Max Brand
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Hugh Collier in "The Danger Lover" feels he is living an empty life as little more than a 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 truth that life may be" and heads into the mountains alone, carrying only the essentials on his horse. Even though his efforts at hunting and fishing prove to be failures in the early days, he keeps his spirits up...
82) Above the Law
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Pub. Date
c1995
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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 metal. Her companion, young and darkly handsome, crumpled in a hand, scarcely less white than hers, the check which the waiter had left. In the mean time he gazed with some concern at his companion. Her...
84) Sixteen in Nome
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Sixteen in Nome is narrated by young Joe May, an Arizonian who has come to Alaska to 'make his stake for a ranch.' Joe finds being on his own difficult as he reflects 'Sixteen is a bad age for a boy. It is too full of growing and not enough full of strength.' Joe's coming of age story in Alaska during the gold rush of the 1890's is an intertwining backdrop to the conflict between Hugh Massey and Arnie Calmont.
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Year in and year out, Jim Gore wandered the barren hills of the Southwest, dreaming of mining the mother lode. Yet for all his schemes and hard work, the cunning saddle bum never figured on an earthquake uncovering a huge treasure in silver - and plunging him neck deep in dollars and danger. It seemed that Gore wasn't the only hombre who had a claim on the loot, and if he ever ran out of bullets, he wouldn't be the only fortune hunter buried in the...
96) Blondy
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Pub. Date
2018
Description
"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 name of Max Brand and seventeen others. He sold all his stories and sometimes wrote complete issues of Western Story Magazine.” -- The Incredible Pulps
97) Flaming Irons
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Pub. Date
2018
Description
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 prolific than Frederick Faust, who wrote nearly 15 million words under the pen name of Max Brand and seventeen others. He sold all his stories and sometimes wrote complete issues of Western Story Magazine.”...
98) Larramee's Ranch
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Pub. Date
2018
Description
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 rancher around -- even though he'd never even met her! -- “No pulp writer was more prolific than Frederick Faust, who wrote nearly 15 million words under the pen name of Max Brand and seventeen others....
99) Gunman's legacy
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Pub. Date
1996, 1959
Description
A devil-may-care adventurer, Flash Baldwin is his father's most undependable son - and his favourite. When Old Man Baldwin is shot, Flash's only inheritance is a six-gun. The legacy is clear - get his father's killer.
100) The longhorn feud
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Pub. Date
1997, 1932
Description
Barry Litton lay on the earthern floor with a bullet in his ribs. Outside waited his old enemy Rann Duval.