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Evans, Max Allen was born on August 29, 1924 in Ropes, Texas, United States. Son of W. B. and Hazel (Swafford) Evans.
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Broken Bones and Broken Hearts
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Here are two classic short novels by an award-winning, hard-writing master of the Western novel. The Hi Lo Country tells the story of two cowboys who rode the Hi Lo country as best friends, until they fell in love with the same woman. And Bobby Jack Smith You Dirty Coward is the story of a cowboy ready to take over a town armed only with books on Napoleon.
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One-Eyed sky
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Sam Peckinpah, Master of Violence: Being the Account of the Making of a Movie and Other Sundry Things
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Long John Dunn of Taos: From Texas Outlaw to New Mexico Hero Rev Sub edition by Evans, Max (1992) Hardcover
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Long John Dunn of Taos: From Texas Outlaw to New Mexico Hero
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"An exciting yarn and good reading". (Los Angeles Times) "Long John Dunn ... is one of those true to life men of the old West about which movies were made -- or ought to be!" (Wisconsin Bookwatch) Long John Dunn of Taos, New Mexico cattleman, jailbird, gambler, stagecoach driver, miner, saloon-keeper, and entrepreneur, told Max Evans the story of his long and adventurous life and his recollections of the last days of the pioneer era. Evans, best known for his novel The Rounders, has received numerous awards, including the Golden Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. Evans is a long-time resident of Albuquerque.
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Long John Dunn of Taos
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The One Eyed Sky - Primary Source Edition
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Spinning Sun, Grinning Moon (Red Crane Literature Series)
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Book by Evans, Max
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Max Evans' Hi Lo Country: Under the One-Eyed Sky
( The northeastern quadrant of New Mexico, with a slice o...)
The northeastern quadrant of New Mexico, with a slice of Colorado, Oklahoma, and West Texas, is the area Max Evans has dubbed the Hi Lo Country. He bought a ranch there when he was seventeen, he painted it as a young artist, and has used the land as the setting for most of his well-known writings. His novels The Rounders and The Hi Lo Country were made into Hollywood movies. Jan Haley is also from the heart of Hi Lo Country, where she has documented in her photography the vanishing homesteads and ranches in this region anchored by four mountains: Eagle Tail, Sierra Grande, Capulin, and Rabbit Ears. Her pictures of the spectacular landscapes of northeast New Mexico will enthrall not just fans of Max Evans but anyone who wants to see the True West that still exists within a day's drive of the big cities that are now the population centers of the country. The Max Evans text written specifically for this book is in his unmatched storytelling style and full of entertaining anecdotes. His writing is rich in heartfelt emotion and, coupled with Haley's photos, is a tribute to a neglected part of the world we can now treasure forever. "Jan Haley's photographs show a place where the people were so tough the Depression felt right at home, and it never left. The rusting 1950 purple Hudson still sits on blocks where the owner left it, imagining shiny renovation someday. . . . Winds so strong, it seemed the outhouse blew over, and is still horizontal. . . . And many an old ranchhouse . . . leans abandoned in the wind."--Richard Benke, Associated Press reporter and author of The Ghost Ocean (UNM Press)
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The Rounders
( The bawdy and moving story of two contemporary bronco b...)
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 Glenn Ford. Acclaimed for its realistic depiction of modern cowboying and for its humor, it is also a very serious work, described by the author as a tragicomedy. "It is a book to read if you are in need of a good laugh or if you are tired of reading cowboy novels where there are no cows and where the cowhands never stop waiting around the local saloon for a final showdown with the visiting Indians."--San Francisco Chronicle "One of the funniest cowpoke yarns to come off the presses in many a fall roundup."--Denver Post
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Max Evans' Hi Lo Country: Under the One-Eyed Sky by Evans, Max (2004) Hardcover
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Hi- Lo- Country (German Edition)
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Bluefeather Fellini
( Born in New Mexico at the end of World War I, Bluefeath...)
Born in New Mexico at the end of World War I, Bluefeather Fellini is half-Pueblo Indian and half-Italian. Throughout his life, Bluefeather enjoys roaming and seeking his fortunes elsewhere, but he is always drawn back to Taos, the home of his Indian mother. During times of danger, he is visited by Dancing Bear, his spirit guide, who interjects ageless humor into situations when needed. And his Aunt Tulip Everhaven usually has a brew made from sagebrush that helps Bluefeather put his troubles into perspective. "Max Evans is a sage voice of the West."--The New York Times The narrative tone changes dramatically to describe Bluefeather's participation in D-Day and the subsequent push into Germany in harrowing, unsentimental detail; these nearly surreal passages are war writing at its best. . . . a highly engaging epic."--Publishers Weekly "A strong sense of place permeates the text; the high-desert world of northern New Mexico provides realistic and spiritual elements that add mythic quality to a leisurely-told tale with a large cast of colorful characters. This is a work of peculiar power."--Library Journal
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Hi-Lo country
(Padova, 1999; br., pp. 270.(Le betulle).)
Padova, 1999; br., pp. 270.(Le betulle).
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The Great Wedding (Zia Books Series)
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Three short novels: The great wedding, The one-eyed sky, My pardner
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Blufeather Fellini/Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm
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This Chosen Place: Finding Shangri-La on the 4ur
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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 story of an empire builder whose real empire was one God built". -- Dale Walker, Rocky
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Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm
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Falling in love with an enigmatic millionaire's daughter, Bluefeather Fellini, an Italian-Native American, begins a spiritual quest that takes him into the mysterious caverns of his long-dead ancestors. Reprint. K. PW.
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Bluefeather Fellini: Two Acclaimed Novels of the American Southwest (Bluefeather Fellini and Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm)
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Born in New Mexico at the end of World War I, Bluefeather Fellini is half-Pueblo Indian and half-Italian. Throughout his life, Bluefeather enjoys roaming and seeking his fortunes elsewhere, but he is always drawn back to Taos, the home of his Indian mother. During times of danger, he is visited by Dancing Bear, his spirit guide, who interjects ageless humor into situations when needed. And his Aunt Tulip Everhaven usually has a brew made from sagebrush that helps Bluefeather put his troubles into perspective. "Max Evans is a sage voice of the West."--The New York Times The narrative tone changes dramatically to describe Bluefeather's participation in D-Day and the subsequent push into Germany in harrowing, unsentimental detail; these nearly surreal passages are war writing at its best. . . . a highly engaging epic."--Publishers Weekly "A strong sense of place permeates the text; the high-desert world of northern New Mexico provides realistic and spiritual elements that add mythic quality to a leisurely-told tale with a large cast of colorful characters. This is a work of peculiar power."--Library Journal
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Super bull and other true escapades
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Book by Evans, Max
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The Hi Lo Country Paperback - May 15, 2014
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Rounders 3: The Acclaimed Trilogy of Classic Cowboy Novels
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This trilogy of cowboy novels by bestselling western author Max Evans contains The Rounders, The Great Wedding and The Orange County Cowboys. In The Rounders, two cowboys named Dusty Jones and Wrangler Lewis set out to break a wild roan named Old Fooler; if he doesn't break them first. The Great Wedding tells how Dusty figures their troubles will be over if he can marry off Wrangler to a rich lady from Santa Fe. The Orange County Cowboys is the story of how modern times finally catch up with Dusty and Wrangler when their boss sells the JL ranch to an investor.
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The Hi Lo Country by Max Evans (2014) Paperback
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Evans, Max: SPINNING SUN GRINNING MOON: Novellas (1st Edition)
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Rounders 3 - Authentic Novel of the American West
(Hardcover, copyright 1997. First published in 1960, the b...)
Hardcover, copyright 1997. First published in 1960, the best selling novel The Rounders was immediately recognized as a rollicking classic of western fiction. The story of Dusty Jones and Wranger Lewis, two "stove-up" cowboys whose luck is consistently bad, inspired a popular movie starring Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda, and a t.v. series. In this edition, all three of Evan's classic rounders tales are here, The Rounders, The Great Wedding, and The Orange County Cowboys, accompanied by the wonderfully authentic drawings of cowboy artist Glen Lee. After reading this classic collection of western stories and characters you'll never look at cowboys or the West in the same way again.
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Super bull and other true escapades by Evans, Max (1986) Hardcover
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My Pardner
(Accompanied by a deceitful cowboy who teaches him some in...)
Accompanied by a deceitful cowboy who teaches him some ingenious methods of survival, a twelve-year-old Texas boy drives his father's horses to Oklahoma in the 1930's.
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Southwest wind
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The Hi Lo Country
(A new edition of the classic novel of post-WWII cowboys r...)
A new edition of the classic novel of post-WWII cowboys ranching in the Ho Lo country of north eastern New Mexico. The death of Evan's best friend, Big Boy Hittson by his brother who filled him with five .38 slugs, inspired him to write The Hi Lo Country. The story centers on a tumultuous and tangled love triangle, unrequited love, and adultery. It laments the coming of the pick up truck replacing horses and big ranching squeezing out independent outfits. Full of drama as well as the humor and wild stories of characters living in the Hi Lo country. The book was made into a major motion picture in 1998 starring Woody Harrelson, Penolpe Cruz in her first major American film, and Billy Crudup.
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Rounders 3
(First published in 1960, the best selling novel The Round...)
First published in 1960, the best selling novel The Rounders was immediately recognized as a rollicking classic of western fiction. The story of Dusty Jones and Wrangler Lewis, the "stove-up" cowboys whose luck is consistently bad, inspired a popular movie starring Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda, and a television series. In this edition of Rounders 3, all three of Evans’s classic Rounders tales are here, The Rounders, The Great Wedding, and The Orange County Cowboys, accompanied by the wonderfully authentic drawings of cowboy artist Grem Lee. In The Rounders, Dusty meets a roan named Old Fooler, a horse whose hooves should be cloven, he’s so mean-spirited. When Dusty’s not trying to send Old Fooler back to the devil, he is nursing the wounds, both physical and emotional, inflicted by the evil horse. In The Great Wedding, Dusty arranges to marry off his buddy, Wrangler, to a rich woman in Santa Fe, so they can all live happily ever after. High society in the Hi Lo Country will never be the same after a brush with these two rowdy range riders. And in the final, Spur Award-winning Novella The Orange County Cowboys, modern times catch up with Wrangler and Dusty when their boss, Jim Ed Love, plans to sell his ranch, their only home, to a Japanese investor. After reading this classic collection of western stories and characters you’ll never look at cowboys or the West in the same way again. Illustrated with Grem Lee’s wonderfully detailed sketches of cowboys, this volume should be on the bookshelf of every lover of authentic works of the American West.
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- The One Eyed Sky - Primary Source Edition (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
- The One-Eyed Sky: A Narrative in Three Moods - Grim, Joyful and Absurd - of the
- Sam Peckinpah, Master of Violence: Being the Account of the Making of a Movie and Other Sundry Things by Max Evans (1972-01-01)
- Long John Dunn of Taos: From Texas Outlaw to New Mexico Hero by Max Evans (1992-09-03)
- Rounders 3 (First published in 1960, the best selling novel The Round...)
- Bobby Jack Smith, you dirty coward!: A novel (A bawdy, wildly funny story of a half-smart cowboy who ri...)
- Bluefeather Fellini (Bluefeather Fellini is part Italian and part Taos Indian-...)
- The One-Eyed Sky: A Narrative in Three Moods - Grim, Joyful and Absurd - of the Texas Plains and Its People
- Long John Dunn of Taos: From Texas Outlaw to New Mexico Hero (Book by Evans, Max)
- Bluefeather Fellini Adn Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm
- Shadow of Thunder (Book by Evans, Max)
Max Allen Evans
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Education
Student in public schools, New Mexico, Texas.
Career
President, Solar Metals, Inc., Taos, New Mexico, 1954-1959; vice president, Evans Minerals, Inc., Taos, 1955-1957; director, Taos Minerals, Inc. vice president, Taos Rodeo Association, 1955-1957; founding director, New Mexico State Film Commission, Santa Fe, 1969-1973; honorary lifetime member board chancellors, University Texas System, since 1969; founding director New Mexico Farm and Ranching Institute, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, since 1986; board directors Cowboy Culture Institute, Texas Technology U., since 1989. Member Governor's 1st New Mexico Film Commission, 1967.
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The Rounders
( The bawdy and moving story of two contemporary bronco b...)
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Bluefeather Fellini
(Bluefeather Fellini is part Italian and part Taos Indian-...)
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This Chosen Place: Finding Shangri-La on the 4ur
(An unique book that blends a biography of well-known Texa...)
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Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm
(Falling in love with an enigmatic millionaire's daughter,...)
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My Pardner
(Accompanied by a deceitful cowboy who teaches him some in...)
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Bobby Jack Smith, you dirty coward!: A novel
(A bawdy, wildly funny story of a half-smart cowboy who ri...)
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Max Evans' Hi Lo Country: Under the One-Eyed Sky
( The northeastern quadrant of New Mexico, with a slice o...)
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Rounders 3: The Acclaimed Trilogy of Classic Cowboy Novels
(This trilogy of cowboy novels by bestselling western auth...)
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Rounders 3
(First published in 1960, the best selling novel The Round...)
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Rounders 3
(First published in 1960, the best selling novel The Round...)
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The Hi Lo Country
(A new edition of the classic novel of post-WWII cowboys r...)
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Bluefeather Fellini
( Born in New Mexico at the end of World War I, Bluefeath...)
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Bluefeather Fellini: Two Acclaimed Novels of the American Southwest (Bluefeather Fellini and Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm)
( Born in New Mexico at the end of World War I, Bluefeath...)
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Broken Bones and Broken Hearts
(Here are two classic short novels by an award-winning, ha...)
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Evans, Max: SPINNING SUN GRINNING MOON: Novellas (1st Edition)
(For a specific description of this book, please see each ...)
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The One Eyed Sky - Primary Source Edition
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
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One-Eyed sky
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
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The One Eyed Sky - Primary Source Edition
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
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Long John Dunn of Taos: From Texas Outlaw to New Mexico Hero
("An exciting yarn and good reading". (Los Angeles Times) ...)
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Rounders 3 - Authentic Novel of the American West
(Hardcover, copyright 1997. First published in 1960, the b...)
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Spinning Sun, Grinning Moon (Red Crane Literature Series)
(Book by Evans, Max)
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The Great Wedding (Zia Books Series)
(Book by Evans, Max)
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Super bull and other true escapades
(Book by Evans, Max)
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Long John Dunn of Taos: From Texas Outlaw to New Mexico Hero
(Book by Evans, Max)
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Shadow of Thunder
(Book by Evans, Max)
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Hi-Lo country
(Padova, 1999; br., pp. 270.(Le betulle).)
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Blufeather Fellini/Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm
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Super bull and other true escapades by Evans, Max (1986) Hardcover
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- The One-Eyed Sky: A Narrative in Three Moods - Grim, Joyful and Absurd - of the
- Sam Peckinpah, Master of Violence: Being the Account of the Making of a Movie and Other Sundry Things
- Long John Dunn of Taos: From Texas Outlaw to New Mexico Hero Rev Sub edition by Evans, Max (1992) Hardcover
- Long John Dunn of Taos
- Sam Peckinpah, Master of Violence: Being the Account of the Making of a Movie and Other Sundry Things by Max Evans (1972-01-01)
- Long John Dunn of Taos: From Texas Outlaw to New Mexico Hero by Max Evans (1992-09-03)
- Max Evans' Hi Lo Country: Under the One-Eyed Sky by Evans, Max (2004) Hardcover
- Hi- Lo- Country (German Edition)
- The One-Eyed Sky: A Narrative in Three Moods - Grim, Joyful and Absurd - of the Texas Plains and Its People
- Three short novels: The great wedding, The one-eyed sky, My pardner
- The Hi Lo Country Paperback - May 15, 2014
- The Hi Lo Country by Max Evans (2014) Paperback
- Bluefeather Fellini Adn Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm
- Southwest wind
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The Rounders
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With United States Army, 1942-1945, European Theatre of Operations.
Interests
Connections
Married Helene Caterlin, June 10, 1942 (divorced). 1 child, Sharon; married Patsy Jo James, August 4, 1949. Children: Charlotte and Sheryl (twins.).
Education
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1954 - 1959
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1955 - 1957
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1955 - 1957
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1969
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1969 - 1973
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Recipient Golden Spur award Western Writers of America, Inc., 1983, 87, National Cowboy Hall Of Fame Wrangler award, 1984, Wrangler award for Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm, 1995, Levi Strauss Golden Saddleman award for Lifetime Achievement, 1990, State of New Mexico's Annual Rounders' award Governor New Mexico and Secretary Agriculture, Lifetime Achievement Culture award National Cowboy Symposium, 1993, New Mexico Governor's award for excellence in arts, 1993, Wrangler Best Novel award Western Heritage, 1994. Excellence and Achievement in the Arts award Governor New Mexico, 1993. Max Evans Day named in his honor, Hobbs, New Mexico, 1968.Recipient Golden Spur award Western Writers of America, Inc., 1983, 87, National Cowboy Hall Of Fame Wrangler award, 1984, Wrangler award for Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm, 1995, Levi Strauss Golden Saddleman award for Lifetime Achievement, 1990, State of New Mexico's Annual Rounders' award Governor New Mexico and Secretary Agriculture, Lifetime Achievement Culture award National Cowboy Symposium, 1993, New Mexico Governor's award for excellence in arts, 1993, Wrangler Best Novel award Western Heritage, 1994. Excellence and Achievement in the Arts award Governor New Mexico, 1993. Max Evans Day named in his honor, Hobbs, New Mexico, 1968.