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The Untamed

Max Brand

Book Overview: 

Whistlin' Dan Berry is one of the most interesting characters in Western fiction. With uncanny abilities he controls a wild stallion, appropriately named Satan, and a ferocious wolf dog, Black Bart. Easy going, Berry proves absolutely unforgiving when physically assaulted by a feared, vicious outlaw, Jim Silent. Seemingly without any emotions, Whistlin' Dan is relentless in his vengeful search for Silent and his outlaw gang. The is the first book in the "Whistlin Dan" series.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Not another man in the room stirred from his place. Some sat with their cards raised in the very act of playing. Some had stopped midway a laugh. One man had been tying a bootlace. His body did not rise. Only his eyes rolled up to watch.

Dan darted under the outstretched arms of Silent, fairly heaved him up from the floor and drove him backwards. The big man half stumbled and half fell, knocking aside two chairs. He rushed back with a shout, but at sight of the white face with the thin trickle of blood falling from the lips, and at the sound of that inhuman laughter, he paused again.

Once more Dan was upon him, his hands darting out with motions too fast for the eye to follow. Jim Silent stepped back a half pace, shifted his weight, and drove his fist straight at that white face. How it happened not a man in the room could tell, but the hand did not strike home. Dan had swerved aside as lightly as a wind-blown feather and his fi. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Awesome book Max Brand is one of the best of the western writers this is a must read for all western lovers

The Untamed is the first of the Whistling Dan Barry books written by Max Brand. Brand is my favorite of the big western authors, so I give that as an immediate caveat. Trigger warning to all those who might be offended by the antiquated language, that to the modern ear may sound misogynistic or raci

This is my first time reading a Max Brand western. Obviously I've heard about his tremendous contribution to the genre. But my preference in western reading is usually stories with action packed, graphically violent gunfights and hard edge characters and Max Brand westerns did not seem to fit those

Brand is a skilled writer and he uses words well but this is just too melodramatic and the character a bit absurd, despite being an interesting concept.

I enjoyed this book. I wasn't sure what to think of the main character, Whistlin' Dan. I was never sure what he was going to do but whatever he did always seemed true to his character. Whistlin' Dan was a very likable character but in a way I felt sorry for him and I always worried about him. I star

Stunning writing.

Regardless of what might be considered melodrama, I felt The Untamed (the first of the Whistling Dan Barry novels) was a book that kept me interested and engaged throughout. Unlike a typical Zane Grey novel, Max Brand doesn't delve so much into the setting as he does into the thoughts and lives of t

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