Sour Creek Valley, Max Brand
Sour Creek Valley, Max Brand
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Sour Creek Valley
A Western Story

Author: Max Brand

Narrator: Traber Burns

Unabridged: 6 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2018

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

After hitting a rich vein of gold on the back of Champion Mountain, Blondy Kitchin heads to the big city to have a good time, but there his luck runs out and he ends up spending two years in prison. The prison’s chaplain helps educate him, tries to smooth out his rough edges, and convinces him that the range is the place for Kitchin to make use of his brute strength and free spirit.

About Max Brand

Max Brand® (1892–1944) is the best-known pen name of widely acclaimed author Frederick Faust, creator of Destry, Dr. Kildare, and other beloved fictional characters. Orphaned at an early age, he studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He became one of the most prolific writers of our time but abandoned writing at age fifty-one to become a war correspondent in World War II, where he was killed while serving in Italy.

About Traber Burns

Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eleanor

Some westerns age well, some, not so much. This one is trying to be positive and progressive, in that the racist/sexist beliefs of some characters are all proved to be foolish and wrong by the end, but it’s very much ‘of its time’ and it’s uncomfortable reading at times. And speaking of uncomfortabl......more

Quotes

“Brand practices his art to something like perfection.” New York Times

“Max Brand is the Shakespeare of the Western range.” Kirkus Reviews, praise for the author

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