Storm on the Range

by Max Brand, Frederick Schiller Faust

A midnight robbery, the impending loss of his little patch of land, and the murder of a foreclosure-threatening money lender precede the transformation of poverty-stricken sheepherder Tom Fernald into feared killer and wealthy rancher

383 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1931

About the author

Frederick 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.

Reviews

[David Colwell · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'll have to say I don't know what to make of this book. Reminded me a lot of an old 1930s western. You know how some of those are, with slightly anachronistic settings and language. This book happened to have been written, at least in some form, in 1931, and it reflects that period. But for the most part it reads like a normal western. There's not really any real likeable characters in it, least of all the "hero" of the piece. I'd say there's quite a bit of padding in places. There's also some clearly unbelievable stuff. For instance, by not stating otherwise, it implies that one man brought in a 6000 (or was it 4000) herd of cattle all by himself. The beginning and the ending are pretty good, while the middle is pretty slow. I really had to force myself to keep going, and then only because I was curious as to where it was all going to go. I wouldn't read this again, although it might be at the top of books that I wouldn't read again.

[Mike · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was boring and I didn't care about any of the characters.There were plenty of times I nearly gave up on it so after a while I just started speed reading just to get through it.