Magazine historian Robert Sampson argued the Don Everhard stories influenced later writers of Hardboiled crime fiction such as Carroll John Daly.
[6] He followed the Everhard stories with a series of South Seas tales about Hurricane Williams, an adventurer who shuns "civilized" society.
James Oliver Curwood declared that Days of '49 was "the best book he had read for ten years", while Edwin Bjorkman compared Young's work to that of Walter Scott.
[8][9] Huroc the Avenger is a historical adventure set in the seventeenth century, and revolves around the titular hero's quest for revenge against a ruthless Venetian trading family.
[2] Young's humorous Westerns about "Red" Clark became his most commercially successful series; these tales first appeared in Adventure and Short Stories before being collected in book form.