Ronicky Doone

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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 (1926) 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)

  1. A Horse In Need
  2. Friendly Enemies
  3. At Stillwater
  4. His Victim's Trouble
  5. Macklin's Library
  6. The New York Trail
  7. The First Clue
  8. Two Apparitions
  9. A Bold Venture
  10. Mistaken Identity
  11. A Cross-Examination
  12. The Strange Bargain
  13. Doone Wins
  14. Her Little Joke
  15. The Girl Thief
  16. Disarminig Suspicion
  17. Old Scars
  18. The Spider's Web
  19. Stacked Cards
  20. Trapped!
  21. The Miracle
  22. Mark Makes A Move
  23. Caroline Takes Command
  24. The Ultimate Sacrifice
  25. Unhappy Freedom
  26. Hills And Sea
  27. The Last Stand
  28. Hope Deferred
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