Trailin'!
Max Brand
Jan 1920 · IndyPublish.com
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All through the exhibition the two sat unmoved; yet on the whole it was the bestWild West show that ever stirred sawdust in Madison Square Garden and it broughtthunders of applause from the crowded house. Even if the performance could notstir these two, at least the throng of spectators should have drawn them, for allNew York was there, from the richest to the poorest; neither the combinedaudiences of a seven-day race, a prize-fight, or a community singing festival wouldmake such a cosmopolitan assembly.All Manhattan came to look at the men who had lived and fought and conqueredunder the limitless skies of the Far West, free men, wild men-one of their shrillwhoops banished distance and brought the mountain desert into the very heart ofthe unromantic East. Nevertheless from all these thrills these two men remainedimmune.
All through the exhibition the two sat unmoved; yet on the whole it was the bestWild West show that ever stirred sawdust in Madison Square Garden and it broughtthunders of applause from the crowded house. Even if the performance could notstir these two, at least the throng of spectators should ha...
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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