"The Night Horseman" by Max Brand is a story set in the early 1900's about a smart but physically weak doctor, Randall Byrne, as he experiences life on the American frontier. When he starts caring for a patient named old Joe Cumberland, he has to deal with difficult situations that show the importance of love, loss, and how people relate to each other through Byrne's interactions with Kate Cumberland, and a puzzling man called Whistling Dan. As the story begins, Doctor Byrne, known for his intelligence but lack of hands-on frontier experience, arrives in Elkhead. He is immediately drawn into a critical situation when Kate Cumberland urgently calls for medical assistance for her seriously ill father. Ignoring his first worries, Byrne follows Kate into the wild, where he is pulled into the mysterious events surrounding old Joe's failing health and his strange link to the legendary and unsettling man, Whistling Dan. Creating a dramatic story filled with psychological suspense that is set among the rough beauty and hard truths of frontier existence.
The Night Horseman
By Max Brand
In the unforgiving landscape of the early twentieth-century frontier, a doctor must confront a patient's mysterious illness and secrets linked to a haunting figure from local legend.
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About the AuthorFrederick Schiller Faust was an American writer known primarily for his Western stories using the pseudonym Max Brand. As Max Brand, he also created the popular fictional character of young medical intern Dr. James Kildare for a series of pulp fiction stories. His Kildare character was subsequently featured over several decades in other media, including a series of American theatrical movies by Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), a radio series, two television series, and comics. Faust's other pseudonyms include George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, Peter Dawson, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Henry Morland, George Challis, and Frederick Frost. He also wrote under his real name. As George Challis, Faust wrote the "Tizzo the Firebrand" series for Argosy magazine. The Tizzo saga was a series of historical swashbuckler stories, featuring the titular warrior, set in Renaissance Italy.
Frederick Schiller Faust was an American writer known primarily for his Western stories using the pseudonym Max Brand. As Max Brand, he also created the popular fictional character of young medical intern Dr. James Kildare for a series of pulp fiction stories. His Kildare character was subsequently featured over several decades in other media, including a series of American theatrical movies by Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), a radio series, two television series, and comics. Faust's other pseudonyms include George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, Peter Dawson, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Henry Morland, George Challis, and Frederick Frost. He also wrote under his real name. As George Challis, Faust wrote the "Tizzo the Firebrand" series for Argosy magazine. The Tizzo saga was a series of historical swashbuckler stories, featuring the titular warrior, set in Renaissance Italy.
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