Max Brand

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

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

Dick Rutherford, known simply as the Colonel, had set out into the West to find his fortune, accompanied only by his young companion, Christy Deever. But it looked like the frontier would provide more danger than money...until the Colonel and Christy met Stone-That-Shines....

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....

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....

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....

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.

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....

Barney Dwyer is a gentle giant who has yet to find a place in the world. Capturing two notorious outlaws has made a hero of him....

The snarling wolf swept from the hills to Tucker Crosden's spread. It slaughtered his dogs...but one survived. For the dog called White Wolf was different, born and bred to be a champion...