Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah & All Our Friends

Max Evans was the author of over thirty works of fiction and nonfiction. He was the recipient of the Spur, Wrangler, and Owen Wister awards, and he was the subject of the biography Ol' Max Evans: The First Thousand Years and a documentary film of the same title. Evans made his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for over fifty years. Robert Nott has been a reporter for the Santa Fe New Mexican for more than fifteen years. Among his previous books are The Films of Randolph Scott and He Ran All the Way: The Life of John Garfield.

Director Sam Peckinpah, the mad genius of film, managed to drive away almost everyone who worked with him or drank with him. Max Evans stayed loyal to the end. His graphic reflections in Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends make you wonder how he did it." —Richard Gaughran, James Madison University "A remarkable memoir by a true westerner, Max Evans, on the wild, turbulent life and career of the great Sam Peckinpah, a man who created so much, and destroyed so much, in his all-too-brief life." —John L. Simons, coauthor of Peckinpah's Tragic Westerns: A Critical Study