Brand, Max 1892-1944

Overview

Works:	1,662 works in 9,886 publications in 6 languages and 208,148 library holdings
Genres:	Western fiction Fiction Western films Film adaptations Drama Comedy films Historical fiction Domestic fiction Action and adventure fiction Adventure stories
Roles:	Author, Contributor, Bibliographic antecedent, Editor, Other, Author of screenplay
Classifications:	PS3511.A87, 813.52

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Max Brand

Max Brand : the big westerner by Robert Easton( Book )
Max Brand by William A Bloodworth( Book )
Western and hard-boiled detective fiction in America : from high noon to midnight by Cynthia S Hamilton( Book )
Back roads to far places by Lawrence Ferlinghetti( Book )
Max Brand, western giant : the life and times of Frederick Schiller Faust( Book )

Western American literature : a bibliography of interpretive books and articles by Richard W Etulain( Book )
The Max Brand companion by Jon Tuska( Book )
Destry rides again by George E Marshall( Visual )
Half-light and overtones by H. W Faust( Book )
Destry rides again( Visual )
Max Brand, the man & his work : critical appreciations and bibliography by Darrell C Richardson( Book )
"Verfolgung und Wiederentdeckung" : Protokolle der Gesprächskonzerte des Vereins "Musica Reanimata" über die Komponisten Max Brand, Alfred Goodman, Józef Koffler und die Komponistin Ursula Mamlok( Book )
The fabulous Faust fan-zine( )
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The nifty fifties( Visual )
The history of a hero : a study of Max Brand's Destry rides again by David L Fox( )
Männer ohne Furcht : Roman by Max Brand( Book )
Singing guns( )
The mountain desert : to Frederick Faust, "Max Brand" (1892-1944) by Moore Moran( Book )
Brandt & Brandt correspondence as literary agents for Frederick Faust by Brandt & Brandt( )

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Most widely held works by Max Brand

The seventh man by Max Brand( )

82 editions published between 1921 and 2021 in 3 languages and held by 2,343 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Whistlin' Dan Barry lives a peaceful life with his wife and daughter. He is a fearless, silent, mysterious man cursed with a deadly temper when roused to anger

Destry rides again by Max Brand( Book )

75 editions published between 1930 and 2022 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,417 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

After serving a six year prison term because of the betrayal of a friend, Harrison Destry decides to hunt down the twelve jurors who framed and then convicted him

The Double Rider : a Western Story by Max Brand( Book )

31 editions published between 1930 and 2019 in 3 languages and held by 1,358 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hired to impersonate a man who wants to know why he has been summoned to the family home of a person he was accused of killing years earlier, Ned Rippon befriends a family member and struggles to discover whether his targets or his employer are trustworthy

Riders of the silences by Max Brand( Book )

38 editions published between 1920 and 2015 in English and held by 1,333 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A bloodthirsty band of marauders sweep over the range seeking vengeance for the death of one of its members

The untamed by Max Brand( Book )

90 editions published between 1919 and 2020 in 3 languages and held by 1,290 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Whistling Dan finds himself locked in a struggle with the outlaw Jim Silent and with Kate Cumberland, the woman who seeks to tame him with her love

Gunman's goal : a western story by Max Brand( Book )

61 editions published between 1932 and 2021 in 3 languages and held by 1,275 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

James Giraldi is a thief. One that steals from other thieves. He is begged to help find Louise Asprey's father and refuse the ten thousand dollars to locate the man, until a cold-blooded mercenary named Dick Renney takes the case

The lightning warrior : a western story by Max Brand( Book )

31 editions published between 1996 and 2017 in English and held by 1,274 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"A red-haired blue-eyed giant called Cobalt" sets out to capture "the unblemished pelt of the Lightning Warrior as a betrothal gift" for Sylvia Baird, but instead he returns with the wolf itself, tamed.--Cover

Bull Hunter by Max Brand( Book )

61 editions published between 1921 and 2019 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,210 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A man who could rip a tree trunk from the ground with his bare hands or tame the wildest stallion with his kind manner---that was Bull Hunter. One day Bull Hunter and Pete Reeve crossed paths, and townsfolk from Cheyanne to San Antonio braced for a battle that would end up with either a couple of gut-shot gunslingers---or a pair of living legends

Sixteen in Nome : a north-western story by Max Brand( Book )

29 editions published between 1930 and 2017 in English and held by 1,170 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An earlier version of this novel appeared in installments in Western story magazine

The rangeland avenger by Max Brand( Book )

44 editions published between 1922 and 2019 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,148 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

While Riley Sinclair relentlessly pursues the men who abandoned his injured younger brother, leaving him to die in the desert, one of the pursued commits suicide and another saves Sinclair from a lynching party

The stone that shines : a western story by Max Brand( Book )

20 editions published between 1997 and 2001 in English and held by 1,108 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

When Dick Rutherford loses all his money in a horse race, he asks his fiancee to wait for him while he heads into the Far West to seek his fortune

Mountain guns by Max Brand( Book )

9 editions published between 1958 and 1987 in English and held by 1,030 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A stranger from the East came to the trading post deep in the wilderness looking for the man he must kill. What he found was trouble

The night horseman by Max Brand( Book )

91 editions published between 1920 and 2020 in 4 languages and held by 1,013 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Doc Byrne left the big city and headed west, but once he encountered Jerry Strann, Dan Barry, and Joe Cumberland, there would be plenty of work for him before the Night Horseman rode away

The stingaree by Max Brand( Book )

33 editions published between 1930 and 2021 in English and Undetermined and held by 992 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

When Alabama Joe drifted into Fort Anxious, his one friend there was the boy, Jimmy Green. Most people thought Joe was just an easygoing tramp who would do anything to avoid a fight. Stanley Parker, however, suspected that the stranger was more dangerous than he pretended to be. Ever since Parker had won fame and fortune by gunning down the notorious Bob Dillman, he had been expecting the outlaw's partner, the deadly Stingaree, to show up. And Parker knew he would have to kill Stingaree--if he could!

In the hills of Monterey : a western story by Max Brand( Book )

30 editions published between 1924 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 982 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Francisco Valdez arrives in Spanish California to marry Ortiza Tarabal, but she falls in love with his slave, El Rojo

Trouble in Timberline by Max Brand( Book )

20 editions published between 1961 and 2009 in English and held by 978 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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 fired him, paying Barney off with a mustang so wild that even professional horsebreakers couldn't ride it

The survival of Juan Oro by Max Brand( Book )

27 editions published between 1925 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 965 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Juan Oro, a young American brought up by Indians, is captured in battle by a Spanish lord. He is sent to apprentice with a famous gunslinger with instructions to learn the trade, then kill him. But during training a bond forms between pupil and teacher. A 1925 magazine serial, now published in book form

Dan Barry's daughter by Max Brand( Book )

49 editions published between 1923 and 2022 in 3 languages and held by 964 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

After hightailing it to Mexico to escape false accusations of murdering his mining partners, Harry Gloster falls in love with a woman there. But when the roundup posse finds him, he must choose to stay and risk hanging or run and forget the girl

Beyond the outposts by Max Brand( Book )

32 editions published between 1997 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 945 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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 by Cheyenne Indians, Lew and his new friend, Chuck Morns, spring an ambush on the marauders and are pursued until they find shelter in a Sioux Village. It is here that Lew comes to know the great Sioux chieftains, Standing Bear and Three Buck Elk, saves the life and becomes a blood brother to Sitting Wolf. Once he does find his father, their confrontation is harrowing

The stolen stallion by Max Brand( Book )

40 editions published between 1933 and 2022 in English and Undetermined and held by 936 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Many men had set out to capture a magnificent stallion named Parade but none had yet triumphed through the hardships to gain the ultimate prize. Silvertip was a dangerous cowboy who could rip out the heart of a mountain lion with his bare hands and when he hunted Parade, he took only a rope and raw courage. But trailing him, guns at their sides, were two killers who wanted the cowboy as badly as they wanted the horse!"--

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