Max Brand

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....

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

Peter Dunstan is a big rancher who wants to become bigger, to control more land....

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....

A collection of classic Western tales including Tappan's Burro by Zane Grey, Jargan M by Max Brand and The Trail to Crazy Man by Louis L'Amour....

Smoke Bellew enters a remote Mormon settlement only a jump ahead of a posse. Finding employment as a ranch hand working for a dowager Mormon....

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....

Every fall Tom Reynard had a hard time finding cowpunchers willing to work the winter range in the bleak badlands near the Sioux reservation. So when Jigger Bunts, an 18-year-old from New York who was familiar with riding and roping, happened along, he was hired despite his youth....

Winsor Glanvil pays court to Louise Carney, heiress to a fortune, and she agrees to marry him....

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....

"Steady, Borgen," said a terrible and familiar murmur behind him. "Steady, man. If you turn, I shoot."...

When Harry French left home he was just another kid looking to make his way. But when he comes back four years later, things are different. He's different. Or at least the town thinks so. Now nobody looks him in the eye....

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....

This bundle features “The Danger Lover” and the title story, in which 22-year-old Lewis Dikkon has led a sheltered life, working seven days a week as a shoemaker for his taskmaster uncle, Charles Bender....

When Andrew Apperley visits his brother David in the East, he brings along an unexpected companion. Andrew's giant wolf dog, Comanche, is so wild that he has to be chained up for the safety of others....

Tom Dallas has changed his way of living. All the shootings in which he was involved were justified, but there are many who want his scalp which prompts him to make a vow that he will not pack bullets in his .45 for a year....

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....

Found among a group of unpublished works by Frederick Faust, these two Western stories both deal with cowardice....

A collection of timeless Westerns from some of the most well-known authors of the genre....

Rusty Sabin was a child when Cheyenne Indians raided the Sabin homestead and killed his mother....