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Montana Rides!
Max Brand, Evan Evans

Amereon Ltd, 1975

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 did have was a reputation. He said he was only crooked with crooks. The sheriff thinks different, but can't prove it. He lets Montana go, but it isn't long before a local cattle baron's long-lost son ...

The Hi Lo Country
Max Evans

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999

Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan

8 reviews
Max Evans

University of New Mexico Press, 2004

Read as social history
Ignore the book's subtitle, cover and back cover copy. Madam Millie is not about bordellos or lurid sex detail. It's about a tough, wise, loveable woman. There are a few funny incidents -- as when a cat attacks a delicate portion of a bishop's anatomy -- but today they seem rather tame. Millie's long life was never ordinary. Orphaned at a young age, she was saved from juvenile justice by Harry ...

The Virginian (Signet Classics)

31 reviews
Owen Wister

Signet Classics, 2002

The Gentleman in Medicine Bow
"The Virginian" is a masterpiece. While it is a novel, based largely on Wister's conception of the cowboy, the Virginian had a face to him; and it's story line is firmly based in fact. Some of the original sites, such as the "Goose Egg" ranch (the dance and switching of the babies) are actual historical spots - parts of the the old stone ranch house were still standing in the 1960's and ...

This Chosen Place: Finding Shangri-LA on the 4Ur
Max Evans

University Press of Colorado, 1997

For the Love of a Horse

1 review
Max Evans

University of New Mexico Press, 2007

another wonderful book by Max Evans
Having read all of Max Evan's books and loving every one of them, For the Love of a Horse was a "must have". Max is not just a wonderful writer, he has been there and done it, a true cowboy in every way. I know a lot of the country his books are about, and as he, am in awe of this harsh but spectacular Northeastern New Mexico land. "For the Love of a Horse" is about special horses Max has ...

The Song of the Whip

1 review
Max Brand, Frederick Schiller Faust, ...

Amereon Ltd, 1976

Best Western I Ever Read
Frederick Faust, Max Brand and Evan Evans--and an assortment of other names--were one fantastic feast of American "Westerns" for me. Only Faust was a "real" person but Harrison Destry and a stageful of others became personal heroes to this then-young reader and I recall the paperback SONG OF THE WHIP as the cream of the cream--the best western I ever read!

Rounders 3
Max Evans

University Press of Colorado, 1997

First published in 1960, the best selling novel The Rounders was immediately recognized as a rollicking classic of western fiction. The story of Dusty Jones and Wrangler Lewis, the "stove-up" cowboys whose luck is consistently bad, inspired a popular movie starring Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda, and a television series. In this edition of Rounders 3 , all three of Evans's classic Rounders tales are here, The Rounders, The Great Wedding, and ...

Rescue of Broken Arrow

1 review
Max Brand, Evan Evans

Amereon Ltd, 1976

Slow mover with very little going for it.....
This is the third Max Brand paperback I've read lately. If "Rescue of Broken Arrow" had been my first, it might have been my only. The storyline moved extremely slow. The author's use of flowery prose seemed a little out-of-place for a true western (i.e., "Then the green of the woods closed over them, joining above their heads in green Gothic vaults, crossed with lierne and ogive faintly open ...

Smuggler's Trail
Max Brand, Frederick Schiller Faust, ...

Amereon Ltd, 1975

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 have failed to capture the West's most murderous band of smugglers. For the first time in his life, Ripley's guns are shooting for the law, not at it!

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