Western Young Lew Dorset is a runaway from his uncle s tyranny following his father s daring prison break. He heads to the Far West because that is where his father has gone to lose his identity. After their freight train is attacked ...
John Scovil had brought his daughter out west to snap her out of her lethargy, but nothing he did could stir her interest in the wild surroundings.Deciding a staged kidnapping might awaken her spirit, he hires a handsome young rogue t...
From legendary Western author Max Brand comes a collection of stories about a slave, a jewel thief, and a captive.In "Master and Man," Bobbie is a black man who can outride, outfight, and outshoot any white man in the mounta...
[Read by Barry Press] 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, ...
The mining certificates granting ownership of the Christabel mine that Edward Dugan inherited from his father had a face value of $250,000, but the mine itself had been declared worthless. Still, Henry Christian, the man that had sold...
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 no...
The orphaned son of an infamous outlaw is chosen to inherit a wealthy ranch, but not if the ranch owner’s jealous brother exposes the boy’s true heritage!Black Jack Hollis was a daring outlaw before he was shot down. In the wake o...
Unlikely hero Sammy Gregg has never met a challenge he won’t face head on, but he hasn’t met outlaw Chester Furness!Born in Brooklyn, Sammy Gregg is small in stature and naive to the ways of the world, yet headstrong and resolute ...
Jim Gore prospects the barren hills of the southwest, dreaming of striking it rich. He is a man as lonely and forgotten as the nearby ghost town itself, San Filipo. That is, until an earthquake uncovers the abandoned town's long-gua...
Lew Sherry and Pete Lang accept an offer they simply can’t resist. Oliver Wilton is willing to pay the cowboys $1,000 a day for ten days to protect him from danger that has him living in a state of terror. A seafaring man has arrive...
Rusty Sabin was a child when Cheyenne Indians raided his homestead and killed his mother. Raised thereafter by Spotted Antelope and Bitter Root, Rusty, now known as Red Hawk, refuses the compulsory and brutal initiation into the tribe...
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"&...
Barney Dwyer was a powerful and good-natured young cowpuncher. Unfortunately, his hands were so strong that he broke almost every farm tool he touched. Finally his hot-tempered ranch-owning boss, Dan Peary, lost his patience and fir...
Bull Hunter was a young western boy of unusual size who eventually became known as the “Gentle Giant.” Because of his stature and prodigious strength, along with a sort of natural timidity, Bull was often derided, even by ...
Frederick Faust (pen name Max Brand) was said to have written in excess of twenty-five million words as he seemed to have a button to push to generate fictional ideas. Of course, it’s known that much of his work was issued under...
Every fall Tom Reynard, ramrod for the Bar L, 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 eighteen-year-old from New York who was fami...
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 carto...
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, so...
The wounded outlaw blurted out the warning to range boss Jim Seton, and Seton knew that if he wasn't careful, the man's words would prove true; Doug Walters' men were out for his blood. After five years in prison, Seton dared to retu...
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 ...
Lew Weldon has spent his life being a tumbleweed and rolling where the wind blows him. Up to Canada, down to Mexico, through deserts, forests, and mountains; anywhere fortune could be found. Those travels helped earn him a reputation ...
Versatility was a key talent of author Frederick Faust using the pseudonym Max Brand. Two of his top selling western novels, The Untamed and Bull Hunter, are Blackstone audiobooks narrated by John Rayburn. This story is part of this p...
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 l...
Nobody really knows Whistling Dan Barry, not even old Joe Cumberland, who found him as a boy wandering alone in the desert, and raised him as a son. Slight of build, mild of manner and voice, the only man who can ride his wild stallio...
The White Streak : A Western Duo
Max BrandRecently, 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 Babcoc...
This Western trio shows Max Brand's compassion for, and tremendous ability to create, memorable animal characters, such as the wolf Gray Shadow.