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Max Evans, Hillsboro Historical Society
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Reclusive American actor Randolph Scott, known for his subtle,
dignified performances in almost 60 westerns, has been called the
""most genuine Westerner."" His career began in 1928 with the first
of several bit parts; his first starring role was 1932's ""Heritage
of the Desert"". He fought in World War I, studying horsemanship,
shooting, and bayoneting, and acted in a variety of films in every
genre from musical to swashbuckler. His final film was ""Ride the
High Country"" (1962).Chronologically arranged from his birth in
1898 to his death in 1987, this book covers every film in which
Randolph Scott acted. Each section begins with a biographical
chapter and then lists Scott's films from that period: each film's
entry has filmographic information, a synopsis, and detailed
commentary, discussing such topics as the financial aspects,
production details, acting, other participants, anecdotes, and
critical responses. Quotes from interviews with figures in the
industry and published reviews bolster the entries. A
bibliographical essay completes the work, which is heavily
illustrated with stills and promotional materials.
At its heart, The Hi Lo Country is the story of the friendship
between two men, their mutual love of a woman, and their allegiance
to the harsh, dry, achingly beautiful New Mexico high-desert
grassland. The story is told by Pete, a young ranch hand, whose
best friend is Big Boy Matson. Together they drink, gamble, fight,
work, and rodeo. They both fall hard for a married woman--the
attractive, bored, and dangerous Mona. When it was first published
in 1961, the novel was both a celebration and an elegy. It captured
something jagged and authentic in the West, and it caught the
attention of Hollywood--notably Sam Peckinpah, who spent twenty
years trying to make a movie of this multilayered and plainspoken
novel. It would take another twenty years for Martin Scorcese and
Stephen Frears to finally do it. Now in a special 60th anniversary
edition, The Hi Lo Country continues to tell a quintessential story
of the people and the land found in the American West.
From among his numerous publications, award-winning author Max
Evans has selected his personal favorites. The more than thirty
pieces include short novels, essays, short stories, introductions
to other works, and magazine articles spanning several genres and
most of his writing career. Through them all runs a common thread:
the understanding of love Evans has for the West and its people,
and his ability to convey that understanding with humor and
compassion. Included works are: Short Novels - ""Xavier's Folly"",
""One Eyed Sky"", ""The Wild One"", ""Old Bum"", and ""My
Pardner""; Essays - ""Sam Peckinpah: A Very Personal Remembrance"",
""King John"", ""Long John Dunn"", ""Dinner with Frank Waters"",
""Riding the Outside Circle in Hollywood"", ""Many Deaths, Many
Lives"", and ""Song of the West""; Short Stories - ""The Ultimate
Giver"", ""Blizzard"", ""Don't Kill My Dog"", ""The Far Cry"",
""The Wooden Cove"", ""The Third Grade Reunion"", ""Sky of Gold"",
""A Man Who Never Missed"", ""Big Shad's Bridge"", and ""The
Call""; Introductions and Forewords - ""Patricino Barela"", ""Some
Sweet Day"", ""The Hi Lo Country"", ""Final Harvest and other
Convictions and Opinions"", and ""Rounders 3""; and, Magazine
Articles - ""The Cowboy and the Professor"", ""A Horse to Brag
About"", ""Showdown at Hollywood Park"", ""The Wild Bunch"", ""The
World's Strangest Creature"", and ""Super Bull"".
Ranching families reflect a deeply rooted agricultural tradition
the day-to-day workings of which have changed little over
generations. Many of these children are accomplished farm hands by
the age of six or seven and already contributing members of the
family business. In this world, work skills define one's identity,
and 'making a hand' is the goal of every young cowboy/girl. This
book is a tribute to the newest generation of ranchers growing up
in New Mexico. Gene Peach has photographed girls and boys from
fifty ranching families representing diverse cultural backgrounds,
as they work cattle from horseback, perform routine ranch chores,
and compete in rodeos. Veteran western writer and cowboy Max Evans
writes about his own experiences growing up on a ranch and ponders
the realities threatening the continuation of the family ranch.
Making a Hand is a testament to a remarkable generation of New
Mexico residents continuing a legendary and honourable lifestyle.
Legendary western author Max Evans has spent his entire life
working with cows and horses. These rangeland animals, and other
creatures both domestic and wild, play pivotal roles in his
stories. This magnificent collection, beautifully illustrated by
cowboy artist Keith Walters, showcases twenty-six animal tales
penned by Evans during his long and celebrated career.
Both fiction and nonfiction, the stories in this collection get us
inside the heads and hearts of numerous four-legged critters--dogs,
horses, burros, goats, cattle, deer, coyotes, and more. "The Old
One," for example, shows us the world through the eyes of a prairie
dog as she watches her latest litter of pups rolling and tumbling
around the mound and thinks of all the things she will need to
teach them. And in "The One-Eyed Sky," an aging cow with a new calf
and an old coyote with a litter to feed circle each other warily,
trying to protect their young, until a rancher intervenes. Not one
to shy away from difficult subjects, Evans also delves into the
"animal nature" of human beings, as in "The Heart of the Matter,"
where two Vietnam vets and friends kill a deer and then turn their
rifles on each other.
These captivating tales display Evans's trademark mix of raucous
humor and vivid, poetic descriptions of the high plains of West
Texas and his beloved Hi-Lo Country in northeastern New Mexico. He
reminds his readers of simpler times and more honorable people even
as he evokes the merciless environment in which his characters,
both animal and human, struggle to survive.
In his eighty-plus years, Max Evans has known, owned, ridden, and
been thrown by quite a number of horses. In For the Love of a
Horse, Evans shares his favorite horse stories for all to enjoy. As
Max explains, "I wanted a wide range of adventures from another
time, with different horses, of different breeds, and a sense of
history of those special days." Max begins with his first horse,
Cricket, which he received when he was four years old. At the age
of ten, he helped with a horse-drive from far southeast New Mexico,
through west Texas, and on to the final destination in Guymon,
Oklahoma. Later, PDQ was a horse that seemed very gentle and
laid-back, until someone rode him. And then there was Molly, who
liked to fly through and around obstacles on coyote hunts. This
book is for all those who enjoy reading horse stories as much as
Max loves telling them. Saddle up! "The recognition is long
overdue. (Max Evans is) sui generis. He understands the present
West better than anyone else, what it's like to be there now living
in two worlds of the pickup truck and the bronco."--Charles
Champlin, former Denver bureau chief of Time and retired arts
editor of The Los Angeles Times, quoted in The New York Times
Ty Hale, a young corporal from Lovington, New Mexico, finds himself
alone in the middle of a grain field in Normandy after being
knocked unconscious by the explosion of a German artillery shell.
Stunned from the explosion and overwhelmed by visions of the
grandfather who raised him and the simple life of the New Mexico
prairie he has left behind, Ty attempts to rejoin his unit but
instead stumbles onto a country estate and inextricably into the
lives of its inhabitants. Philippe Gaston, a former music teacher,
his stunningly beautiful daughter Renee, and Hans Heinike, a German
deserter and an accomplished musician, are attempting to carve out
a normal existence in spite of the chaos and destruction that
surrounds them. As Philippe devotes his time to his German protege,
Ty and Renee fall in love and Ty learns of the Gaston estate's
unique legacy of survival and the most recent story of violence and
sacrifice that has preserved this pristine oasis in the midst of a
raging war. The music that permeates their solitary existence,
whether it be the buzzing and chattering of insects and birds, a
violin and human voice joined in concert, or the fire of machine
guns and the distant rumble of tanks, draws these unlikely comrades
together and reveals the common humanity that resides in us all.
The war, the music, the love, and the rhythms of nature are all
timeless and eternal.
The bawdy and moving story of two contemporary bronco busters, The
Rounders, originally published in 1960, was Max Evans's first novel
and is still his best known work, thanks largely to the success of
the 1965 movie version starring Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford.
Acclaimed for its realistic depiction of modern cowboying and for
its humor, it is also a very serious work, described by the author
as a tragicomedy.
First published in 1999, 'Faraway Blue' is based on the real-life
exploits of Sergeant Moses Williams, former slave, Civil War
veteran, and Buffalo Soldier in the Ninth Cavalry Regiment.
Included in Moses's story are four women and two men representing
the ethnic groups and economic levels found in the late 1800s
American Southwest. At the story's opening, Williams' cavalry unit
has one assignment: kill Apaches in the 'faraway blue' mountains of
southeastern New Mexico Territory, also known as the Black Range.
As a fighter in the white man's campaign to obliterate the Indians
and take over their lands, Williams finds a nemesis in Nana, an old
Warm Springs Apache warrior who is a tactical genius. Nana leads
his small band of followers to repeatedly strike area mining camps
and settlements. Both men know they must meet before the end of the
war and a maddening cat-and-mouse pursuit ensues. Williams is
sustained by his love for Sheela Jones, a mulatto whom he wants to
marry when the army will allow it. But Sheela's love for Moses
guides her to take an immense risk just as Moses and Nana ride out
to settle their score.
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