The Untamed

The Untamed is a novel written in 1919 by Max Brand. The story revolves around only person who is a young man by the name of Dan Barry one of the three untamed beings. The other two are a black horse named Satan and a wolf-dog named Black Bart. In the early chapters Dans adversary is Jim Silent the leader of a crew of train robbers. When Silent kidnaps Kate (Cumberlands daughter) Texas Calder (a marshal) who has been hunting Silent joins forces with Dan. Then Silent the head of a group of railway robbers and his team murder two guards while robbing a train. They ultimately run with Texas and Dan who were close on their trail inside a motel but Calder is shot by Silent and dies in the boys arms. The other chapters of the novel are a complicated series of hostage-taking jailbreaks and chases and counter-chases in which Dan gets shot and nearly loses his life from blood loss and fever. Will Dane and Kate reunite? If yes then how will their story get a happy ending? To read the story readers should go through The untamed.