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.
About the AuthorMax Evans is the author of over thirty works of fiction and nonfiction. He is the recipient of the Spur, Wrangler, and Owen Wister awards, and he is the subject of the biography
Ol' Max Evans: The First Thousand Years and a documentary film of the same title. Evans has made his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for over fifty years.
Robert Nott is the author of
The Films of Randolph Scott;
Last of the Cowboy Heroes: The Westerns of Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy; and
The Films of Budd Boetticher. He is also the coauthor, with Max Evans, of
Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends (UNM Press). He has been a reporter for the
Santa Fe New Mexican for the last twenty-five years.