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Max Evans
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“Among those raised to the saddle, the word cowboy is always one of
such honor that it is used with great care.” — Max Evans
Western author Max Allen Evans was born 29 August 1925 in Ropes, Texas.
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P R O F I L E
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Max Evans entry at Wikipedia {empty}
Max Evans credits [1965-98] at Internet Movie Database
Major Works
browse Max Evans Bibliography at Amazon
Max Evans at Fantastic Fiction U.K.
"Southwest Wind" [1958]
"Long John Dunn of Taos: From Texas Outlaw To New Mexico Hero" [1959]
"The Rounders" Trilogy
The story of feckless Dusty Jones and Wrangler Lewis, begun in Max Evans's first novel "The Rounders" [1960],
and continued in "The Great Wedding" [1983] and "The Orange County Cowboys" [1987 novella].
 | "The Rounders" [1960 novel] Two stove-up cowboys set out to break a wild roan named Old Fooler – part horse, part devil – if he doesn't break them first! Listed in Top Ten of 100 Best Books In New Mexico [Jan 2011] Univ NM Press 50th Anniv Edition 9x6 pb [6/2010] for $13.22 
Univ NM Press 8x5¼ pb [10/83] out of print/used Gregg Press hardcover [7/80] out of print/used Macmillan hardcover [1960] out of print/rare |
 | "The Rounders" feature film [M.G.M. March 1965]
Two aging bronco busters out of Sedona spent the winter corraling steers; usually they blow their winter pay in one night, but this year they have a plan: to take an ornery, unbreakable roan to the Sedona Rodeo and bet their bankroll that no cowboy can ride him. Adapted & directed by Burt Kennedy; starring Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Sue Ane Langdon, Hope Holiday, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan, Kathleen Freeman, Joan Freeman, Denver Pyle, Barton MacLane, Doodles Weaver, Allegra Varron, Peter Fonda, Warren Oates & Casey Tibbs Warner Bros. Archive Collxn widescreen color DVD [1/2010] for $24.49 M.G.M./Warner color VHS [5/94] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
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"The Rounders" TV series [MGM-TV / ABC-TV 1966-67] half-hour 17-episode color TV series Starring Ron Hayes, Patrick Wayne, Chill Wills, G.D. Spradlin & Strother Martin VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia |
Univ NM Press pb [10/83] out of print/used
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"Rounders 3: The Acclaimed Trilogy of Classic Cowboy Novels" [1990]
includes "The Rounders" [1960 novel], "The Great Wedding" [1983 novel], and the Spur Award-winning "The Orange County Cowboys" [1987 novella]; with b&w pencil drawings by cowboy artist Grem Lee Random House/Domain mass pb [11/90] out of print/used Univ Press CO 9x6 hardcover [12/97] for $18.96 Doubleday 8¼x5¼ hardcover [3/90] out of print/used |
"The Mountain of Gold" [1965]
"Shadow of Thunder" [1969]
"My Pardner" [1972]
"Bobby Jack Smith, You Dirty Coward!" [1974]
"One-Eyed Sky" [1974]
"The White Shadow" [1977]
"The Hi-Lo Country" [1980 novella]
 | About ranchers and changing times near the New Mexico border after WWII; also a complicated love story: two cowboy pals are both in love with another man's wife.
Boulevard movie tie-in pb [12/98] out of print/used G.K. Hall hardcover [7/80] out of print/used |
 | feature film [Polygram Dec 1998]
Directed by Stephen Frears; script by Walon Green, from the novella by Max Evans; starring Woody Harrelson, Billy Crudup, Sam Elliott, Patricia Arquette & Penélope Cruz; won Western Heritage Bronze Wrangler 1999; filming locations included Pritchett, Colorado and Bernal, Cerrillos, Galisteo, Española, Las Vegas, San Jose & Santa Fe in New Mexico USA Films widescreen color DVD [5/2001] out of prodn/used USA Films color VHS [11/99] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Xavier's Folly and Other Stories" [1984]
"Super Bull and Other True Escapades" [1985]
"Bluefeather Fellini" [1993] 978-0-8263-4260-7
listed among the 100 Best Books In New Mexico [Jan 2011]
"Spinning Sun, Grinning Moon" [1995]
"Broken Bones and Broken Hearts" [1996]
"Hi-Lo To Hollywood: A Max Evans Reader"
[33 stories, essays & novellas 1998]
"Faraway Blue" historical novel [1999] $9.95 ( paperback ) 978-0-8263-3585-2
"Madam Millie: Bordellos From Silver City To Ketchikan" [2002]
$19.95 pb 978-0-8263-2783-3
"Now and Forever: A Novel of Love & Betrayal Reincarnate"
[2003] 978-0-8263-3318-6
"Max Evans' Hi Lo Country: Under The One-Eyed Sky" [2004]
 | Text by Max Evans, photographs by Jan Haley
Univ NM Press 10¾x8¼ pb [12/2004] for $24.95 |
"For The Love of A Horse" [2007] $24.95 ( hardcover ) 978-0-8263-4274-4
Other Works
"Sam Peckinpah, Master of Violence: Being The Account of The Making
of A Movie and Other Sundry Things" [1972] by Max Evans
Dakota Press hardcover [1972] out of print/used
see also 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Bookstore's Sam Peckinpah [1925-84] Page
 | "Albuquerque: Spirit of The New West" [2000] |
"Hot Biscuits" $19.95 ( hardcover ) 978-0-8263-2889-2
co-edited by Max Evans & Candy Moulton
"Ol' Max Evans: A Biography, The First Thousand Years" [] by Slim Randles
"American West: Twenty New Stories From The Western Writers of America" [2000]
"A Century of Great Western Stories" [2000]
Movies & Other Media
Max Evans credits [1965-98] at Internet Movie Database
http://www.bobbybridger.com/ did score for "The Wheel" movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189204/
Links
Max Evans entry at Wikipedia {empty}
Max Evans credits [1965-98] at Internet Movie Database
Max Evans Welsh Style Ale
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