Max Evans

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1972
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Books in Order: 17 titles

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  • Escape to Butterfly Ave

    There's eight million stories in the naked city but billions more around the world from the COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of a man stripped down to nothing to realize what matters most. Escape to Butterfly Ave is a coming-of-age dramedy that highlig...

  • The King of Taos

    Winner of the 2021 Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Western NovelMax Evans' wit and humanity sparkle in the guise of a humorous cast of characters set in the underworld of Taos, New Mexico, in the 1950s.The underground world of con men, winos, ...

  • Where's Pops?

    "Where's Pops?" is a short story collection about Dads--the good, the bad, and the rest in-between. Regardless of where these men land on the spectrum of fatherhood, they each face challenges that every parent can relate to--relationship tests, finan...

  • The Rounders

    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 ...

  • War and Music

    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 o...

  • Hot Biscuits

    For more than twenty years Max Evans has been trying to assemble a book of stories by working cowboys--men who were ranch hands with at least five years of paid experience and women who had either been raised on ranches or joined their husbands on...

  • Spinning Sun, Grinning Moon

    Max Evans embodies the essence of the great Southwest. Evans writes about places he's been, seen, felt, and encountered with profound understanding. Raw experience is reflected in this collection of seven novellas, whose expression ranges from magic ...

  • Faraway Blue

    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 Hi-Lo Country

    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, ...



  • Hi Lo to Hollywood

    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 ge...

  • This Chosen Place

    An unique book that blends a biography of well-known Texas rancher and builder Charles Leavell, with the history of the ranch in southwestern Colorado, the 4UR, that he has built into a world-class resort.

    "This is a rare and wondrous book, the sto...

  • Broken Bones and Broken Hearts

    In "The Hi Lo Country," two best friends work side-by-side as rugged cowpunchers until they fall in love with the same woman, while in "Bobby Jack Smith You Dirty Coward!" a power-hungry cowboy studies the Napoleonic art of taking over the world. Ori...

  • Bluefeather Fellini

    He was so handsome he intentionally scarred his face in the hope that people would stop staring. Though his skills as a cardsharp could have made him rich, he embraced the hard and perilous life of a prospector. Yet when he found a hidden river of go...

  • Rounders 3

    Three classics in cowboy literature--"The Rounders," "The Great Wedding," and "The Orange County Cowboys"--star Dusty Jones and Wrangler Lewis, two bronco busters with a thirst for loot, liquor, and ladies...

  • Great Wedding

  • Mountain of Gold

  • My Pardner

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Max Evans has published 17 books.

Max Evans does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Escape to Butterfly Ave, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Max Evans, My Pardner, was published in April 1972.

No. Max Evans does not write books in series.
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