Max Brand is a pseudonym of Frderick Faust (1892-1944), who published more than three hundred western novels. Introducing "The Untamed" is William Bloodworth Jr., professor of English at East Carolina University. Another early novel, "Trailin' "(Bison Books 1994), as well as The "Collected Stories of Max Brand," edited by Robert and Jane Easton, are available from the University of Nebraska Press.
