MAX EVANS, Best-Selling New Mexico Author “For me, the Code of the West is simple. You never let a friend down....ever. And you don't go after your enemies if they leave you alone. You can live a long time on those things.”  --  Max Evans “By the time I was seventeen, life was really whippin' up, and the sonofabitch never stopped. It's been a dead run for eighty-eight damn years, and my ears laid back all the time.”  -- Max Evans “Max Evans is a Southwestern treasure. His talent as a story-teller has brought the American West to life for countless readers and has reached even more people around the world on the motion pictures screen.” -- Paul Hutton, University of New Mexico April 14 – This week's guest on REPORT FROM SANTA FE is Max Evans, one of New Mexico's most beloved writers. His writing career spans more than 60 years, over 25 books, and includes novels “Bluefeather Fellini” and “War and Music,” short stories “For the Love of a Horse” and the soon to be released “Animal Stories, A Lifetime Collection,” movies “The Rounders” and “Hi Lo Country,” and nonfiction “Madame Millie.” His biography “Ol' Max Evans, The First Thousand Years” was written by Slim Randles and recounts Max's careers as a rancher, a miner, trapper, prospector, movie producer, and artist, while all the time - a cowboy. A gifted raconteur, Max talks about the changing nature of the West, the animals he has loved, and recounts life changing stories from his amazing life of adventure. He is one of a kind, and well represents a vanishing breed of hero in the West.