Audiobooks by Max Brand

Max Brand (Author), Digital Voice Archie G (Narrator)

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"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 story is jam-packed with love, lies (lots of them), action aplenty and some humor added here and there. This book enables you to listen to all of this Max Brand classic Western."

Max Brand (Author), John Rayburn (Narrator)

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The Tenderfoot

"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 prodigious output, a tale of a hapless youth seemingly with no talents or work ability. He fell into bad hands and was captured, accused of murder, and scheduled for execution. A pardon led to freedom and a happy ending. Faust used twenty-one different pen names because one of his outlets, Western Story, would sometimes print several of his stories in one issue and it was thought using the same name for all of them would be poor marketing. Faust had labored on brutal ranches in California during an orphaned boyhood. This led to his vast knowledge of what it was like in the days of the old West and its inhabitants. He was able to bring to literary life an exciting period of the nation’s history. Writing literally millions of words he became known as “The King of the Pulps.” He wrote not only westerns, but such diversified tales as legends, allegories, romance, even some poetry. A restless nature led to him becoming a war correspondent in WWII when he was fifty-years-old. He went to the front in Italy, joining soldiers in rain and mud. He was hit by shrapnel during a battle and died of his wounds at age fifty-one. What you’re about to hear is one of his lesser known stories that ranks as a prime example of his stupendous ability."

Max Brand (Author), John Rayburn (Narrator)

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Bull Hunter

"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 his cousins, as being “slow” mentally. Eventually, he met and was befriended by a famous gunfighter who taught him how to use a gun. That changed a lot of derogatory opinions about him, and he didn’t get bullied anymore. This is the story of the adventures of Bull Hunter, a Western story, of course, but also a close look at the the unique central character. The author was Max Brand, one of the pen names of Fredrick Faust, who used more than eighteen of them through his career, writing not only Westerns but also historical fiction, detective mysteries, and spy novels, in an estimated thirty million words over the years. Max Brand became so well known as a writer of Westerns that the name became famous on its own merits. Listen now to an example of the exceptional Faust/Brand literary ability."

Max Brand (Author), John Rayburn (Narrator)

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The Untamed

"This was the first effort by Frederick Faust aimed at writing a western, and he used the pen name of Max Brand to produce it. There was a different style of literary focus, a variance that brought forth feelings of melodrama. However, as the story developed, that impression was changed drastically with startling examples of action, conflict, and revenge that set it apart. It was regarded as one of his most successful efforts in a career that produced perhaps as many as twenty-five to thirty million words, resulting in well more than five hundred novels and short stories. This huge output made Faust one of the most prolific writers in history, and he wrote under at least a dozen pen names with Max Brand as the most prominent. What made it more astonishing is that he died at age fifty-one after being mortally wounded by shrapnel while serving as a war correspondent in WWII. Listen now to what made literary history."

Max Brand (Author), John Rayburn (Narrator)

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Luck and a Horse: A Western Duo

"Found among a group of unpublished works by Frederick Faust, these two Western stories both deal with cowardice. In “Traynor” the title character is believed to be a weak young man, having let Dr. Parker Channing steal his love, Rose Laymon, away from him. When the stage Traynor is driving into Little Snake is robbed and Traynor’s best friend and stage guard, Sam Whitney, is killed by the robber, Traynor chases the thief and recovers his dropped Stetson, which was sold to Dr. Channing less than a month earlier. The medico takes off after Traynor confronts him, and despite a physical weakness overwhelming him, Traynor finds himself chasing the only man who can save him. In “Luck and a Horse,” Tommy Grant works day and night on the farm of the tyrant and master manipulator Sylvester Train, who has not paid him for nineteen months. The man runs roughshod over Tommy as well as his niece, Margie Train. When Tommy balks at using his horse, Brownie, in the plow, Train sends him to Fruit Dale with two wagons of grain and a shopping list. In town, he learns that Lefty Lew Hilton is looking to gun down the jailbird, Bert Ellis. Events take a strange turn when Tommy finds himself in the back room of a saloon, playing cards with Ellis. When Ellis is shot in the middle of the game, a hundred posse men give chase to Tommy, who is believed to be the killer of Ellis."

Max Brand (Author), Tim Getman (Narrator)

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The Stone That Shines [Dramatized Adaptation]

"Dick Rutherford, known simply as the Colonel, had set out into the West to find his fortune, accompanied only by his young companion, Christy Deever. But it looked like the frontier would provide more danger than money...until the Colonel and Christy met Stone-That-Shines, a Mandan warrior who possessed a medicine stone that gave him his name. As soon as the Colonel got a close look at the medicine stone, he knew immediately what made it shine—a rich vein of quartz gold. The source of that stone would be the answer to his quest. But first the Colonel and Christy had to escape the Mandan chief and his determined warriors. They were after something too—the Colonel's hide."

Max Brand (Author), A Full Cast, Bobby Aselford, Bradley Smith, Catherine Aselford, Colleen Delany, Danny Gavigan, David Coyne, Drew Kopas, James Lewis, Ken Jackson, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Terence Aselford, Thomas Keegan, Tim Getman (Narrator)

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The One Way Trail [Dramatized Adaptation]

"When Harry French left home he was just another kid looking to make his way. But when he comes back four years later, things are different. He's different. Or at least the town thinks so. Now nobody looks him in the eye. He isn't just Harry anymore, he's the Shifter, a gunfighter who brings trouble with him wherever he goes. And as hard as Harry tries, he finds that a reputation is a lot harder to put down than a gun."

Max Brand (Author), A Full Cast, Bradley Smith, Casie Platt, Catherine Aselford, Christopher Graybill, Colleen Delany, Danny Gavigan, David Coyne, Dylan Lynch, Eric Messner, Gary Telles, James Keegan, James Konicek, Joe Brack, Ken Jackson, Kimberly Gilbert, Michael Glenn, Michael John Casey, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Patrick Bussink, Ren Kasey, Richard Rohan, Ted Stoddard, Terence Aselford, Thomas Keegan, Tim Andrés Pabon, Tim Carlin, Yasmin Tuazon (Narrator)

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Gunless Gunman [Dramatized Adaptation]

Max Brand (Author), A Full Cast, Alyssa Wilmoth, Bradley Smith, Casie Platt, Catherine Aselford, Christopher Graybill, Colleen Delany, Danny Gavigan, David Coyne, David Harris, Drew Kopas, Dylan Lynch, Elizabeth Jernigan, Eric Messner, Evan Casey, Gary Telles, James Konicek, Johann Dettweiler, Ken Jackson, Kimberly Gilbert, Michael Glenn, Michael John Casey, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Patrick Bussink, Richard Rohan, Scott McCormick, Terence Aselford, Thomas Keegan, Tim Andrés Pabon, Tim Carlin, Yasmin Tuazon (Narrator)

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Werewolf [Dramatized Adaptation]

"Werewolf by Max Brand in Western Story Magazine (12/18/26) involves just such an inward journey for Christopher Royal who is convinced he is a coward and flees a confrontation with Harry Main who is a gunfighter. There comes a time in this story — when Christopher encounters the aged Indian, the old wise man — that the terrain shimmers with the multiple affinities of meaning conjured by the unconscious, which Vergil once sought to capture within an image both awesome and sinister: numina magna deum [the great divine power of a god]."

Max Brand (Author), A Full Cast, Alexander Strain, Alyssa Wilmoth, Christopher Graybill, Colleen Delany, Danny Gavigan, David Coyne, Drew Kopas, Elizabeth Jernigan, Evan Casey, Gary Telles, Joe Brack, Ken Jackson, Kimberly Gilbert, Michael Glenn, Michael John Casey, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Richard Cutting, Richard Rohan, Scott Mccormick, Terence Aselford, Thomas Keegan, Tim Carlin, Tim Getman, Tony Nam (Narrator)

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The White Streak: A Western Duo

"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 twenty-one-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. When his father signs over the old family homestead that is in serious need of repair, Jimmy feels better. But an unexpected invitation from Parker to meet him at the Club convinces him that Parker wants him back. When he learns what Parker really has in mind, Jimmy finds himself recalling the stories he has heard about the notorious robbers the White Streak and Utah Billie, and he has to make a hard decision. In “The Masked Rider” the betrothed of Carlos Torreño, Lucia d’Arquista, is making her way to Casa Torreño in Spanish California in which no expense has been spared in making her journey a lavish one by her soon-to-be father-in-law, Francisco Torreño. But it is on the journey that Francisco decides that Lucia is a sparrowhawk and that she must be watched carefully, especially once she takes an interest in Taki, a Navajo who is working off a debt to Francisco."

Max Brand (Author), Tom Burka (Narrator)

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Magic Gun: A Western Duo

"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 cartoon of the beautiful truth that life may be,” and he 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 by celebrating his small successes as he travels deeper in the wild. Two things change the course of his adventure: he sees a town from a hill, and a stranger, desperate to file on a claim, convinces Collier to trade horses. Once he walks the stranger’s horse into the town, he soon finds himself to be mistaken for the outlaw Bill Gadsden by both worshipers of the outlaw and the man after the outlaw, Lassiter. In the title story, twenty-two-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 and they have no interest in him, other than as a poorly dressed oddball. 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. When Dan Hodge, the gunman, is killed and his personal items go up for auction, Dikkon gets his Colt, which he believes is a magic gun."

Max Brand (Author), Traber Burns (Narrator)

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