Torturous Trek

Review "Brand practices his art to something like perfection."-- "New York Times, praise for the author""The name Max Brand is synonymous with Western novels."-- "Booklist, praise for the author""The prolific Shakespeare of the western range."-- "Kirkus Reviews, praise for the author" Product Description On a cold, gusty night in Circle City, Alaska, Sammy Day walks into Nagle's Bar. He is only twenty-two, but he has been on his own for ten years. He has worked cattle from Montana to Chihuahua, but a little "accident" at a poker table in Montana sent him on a forced march to Alaska to avoid a posse. He is down to his last fifty cents. About the Author Max Brand(R) (1892-1944) is the best-known pen name of widely acclaimed author Frederick Faust, creator of Destry, Dr. Kildare, and other beloved fictional characters. Orphaned at an early age, Faust studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He became one of the most prolific writers of our time but abandoned writing at age fifty-one to become a war correspondent in World War II, where he was killed while serving in Italy.