Max Evans

Max Evans, novelist, artist, scriptwriter, former cowboy, miner, and dealer in antiquities, resides in Albuquerque. He received the Owen Wister Award for lifelong contributions to the field of western literature from the Western Writers of America.

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The Rounders

University of New Mexico Press

This is the 50th anniversary edition of the western that made Max Evans famous.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Madam Millie

Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan

University of New Mexico Press

Madam Millie contains sordid details and frank language that will make many readers blush. It is unvarnished language, as recorded directly from Millie by Max Evans over a period of almost twenty years. It presents a complete picture of the business of prostitution as it was practiced in the west from the late 1920s to the mid 1970s, told by the most successful madam in the business.

  • Copyright year: 2003
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Bluefeather Fellini

University of New Mexico Press

This classic of American fiction tells the story of the travels of Bluefeather Fellini, a half-Pueblo Indian and half-Italian who always returns to his mother's home in Taos, New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Faraway Blue

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2005
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For the Love of a Horse

University of New Mexico Press

Favorite horse stories from one of the West's favorite writers.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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War and Music

A Medley of Love

University of New Mexico Press

An unlikely group of characters attempt to carve out a normal existence at a French country estate in the midst of World War II.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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The Hi Lo Country, 60th Anniversary Edition

By Max Evans; Foreword by Johnny D. Boggs
University of New Mexico Press

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.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends

University of New Mexico Press

In this enthralling memoir we follow Evans and Peckinpah through conversations in bars, family gatherings, binges on drugs and alcohol, struggles with film producers and executives, and Peckinpah’s abusive behavior—sometimes directed at Evans himself.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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The King of Taos

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

Max Evans, the beloved New Mexican writer of such enduring classics of Western fiction as The Rounders and The Hi-Lo Country, returns to form with The King of Taos.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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