Ronicky Doone is a novel written by Max Brand. Bill Gregg teams up with professional gambler Ronicky Doone on a journey that brings the two Westerners to New York. Ronicky Doone has a reputation as a champion of hopeless causes. Western legend Ronicky Doone is admired by law-abiding citizens and despised by bushwhacking robbers. In order to meet his lady love for the first time, Bill Gregg is not about to let anything stand in his way. He is prepared to confront the living legend in order to do so. The two develop a bond after their first encounter and follow the girl eastward to New York City. Ronicky has to figure out the girl's secret after they find Caroline Smith and she won't go. As they try to save Caroline and make their way back to the mountain desert of the west, they run into the evil John Mark and the lovely Ruth Tolliver and are exposed to the horrors and vices of city life.
Frederick Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American writer known basically for his Western stories using the pen name of Max Brand. Faust made the well-known fictitious character of He wrote the character of young Dr. James Kildare for a series of fiction stories. Faust's other pen names were George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, George Evans, Peter Dawson, David Monitoring, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, Peter Ward, Frederick Faust, and Frederick Frost. During mid-1944, when Faust, Frank Gruber, and fellow writer Steve Fisher were working at Warner Brothers, they frequently had discussions during evenings, alongside a Colonel Nee, who was a specialized advisor sent from Washington, D.C. One day, accused of whiskey, Faust discussed getting assigned to a company of foot troopers so he could encounter the war and later compose a war novel. Colonel Nee said he could fix it for himself and half a month after the fact he did, getting Faust a task for Harper's Magazine as a war reporter in Italy. While going with American warriors battling in Italy in 1944, Faust was injured mortally by shrapnel.
