The Untamed - Max Brand

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, Dan's adversary is Jim Silent, the leader of a crew of train robbers. When Silent kidnaps Kate (Cumberland's 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 boy's 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'.