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What happens when loyalty demands one thing and revenge demands another?
In The Seventh Man, Max Brand brings you into a Western world of hard riding, quick tempers and moral tests. Wide open lands promise room to move, but small towns far from the law leave people facing hard choices. Horses and guns belong to a world where decisions cannot always wait.
At its heart, this adventure sets loyalty against revenge. Bonds to friends, family or a code can pull against the urge to answer harm with harm. Brand also explores redemption: the chance to set a life right after wrongdoing or loss. The question is not only what a man does, but whether he can find a way back.
What you’ll discover
- A frontier of tests Enter a world where distance from the law makes personal choices carry greater weight.
- Loyalty under pressure Consider what binds a person to others when revenge pulls in another direction.
- The pull of revenge Explore the tension between answering harm and holding to a personal code.
- A chance to return Find hope in the question of whether a damaged life can be set right.
- Plain, fast storytelling Follow an old-fashioned Western that pairs adventure with questions about how to live.
Who will love it
Readers who love western chases, brave horses and loyal dogs will feel at home here, as will anyone drawn to stories of honor, a mother's courage and a man who belongs to the wilderness.
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- Spring breaks a lonely miner's resolve
- A quarrel over a dance goes wrong
- Whisky and pride lead to a shooting
- A hunted man meets a stranger on a black horse
- The cabin in the mountains hides a strange family
- A decoy ride ends with a mare's death
- A debt is paid with a betrayal and a vow
- Home against the wild is the real contest
- How the book is told and what to watch for
Who’s who
- Vic GreggA strong, hot-tempered miner and cowhand who loves Betty Neal, owes his life to Dan Barry, and must learn what loyalty costs.
- Dan BarryCalled Whistling Dan, a slender, gentle-voiced man with a black stallion and a wolf-dog, who lives by a simple, fierce sense of justice.
- Kate BarryDan's golden-haired wife, raised in a ranch house, who loves her husband but fights to keep their daughter from the wild.
- JoanDan and Kate's five-year-old daughter, fearless with wolves and horses, who trusts her father more than anyone.
- Pete GlassThe small, dusty sheriff on a dusty roan, a patient and deadly tracker who longs to meet a man as quick as himself.
- Betty NealThe freckled schoolteacher whom Vic hopes to marry, proud and quick to anger but loyal to him.
- Buck DanielsA dark, shrewd former outlaw who owes his new life to Dan and tries to help Kate keep her family together.
- Lee HainesA huge, tawny-bearded man once of an outlaw gang, rescued by Dan long ago, who stands by Kate in her trouble.
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Le Septième Homme
by Max Brand · 1921
A wounded miner owes his life to a gentle stranger, then sells him out for the chance to marry his sweetheart.
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The Seventh Man is a western by Max Brand, the pen name of one of the most productive writers of frontier fiction. It follows Vic Gregg, a miner and cowhand, whose quick temper turns one spring day into a long debt of honor.
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Spring breaks a lonely miner's resolve
The book opens high in the mountains, where Vic Gregg has spent a whole winter alone. He has taken on fifteen hundred dollars of assessment work for the Duncans, drilling and blasting at fourteen mining claims and nearly finishing a fifteenth. He wants to marry Betty Neal, and marriage needs money, so he works until he drops into sleep each night. His only company is the clang of his hammer on iron and the ticking of a rusty alarm clock.
Brand compares a lonely man to a river held behind a dam. The water rises, and in the end it either sweeps the dam away or goes over the top. One morning two eagles fight in the sky above Vic's lean-to, and the winner screams a long insult down the valley. The sound loosens something in him. He looks down two thousand feet at a single yellow light in a trapper's cabin, watches the dawn color the rock, and says aloud that it is spring. The echo throws the word back at him three times.
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What is The Seventh Man about?
It follows Vic Gregg, a miner who kills a man in a quarrel and is saved by Dan Barry, known as Whistling Dan. When the grey mare he is riding as a decoy is killed, he vows to repay the posse seven times over.
Who is Whistling Dan in The Seventh Man?
Dan Barry is a slender, soft-voiced man who lives in the mountains with his wife Kate and daughter Joan. He rides a black stallion called Satan, is followed by a wolf-dog called Bart, and is famous for his whistling.
What does the seventh man mean in the title?
It points to Dan's vow that the mare Grey Molly is worth seven men. Each man who falls is counted, and the story keeps asking who the last one will be.
The author
Max Brand
1892–1944 · American Western novelist
Max Brand was a pen name of Frederick Schiller Faust, an American writer born in Seattle in 1892. He wrote novels and short stories, including westerns such as The Seventh Man and Gunman’s Reckoning, both published in 1921. He died in Italy in 1944 while working as a war correspondent.
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