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The Jericho mountain race - five hundred miles of spongy desert sand and impossible rocks and mountain cliffs. It takes a special breed of man, riding a very special horse, to win that grueling contest. Colonel Robert Dinsmore knows he has the horse that can do it - Crusader, a magnificent black stallion. Master storyteller, Texas-born and raised Barry Corbin, horseman, rancher, and star of the hit TV series Northern Exposure reads this classic Western story by Max Brand.

James Gerald Melrose, better known as Bad-Eye, was a big-headed, bad-drunk transplanted Easterner who was accidentally killed in a barroom fight in Masters’ bar and hotel. One day, Jane Melrose arrives in search of him. She is one very determined woman, and Masters does everything he can to keep her from learning the truth. The task comes with a price, a high one, that Masters realizes that he will pay, but only when it is too late!

It was a fool thing to do, but Jack Trainor did it. In order to help keep his sister's husband from going to jail for robbery, Jack agrees to ride out on the getaway horse, drawing suspicions away from his brother-in-law and onto himself. But eluding the posse that follows him in hot pursuit turns out to be much harder than Jack had thought. And he was not prepared to survive the winter in the Canadian wilderness.

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. Being inside most of the time, he knows little of the town and its inhabitants. A stranger named Sam Prentiss begins showing up at 8 p.m. every Saturday night to sit in a chair in the shop’s doorway and look across the street for an hour. Their conversations, though limited, begin to set Dikkon’s mind to work and before long he decides he wants to buy a gun.

Recently, a number of Western stories have been discovered among Max Brand’s unpublished works and the first story in this book, "The White Streak", is one of them.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 21-year-old Jimmy Babcock, a former football star, but now a worker at the local bank run by William Parker in the town of Dresser, which has changed from cattle country to one made up of oil and alfalfa fields. When Parker fires Jimmy, all Jimmy can think is how he will hurt Muriel Aiken, his fiancée, who wants to marry.

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 pen names, around twenty of them, a great many of them wild Westerns. This one that features a drifter named Donnegan. He gets off a train and takes on a job with a rich man who doesn’t seem to care much about the difference between rights and wrongs.

The son of a notorious outlaw is adopted into a wealthy, law-abiding family as an infant after his father is killed in an attempted robbery. Will he follow in the footsteps of his outlaw father or will his life be guided by the respectable woman who nurtured him to manhood? Another exciting tale by the master of the pulp western, Max Brand.

Versatility was a key talent of author Frederick Faust using the pseudonym Max Brand. What you’re about to hear is one of his lesser known stories that ranks as a prime example of his stupendous ability.

"Alcatraz" by Max Brand is a Western novel that follows the tale of youthful farmer Hal Dozier, who sets out on a tenacious mission to find a famous fugitive named Alcatraz. Known for his shrewdness and heartless nature, Alcatraz isn't just a dreaded crook yet in addition a wild steed that has been difficult to catch or tame. Hal faces various difficulties as he leaves on this pursuit, testing his abilities, tolerance, and strength. The clever weaves subjects of opportunity, vengeance, and the ferocity of both man and nature. Brand's story consolidates serious activity with rich portrayals of ...