Free Range Lanning A Western Story (Paperback)

1921. George Owen Baxter is one of the names used by Frederick Schiller Faust. Max Brand is the best-known pen name of Faust, creator of Dr. Kildare, Destry, and many other fictional characters popular with readers and viewers worldwide. He also wrote under the names Frank Austin, Walter C. Butler, George Challis, Evan Evans, John Frederick, Frederick Frost, David Manning, and Peter Henry Morland. His works covered nearly every field: crime, fantasy, historical romance, espionage, westerns, science-fiction, adventure, animal stories, love, war, big business, big medicine, and fashionable society. Free Range Lanning begins: Beside the rear window of the blacksmith shop Jasper Lanning held his withered arms folded against his chest. With the dispassionate eye and the aching heart of an artist he said to himself that his life work was a failure. That life work was the young fellow who swung the sledge at the forge, and truly it was a strange product for this seventy-year-old veteran with his slant Oriental eyes and his narrow beard of white. Andrew Lanning was not even his son, but it came about in this way that Andrew became the life work of Jasper.