# The Seventh Man Author: Brand, Max, 1892-1944 Genre: Western Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1897 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Seventh+Man+Brand&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary A man under thirty needs neighbors and to stop up the current of his life with a long silence is like obstructing a river--eventually the water either sweeps away the dam or rises over it, and the stronger the dam the more destructive is that final rush to freedom. Vic Gregg was on the danger side of thirty and he lived alone in the mountains all that winter. He wanted to marry Betty Neal, but marriage means money, therefore Vic contracted fifteen hundred dollars' worth of mining for the Duncans, and instead of taking a partner he went after that stake single handed. He is a very rare man who can turn out that amount of labor in a single season, but Gregg furnished that exception which es... ## Chapters - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/22/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/29/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/20/index.md) - [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/24/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/31/index.md) - [Chapter 40](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/40/index.md) - [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/18/index.md) - [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/33/index.md) - [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/30/index.md) - [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/25/index.md) - [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/19/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/27/index.md) - [Chapter 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/34/index.md) - [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/32/index.md) - [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/26/index.md) - [Chapter 37](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/37/index.md) - [Chapter 36](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/36/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 38](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/38/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/28/index.md) - [Chapter 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/35/index.md) - [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/21/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 39](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/39/index.md) - [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/17/index.md) - [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/23/index.md) - [Chapter 41](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/41/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seventh-man-1897/chapters/5/index.md)