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Fighting Four
The Beeler Western Series (also known as Sagebrush Large Print Westerns) offers exciting Western novels by popular authors like Max Brand and Zane Grey in rugged hardcover editions. Save 30% with a Beeler Western Standing Order See page 15 for details.
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First published January 1, 1947
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Max Brand
1,826 books136 followersFrederick Schiller Faust (see also Frederick Faust), aka Frank Austin, George Owen Baxter, Walter C. Butler, George Challis, Evin Evan, Evan Evans, Frederick Faust, John Frederick, Frederick Frost, David Manning, Peter Henry Morland, Lee Bolt, Peter Dawson, Martin Dexter, Dennis Lawson, M.B., Hugh Owen, Nicholas Silver
Max Brand, one of America's most popular and prolific novelists and author of such enduring works as Destry Rides Again and the Doctor Kildare stories, died on the Italian front in 1944.
Max Brand, one of America's most popular and prolific novelists and author of such enduring works as Destry Rides Again and the Doctor Kildare stories, died on the Italian front in 1944.
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November 7, 2017
Nothing special about the story or ending. I liked the writing style though.
May 6, 2016
read SOMETIME in 2001
April 8, 2017
Max Brand one of my favorite authors. He is a great storyteller and also he writes extremely well. He has a great fondness for people and animals, and this book, The Fighting Four, represents Brand well.
There are four well constructed characters in this book: four outlaws, Silver, Wayland (the protagonist), Frosty Silver's huge timber wolf, and Parade, Silver's horse. While the story is about a robbery of half a million dollars, the pursuit, retrieval of the money, and the conquest of the four robbers/murderers, the theme is the development of Wayland, the bank teller into a man of courage and honor.
The last sentence of the book is one of the best concluding sentences I have read in my life, and defines the book. In referring to Wayland, he says that Wayland is "...the best sort of man in the world, because he's always better than the best he knows about himself."
There are four well constructed characters in this book: four outlaws, Silver, Wayland (the protagonist), Frosty Silver's huge timber wolf, and Parade, Silver's horse. While the story is about a robbery of half a million dollars, the pursuit, retrieval of the money, and the conquest of the four robbers/murderers, the theme is the development of Wayland, the bank teller into a man of courage and honor.
The last sentence of the book is one of the best concluding sentences I have read in my life, and defines the book. In referring to Wayland, he says that Wayland is "...the best sort of man in the world, because he's always better than the best he knows about himself."
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