Riding the Hi-Lo Country with Ol’ Max

In 1,018 years, Max Evans has done just about everything and somehow lived through it—cowboy, calf roper, artist, prospector, mystic, actor, producer, smuggler, brawler, D-Day soldier—but he has only one hero. “That potbellied son of a bitch” Honore de Balzac. Go figure. Yet Ol’ Max (Uncle Sam says Evans is almost 81, but he swears he’s 1,018) “worships” that 19th-century French writer because Balzac changed his life. “How would you figure that I’d go up, 11 years old, to