The Seventh Man
Max Brand
Jan 1921 · IndyPublish.com
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A man under thirty needs neighbors and to stop up the current of his life with along silence is like obstructing a river-eventually the water either sweeps away thedam or rises over it, and the stronger the dam the more destructive is that finalrush to freedom. Vic Gregg was on the danger side of thirty and he lived alone inthe mountains all that winter. He wanted to marry Betty Neal, but marriage meansmoney, therefore Vic contracted fifteen hundred dollars' worth of mining for theDuncans, and instead of taking a partner he went after that stake single handed. Heis a very rare man who can turn out that amount of labor in a single season, butGregg furnished that exception which establishes the rule: he did the assessmentwork on fourteen claims and almost finished the fifteenth, yet he paid the price.Week after week his set of drills was wife and child to him, and for conversation hehad only the clangor of the four-pound single-jack on the drill heads, with thecrashing of the "shots" now and then as periods to the chatter of iron on iron. Hekept at it, and in the end he almost finished the allotted work, but for all of it hepaid in full.
A man under thirty needs neighbors and to stop up the current of his life with along silence is like obstructing a river-eventually the water either sweeps away thedam or rises over it, and the stronger the dam the more destructive is that finalrush to freedom. Vic Gregg was on the danger side of...
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January 19, 2016
Good rainy day western.
About the author
Max Brand is the best-known pen name of Frederick Faust, who was born in Seattle, Washington in 1882, and orphaned early. Faust grew up in the rural San Joaquin Valley of California. At the University of California, Berkeley, he became a student rebel and a one-man literary movement, contributing to campus publications. He was denied his degree because of his unconventional conduct. He then traveled, ending up in New York City where he received simultaneous recognition as a serious poet and successful popular-prose writer. Later, he traveled further, making his home in New York, then in Florence, Italy, and finally Los Angeles. He much preferred Italy, where he lived from 1926 to 1938, and where much of his writing was done. Faust, who wrote under more than a dozen pseudonyms, was a prolific writer, not only of westerns, but also of hundreds of other novels and books, including the popular Dr. Kildare series. Faust's first novel The Untamed (1918) was a success and introduced a semimythical character, Whistlin' Dan Barry, who travels the West following the wild geese, accompanied by a black wolf. His characters, who often have a mythic quality, are memorable, and his books are always entertaining. Faust was also a screenwriter for several Hollywood studios, including MGM, Warner Brothers, and Columbia. Once the United States entered the Second World War, Faust abandoned his lucrative writing career and his work as a screenwriter to serve as a war correspondent with the infantry in Italy, despite his fifty-one years and a bad heart. Faust died in 1944, killed during a night attack on a hilltop village held by the German army. Even after his death, new books based on magazine serials, unpublished manuscripts, or restored versions continue to appear so that he has averaged a new book every four months for seventy-five years.
Max Brand is the best-known pen name of Frederick Faust, who was born in Seattle, Washington in 1882, and orphaned early. Faust grew up in the rural San Joaquin Valley of California. At the University of California, Berkeley, he became a student rebel and a one-man literary movement, contributing...
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