cloud. When Dave Reagan, considered little better than a half-wit by all who know him, finds the wolf held in his traps, something in the fearless animal's eyes keeps Dave from killin...

  • Saddlemates

    Edward Dugan left his home in Boston with a bequest from his father -- mining certificates giving him ownership of the Christobel mine. Although they have a face value of $250,000, the mine has been declared worthless. However Henry Christian, the ma...

  • Out of the Wilderness

    Peter Dunstan is a big rancher who wants to become bigger, to control more land. So when he buys Dr. Henry Morgan's ranchland that has been unsuccessfully converted to farming, it is his intention to return it to open range. The only stipulation the ...

  • The Trail Beyond

    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 A...

  • The Tracker

    Tom Fuller a scrupulously honest fellow, a person of extraordinary physical strength, and owner of a savage horse, Rusty, that he alone was able to tame is generally regarded as a half-wit. He has been summarily fired from every job he has ever had a...

  • Rodeo Ranch

    This audiobook contains two of legendary Western author Max Brand's short novels for your listening pleasure. The Valley of Jewels Doc Willis, despite the nickname, is just an unemployed cowboy in Daggett Valley, a place that holds many secrets f...

  • Jingo

    On the day that Jingo rode into Tower Creek, the town was busy celebrating its twentieth anniversary. At the moment the big event was a high stakes poker game in Joe Slade's saloon with Wally Rankin holding most of the chips. That is, until Jingo joi...

  • Kingbird's Pursuit

    Known only as Kingbird and riding a black mare named Molly that has proven she can outrun any horse on the range, the notorious outlaw again gets a chance to prove himself impervious when he becomes the focus of an all-out pursuit by Marshal Jim Hamp...

  • The Winged Horse

    He was a young man, but someone with a very bad reputation. He was known by many names -- as The Doctor around Denver, in Texas he was known as Montana, and in Idaho he was called Texas. Sometimes he was called The Lonesome Kid, or just The Kid becau...

  • Above the Law

    HER eyes were like the sky on a summer night, a color to be dreamed of but never reproduced. From the golden hair to the delicate hands which cupped her chin a flower-like loveliness kept her aloof from her surroundings, like a rare pearl set in base...

  • The Cure of Silver Canyon

    Max Brand was an American author best known for writing Western fiction.  This edition of The Cure of Silver Canyon includes a table of contents....

  • Jerico's Garrison Finish

    Max Brand was an American author best known for writing Western fiction.  This edition of Jerico’s Garrison Finish includes a table of contents....

  • The Power of Prayer

    Max Brand was an American author best known for writing Western fiction.  This edition of The Power of Prayer includes a table of contents....

  • Ronicky Doone's Complete

    He came into the town as a solid, swiftly moving dust cloud. The wind from behind had kept the dust moving forward at a pace just equal to the gallop of his horse. Not until he had brought his mount to a halt in front of the hotel and swung down to t...

  • The Receding Brow

    Solve -- if you dare -- the grim enigma of the shaggy-browed monster from the dawn of Earth -- who spoke with human tongue... In February 1919 Max Brand published "That Receding Brow" in the magazine "All Story Weekly"---a story ...

  • A Shower of Silver

    When an innocent train passenger is framed for murder, it's going to be a hanging offense -- unless someone is willing to step up and prove his innocence. A classic western by Frederick Faust (Max Brand), originally published in 1921 under the title&...

  • The Western Double

    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, wanted him to be strong and able to fend for himself, so he woul...

  • Clovelly

    Michael Clovelly might not have been the greatest swordsman ever to come to London town during the reign of the Merry Monarch, Charles the Second, but if a better man ever wielded a blade, he had not yet stepped forth to claim the distinction.Seeking...

  • The Boy Who Found Christmas

    This eBook edition of "THE BOY WHO FOUND CHRISTMAS & THE MAN WHO FORGOT CHRISTMAS" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices."It was snowing. A northwester was rushing over the mountains. As the s...

  • Cross Brand

  • Daring Duval

    Within ten days of stepping out of the woods near the town of Moose Creek, Duval is the most popular man in the district. After all, what’s not to like? He is a good listener, generous with his money, a great cook and host, and a hard worker on old...

  • Blondy

    "Blondy" is a 1924 short story originally published in Colliers -- a change of pace for Max Brand, as its western hero is paired with a dog. “No pulp writer was more prolific than Frederick Faust, who wrote nearly 15 million words under the pen na...

  • Sunset Wins

    When Happy Jack in “The Gift” learns that Sandy Crisp was behind the killing of his pal Jackson, a married man and the father of three, he hunts him down at his cabin. Feeling fear for the first time, as Happy Jack tries to taunt him into a fight...

  • Torturous Trek

    On a cold, gusty night in Circle City, Alaska, Sammy Day walks into Nagle’s Bar. He is only twenty-two, but he has been on his own for ten years. He has worked cattle from Montana to Chihuahua, but a little “accident” at a poker table in Montan...

  • Jigger Bunts

    Tom Reynard, ramrod for the Bar L, has a hard time each autumn finding cowpunchers willing to work the winter range in the bleak badlands near the Sioux reservation. So when Jigger Bunts, an eighteen-year-old familiar with riding and roping, showed u...

  • Dust Across the Range

    Dust storms, water shortages, and barbed wire -- all the ingredients needed for a range war! A classic short novel by Max Brand, originally published in The American Magazine in 1937....

  • Magic Gun

    Hugh Collier in “The Danger Lover” feels he is living an empty life as a little more than competent bank employee in the town of Stanton. He decides to leave behind a life that for him was a “caricature and savage cartoon of the beautiful tr...

  • Sour Creek Valley

    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 prison’s chaplain helps educate him, tries to...

  • The White Streak

    Recently, a number of Western stories have been discovered among Max Brand's unpublished works and the first story in this book, The White Streak, is one of them. Its protagonist is twenty-one-year-old Jimmy Babcock, a former football star, but now a...

  • Bandit's Honor

  • Battle's End // The Three Crosses

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    Once, Hugh Massey and Arnie Calmont were partners and friends. Now they are bitter enemies, torn apart by their love for the same woman - and their hunger to possess Alec, one of the greatest, most powerful dogs in the Yukon. But Alec has gone wild, ...

  • Calling Dr. Kildare

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    Dr. Gillespie searched the nation’s medical centers for an assistant he could trust to carry out his great work. Dr. James Kildare seemed the ideal choice. But first Kildare had to undergo trial by fire. His assignment: the slums of New York, wh...

  • Catherine

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  • The Desert Pilot

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    The town of Billman was known for its lawlessness, but Reverend Reginald Ingram arrived with high hopes to defeat the power of the saloons and the gunsmoke. It was when young Astrid Vasa introduced him to the idea of sticking up for himself against a...

  • Dr. Kildare's Search

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    Decision to Operate Dr. Kildare took full responsibility for the dangerous brain operation -- even after the patient had legally refused surgery. The operation succeeded, but the patient lost his will to live. Now, if Jim Kildare couldn’t fin...

  • Frontier Feud

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    A Life Saved is a Life Given An Indian is forever indebted to the man who saves his life. Bill Tenney had rescued Red Hawk from a watery death; Red Hawk must then rescue Bill, who had been flogged for theft and imprisoned in a Fort Marston cell. ...

  • King Charlie's Riders

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  • Lost Wolf

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    Glanvill Tucker, raised as a Cheyenne after his parents are killed, and known as Lost Wolf, returns to his own people and finds that the skills of an Indian warrior put his life in danger. After the Cheyenne slaughter his pioneer parents, a young ...

  • One Man Posse

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    Sleeper was little more than a range derelict, a kid who was too lazy to ride the grub line. But what he wanted he usually got, as in the case of the great golden stallion named Careless, for whose ownership half a hard-shooting country was willing a...

  • The Rescue of Broken Arrow

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    Now he remembered the words of the crafty white captain -- your skill with weapons was patiently acquired not to defend yourself, but to hand down your fellow men like beasts. He remembered the words -- and struck! He felt the blade go home with w...

  • Valley of Jewels

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    Beautiful Daggett Valley was pitted with waiting danger. It was here that Buck Logan plotted to con a half-witted old man into revealing where he had hidden a cache of jewels worth thousands. But schemes don’t always go according to plan, and this ...

  • Black Signal

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  • Man from Savage Creek

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  • Out of the Dark

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    When he recovered his senses, it would be difficult to shoot effectively in the dark, for this was not the gloom of night -- it was an absolute void, black, thick, impenetrable. She could not make out her hand at the slightest distance from her eyes....

  • Three on the Trail

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Max Brand has published 360 books.

Max Brand does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Bandit's Honor, was published in August 2021.

The first book by Max Brand, The Untamed, was published in January 1919.

Yes. Max Brand has 2 series.
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