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(0)Max Brand
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The fifty empty freights danced and rolled and rattled on the rough roadbed and filled Jericho Pass with thunder, the big engine was laboring and grunting at the grade, but five cars back the noise of the locomotive was lost. Yet there is a way to talk above the noise of a freight train just as there is a way to whistle into the teeth of a stiff wind. This freight-car talk is pitched just above the ordinary tone-it is an overtone of conversation,...
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Max Brand's first novel and one of the first in the genre of Westerns along with Zane Gray. Has everything a Western needs: a unbeatable stallion, other horses, a semi-tamed wolf, a young lady "purtier than any filly", unbounded plains, hills, and mountains, untamed skies and weather, and of course--desperados. (Goodreads)
4) The Untamed
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With uncanny abilities, Whistlin' Dan Berry keeps the toughest of situations under control. The protagonist of Brand's first western novel was radically different from earlier, more realistic characters. In 'The Untamed', readers are introduced to the modern conception of the west as a violent world of fairy tale.
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The Great West, prior to the century's turn, abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen, whose bullets always magically found their mark, of mighty stallions, whose tireless gallop rivaled the speed of the wind, of glorious women, whose beauty stunned mind and heart. But, nowhere in the vast spread of the mountain-desert country was there a greater legend told than the story of Red Pierre and the phantom gunfighter, McGurk.
These two...
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Published in 1919, this tells the story of Andrew/Andy, raised by his uncle to shoot and ride horses. Andrew is content with living a quiet life in a Western town, until a bully picks a fight. Andy knocks him out, and the guy hits his head on a rock. Andy goes on the run, thinking he's a murderer and subconsciously gravitating towards the lawless sector. (Goodreads)
7) Trailin'!
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Twists and turns abound as a man with no prior wilderness experience tracks the cold, calculating killer of his father across the open plains and mountains of the Wild West.
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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. However, when the Apperley brothers come across a man drowning in the East River, Comanche breaks loose from his chains and swims to the man's rescue.
In fact, this man, Single Jack Deems, is a convict who has just escaped from Blackwell's Island. Deems...
9) Harrigan!
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In a unique departure from the Western genre Brand is famous for, 'Harrigan!' is a 'jolly good' romance at sea, with all the action and adventure readers would expect, including shipwrecks, mutinies, and good old-fashioned fighting.
10) Black Jack
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After an outlaw is killed, his baby son is adopted by his lover. What will become of this boy? Brand keeps the reader in suspense as this classic tale of good versus evil, in the same person, unfolds.
11) Alcatraz
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A horse who had been bred to race escapes his masters home and gets used to freedom, but at a terrible price. Can he survive those who are trying to hunt him down? Nothing proves straightforward as the hunt closes in.
12) Bull Hunter
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Bull Hunter is a big, strong, gentle man who means no harm to anyone, but there are people who mean to harm him. They find Bull a tough man to beat.