Max Brand's Best Western Stories ( Volume III ) [Hardcover]

Max Brand (Author), William F. Nolan (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Dodd Mead; Volume III edition (June 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0396089488
• ISBN-13: 978-0396089483
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,091,704 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

With 85 books to his credit, plus hundreds of scripts, articles and short stories embracing a dozen genres, William F. Nolan is an official Living Legend (voted that honor by the International Horror Guild).
As a noted pulp historian, he is a recognized authority on Black Mask, Dashiell Hammett, and "Max Brand" (Frederick Faust). Nolan has edited six collections of Faust tales, has written Max Brand: Western Giant, and is the author of the forthcoming biography King of the Pulps: The Man Who Was Max Brand. Nolan's historical anthology, The Black Mask Boys, is the key work on the legendary magazine - and he's written three books on Dashiell Hammett, plus several pieces on the early pulp fiction of his longtime pal, Ray Bradbury.
Nolan states: "I began my fiction career [13 novels and 185 stories] too late for the pulps, but I did have letters printed in Planet Stories and Famous Fantastic Mysteries - and I grew up reading Argosy and Weird Tales."
Recently voted a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to Dark Fantasy, Nolan is currently at work on ten new books. His most famous creations, Logan's Run, is now out in comic-book format from Bluewater Productions - and a new mega-budget film version is due from Warner Bros. in 2012.
Nolan lives in Vancouver, Washington, with an apartment full of books, pulp magazines, and stuffed animals.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Max Brand's Best Western Stories Volume III, Edited with an Introduction by William F. Nolan, October 17, 2005

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Description from the book dust jacket:

Here are seven newly collected classics of the Old West - novelettes and short stories - that make this book a welcome companion to Max Brand's Best Western Stories, Volumes I and II. Set in the still untamed wilderness, on ranches, and in bordertowns, these tales contain the furious action and the wild adventures that have attracted a wide audience. The book opens with "Reata's Peril Trek", a rousing short novel about a drifter who fought with a rawhide lariat instead of a six-gun, an indomitable stranger facing the dangers of man and nature. "Crazy Rhythm" shows how deadly poker games can be, and reveals what happened to one survivor. "Dust Storm" places a small-time rancher between two feuding cattle barons during a cattle stampede. "A Lucky Dog" is an off-trail wilderness adventure about a notorious thief, his pursuer, and a gutsy white bull terrier trapped by a blizzard. "The Third Bullet" is a novelette in which a desperate young rancher finds a fighting way to reclaim a life almost wrecked by his own bad luck. "The Sun Stood Still" describes a killing job well done, while "Half a Partner" is a dramatic tale of two fighting men.

Each work in this strong and varied collection has a short introduction by William F. Nolan, a well-known authority on the great western writer. This is a book in which Max Brand rides again! ISBN 0-396-08948-8