Adventures and Western. Book 1

Adventures and Western. Book 1:  1. The Untamed; 2. The Night Horseman; 3. The Seventh Man; 4. Dan Barry's Daughter.


1. The Untamed - Published: 1919

Max Brand burst on the scene with this striking novel less than two decades after Wister’s The Virginian and just as Zane Grey was topping the bestseller lists. In those three writers one can trace the evolution of western storytelling from history into myth. Wister’s Wyoming and his cowboy characters were drawn from life, while Grey romanticized the desert Southwest and the heroes and villains he put there. Brand stripped away realism and romance in The Untamed and left pure myth—with even a touch of the supernatural.

The “untamed” in the novel is a trio of beings, only one of them human, a young man Dan Barry. The other two are a black horse named Satan and a wolf-dog named Black Bart. All three of them are feral creatures, each in his way a little more than half wild. Dan was found wandering footloose in the desert by a cattleman, Joseph Cumberland, and a special friendship has grown between Dan and Cumberland’s daughter, Kate.


2. The Night Horseman - Published: 1920

When a youth with superhuman strength and the ability to talk to animals enters Dan Barry’s life, you can be assured things get interesting! East meets the Wild West in this violent, powerful, and funny masterpiece by Max Brand.

Whistling Dan's friend Joe Cumberland is dying. Although his daughter Kate gets the best doctor available to save him she realizes that the only one who can bring him back is Whistling Dan, the untamed hero that she loved and lost. Can she find him? Will Dan come, and if he comes, will he stay? 

This exciting novel from Max Brand is sure to thrill western fans.


3. The Seventh Man - Published: 1921

The Seventh Man by Max Brand, tells part of the story of the larger-than-life western character, Dan Barry, known as “Whistling Dan,” and his alter-ego companions, Black Bart, the wolf-dog, and Satan, the indomitable black stallion. It’s also the story of Kate Cumberland and the incredible five-year-old daughter of Kate and Dan, Joan. We first see Dan as a gentle, caring man with a deep sense of fairness. But then, after six years of a peaceful life in their mountain cabin Dan, more feral than human, sets out to revenge an injustice by killing seven men. Ultimately, it is his devotion to his daughter and Kate’s love for the child that brings about the climax of the tale.


4. Dan Barry's Daughter - Published: 1924

DAN BARRY’S DAUGHTER, a six part serial, is a sequel to the three foregoing stories. Whistling Dan appears only reminiscently in the narrative, but from beyond the grave he weaves a magic spell over Joan, his child.

  "Whistling Dan,” the man with the yellow eyes and untamed heart, is no more, but he left to Joan, his girl-child, a vital legacy of wanderlust. Every reader who feels the lure of the gypsy trail, will revel in this great novel of love and adventure.

Max Brand, a master craftsman of the written word, has created many vivid characters for presentation to our readers; who unanimously are his admirers. He particularly knows his Westerners of to-day, and yesterday, and long ago. His knowledge is photographic of mountain, and foothill, and plain, and desert.

And of all the daring men in a colorful company of gun-fighters and hard riders, “Whistling Dan” Barry has won first place in the judgment of the reading Public.

Here is a wild soul, as alien to the bonds of civilization as an eagle to the bars of a cage. His spirit demanded wide spaces; he was forever hearkening for the magical call of the wild geese to follow on and on beyond the beckoning horizon.