Red Devil of the Range
New York: Macaulay, (1934).
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Hardcover. First edition. Slight wear at the bottom of the boards, still about fine in an attractive, very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with a creased tear along the edge of the spine and front panel and a couple of small chips. Everard Winton tames the impossible horse, the Red Pacer, and faces a gang of desperadoes.
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Max Brand
birth name: Frederick Schiller Faust
born: 5/29/1892
died: 5/12/1944
Biography
Seattle-born author who worked as a cowhand in California, attended Berkeley, joined then deserted the Canadian Army, and finally settled down to writing full-time. He was incredibly prolific and wrote numerous books under his birth name (Frederick Faust) and a variety of pseudonyms. Today he is best known for his work published as Max Brand, including the classic Western Destry Rides Again and his popular series Dr. Kildare. Although middle-aged when WWII broke out and suffering from chronic heart disease (he had had a heart attack in 1921), he became a front line war correspondent and was fatally wounded by shrapnel in Italy in 1944.more