Ronicky Doone

Max Brand

Ronicky Doone
By Max Brand (1892-1944)

Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944), is best known today for his western fiction. Faust
was born in Seattle, Washington and at an early age moved with his parents to the San
Joaquin Valley in California where he worked as a ranch hand. After a failed attempt to
enlist in the Great War in 1917 and with the help of Mark Twain’s sister he met Robert
Hobart Davis, editor of All-Story Weekly and became a regular contributor writing under
his most used pseudonym “Max Brand”. He wrote in many genres during his career and
produced more than 300 western novels and stories. His most famous characters were
Destry and Dr. Kildare, both of which were produced in film. Faust was killed in Italy in
1944 as a front line war correspondent at the age of 51. He is buried in the Sicily-Rome
American Cemetery in Nettuno, Italy.

Ronicky Doone (1921) is a hero of the west, respected by the law-abiding citizen and hated
by bushwhacking bandits. Bill Gregg is a man in love, not about to be deflected from
meeting his lady love for the first time, and willing to stand up to the living legend to reach
her. This initial meeting leads to a friendship between the two and they travel east to New
York City on the trail of the girl. When they find the girl, Caroline Smith, and she refuses
to leave, Ronicky must discover the secret that holds her. They encounter the sinister John
Mark and the beautiful Ruth Tolliver and are exposed to the horrors and vices of big city
life as they attempt to rescue Caroline and find their way back to the mountain-desert of the
west. (Summary by Rowdy Delaney)

Read by Rowdy Delaney. Total Running Time: 05:40:25.

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Grabil (c. 1888). Copyright expired in US, Canada, EU and all countries with author’s life +70 yrs
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