Male : Writer of westerns, detective stories and the Dr Kildare series. Died from a shell fragment in his chest whilst a War Correspondent in Italy

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Seattle, Washington

Date of Birth : 1892 Date of Death : 1944 Age : 52

Pseudonyms : Real Name = Frederick Schiller Faust. Owen Baxter. Walter C Butler. Frederick Frost

Education : University of California

1920-1925
Trailin' (1920 Putnam US)
The Night Horsemen (1920 Putnam)
The Seventh Man (1921 Putnam)
Alcatraz (1923 Putnam)
Dan Barry's Daughter (1924 Putnam)
Clung (1924 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Guide to Happiness (1924 H & S)
Gun Gentlemen (1924 H & S)
His Third Majesty (1925 H & S)

1926-1930
Fire-Brain (1926 Putnam)
The White Wolf (1926 Putnam)
Fate's Honeymoon (1926 H & S)
Luck (1926 H & S)
Black Jack (1926 H & S)
Harrigan (1926 H & S)
The Stranger at the Gate (1926 H & S)
The Blue Jay (1927 H & S)
The Garden of Eden (1927 H & S)
The Pride of Tyson (1927 H & S)
Pillar Mountain (1929 H & S)
Pleasant Jim (1929 H & S)
Mistral (1930 H & S)
The Outlaw of Buffalo Flat (1930 Dodd Mead)
Mystery Valley (1930 H & S)

1931-1935
Destry Rides Again (1931 H & S)
[Filmed in 1939]
This Happy Valley (1932 H & S)
Smiling Charlie (1932 H & S)
The Jackson Trail (1932 H & S)
Twenty Notches (1933 H & S)
Valley Vultures (1933 H & S)
The Longhord Feud (1933 H & S)
The Outlaw (1933 Dodd Mead)
Slow Joe (1933 H & S)
War Party (1934 Dodd Mead)
Timbal Gulch Trail (1934 H & S)
Red Devil of the Range (1934 Macaulay, NY) - as Owen Baxter
Crooked Horn (1934 H & S)
Brothers on the Trail (1935 H & S)
The Rancher's Revenge (1935 H & S)
Dead Man's Treasure (1935 H & S)
Frontier Feud (1935 Dodd Mead)
The Seven of Diamonds (1935 H & S)
Cross Over Nine (1935) - as Walter C Butler

1936-1940
Hunted Riders (1936 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Rustlers of Beacon Creek (1936 H & S)
Happy Jack (1936 H & S)
The Night Flower (1936) - as Walter C Butler
Secret Agent Number One (1936) - as Frederick Frost
The King Bird Rides (1936 H & S)
South of the Rio Grande (1937 H & S)
The Streak (1937 H & S)
Spy Meets Spy (1937) - as Frederick Frost
The Bamboo Whistle (1937) - as Frederick Frost
Double Trail (1937 H & S)
Six Golden Angels (1937)
Dead or Alive (1938 Dodd Mead)
Riding the Iron Trail (1938 H & S)
Singing Guns (1938 H & S)
Poker Face (1939 H & S)
Gunman's Gold (1939 H & S)
A Fairly Slick Guy (1940 H & S)
Lanky for Luck (1940 H & S)
The Dude (1940 Dodd Mead)
Cleaned Out (1940 H & S)

1941-1945
Riders of the Plains (1941 H & S)
The Border Kid (1941 H & S)
The Long Chance (1941 Dodd Mead)
Dr Kildare Takes Charge (1941 Dodd Mead)
[The Dr Kildare films, of which there were many, first appeared in 1937 in "Interns Can't Take Money"]
Vengeance Trail (1941 Dodd Mead)
Striking Eagle (1942 H & S)
The Safety Killer (1942 H & S)
Silvertip (1942 H & S)
The Man from Mustang (1943 H & S)
Silvertip's Strike (1944 H & S)
Silvertip's Roundup (1944 H & S)

1946-1950
Silvertip's Trap (1946 H & S)
Silvertip's Chase (1946 H & S)
Silvertip's Search (1946 H & S)
The Fighting Four (1948 H & S)
The Stolen Stallion (1949 H & S)
Mountain Riders (1949 H & S)
The Valley of Vanishing Men (1949 H & S)
Valley Thieves (1949 H & S)
Bandit of the Black Hills (1949 H & S)
The False Rider (1950 H & S)
The Gun-Tamer (1951 H & S)

1951-1955
Flaming Irons (1951 H & S)
Hired Hands (1951 H & S)
The Hair Trigger Kid (1951 Dodd Mead)
The Untamed (1952 H & S)
The Tenderfoot (1952 Dodd Mead) (1955 H & S)
Seven Trails (1952 H & S)
The Galloping Broncos (1953 H & S)
Single Jack (1953 H & S)
Border Guns (1954 H & S)
Tragedu Trail (1954 H & S)
Smiling Desperado (1955 H & S)

1956-1960
The Gambler (1956 H & S)
The Invisible Outlaw (1956 H & S)
Outlaw Breed (1957 H & S)
Speedy (1957 H & S)
The Big Trail (1958 H & S)
Trail Partners (1958 H & S)
Blood on the Trail (1959 H & S)
Lucky Laribee (1960 H & S)

1961-1970
The Long Chase (1961 H & S)
The White Cheyenne (1961 H & S)
Tamer of the Wild (1963 H & S)
The Garden of Eden (1963 Dodd Mead)
The Stranger (1964 Panther) - pb
Golden Lightning (1965 H & S)
Torture Trail (1965 Dodd Mead)
The Guns of Dorking Hollow (1966 H & S)
Laramee's Ranch (1966 Dodd Mead)
Ride the Wild Trail (1966 Dodd Mead)
Rippon Rides Double (1968 DM)
The Stingaree (1968 DM)
Thunder Moon (1969 DM)
Gunman's Reckoning (1970 DM)

1971-1980
Ambush at Torture Canyon (1971 DM)
Cheyenne Gold (1972 DM)
Drifter's Vengeance (1972 DM)
Luck of the Spindrift (1972 DM)
The Granduca (1973)
Storm on the Range (1979 Robert Hale)
Galloping Danger (1979 DM)
The Smoking Land (1980 Capra)

AFTER 1981
The Man from the Wilderness (1981 Robert Hale)
Gentle Desperado (1981 Capra)
Bull Hunter (1981 Robert Hale)
Sixgun Country (1981 Robert Hale)
Wild Freedom (1981 Robert Hale)
Three Moon's Challenge (1982 Dodd Mead)
Three Moon Strikes (1982 DM)
The Making of a Gunman (1983 Robert Hale)
Rogue Mustang (1985 Robert Hale)
Riders of the Silences (1986 Robert Hale)
Three on the Trail (1987 Robert Hale)
Trouble in Timberline (1987 Robert Hale)
Mountain Guns (1987 Robert Hale)
The Fastest Draw (1987 DM)
The Nighthawk Trail (1987 DM)
One Man Posse (1987 DM)
Mighty Lobo (1988 Chivers Press)
Lawless Land (1988 Robert Hale)
Lost Wolf (1989 Robert Hale)
The Crossbrand (1993 Robert Hale)

READING
Max Brand : The Man and His Work by Darrell C Richardson (1952 Fantasy Publications US)
Max Brand : The Big Westerner by Robert Easton (1970 Univ of Oklahoma Press)