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''.
Frederick Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American writer known basically for his Western stories using the pen name of Max Brand. Faust made the well-known fictitious character of He wrote the character of young Dr. James Kildare for a series of fiction stories. Faust's other pen names were George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, George Evans, Peter Dawson, David Monitoring, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, Peter Ward, Frederick Faust, and Frederick Frost. During mid-1944, when Faust, Frank Gruber, and fellow writer Steve Fisher were working at Warner Brothers, they frequently had discussions during evenings, alongside a Colonel Nee, who was a specialized advisor sent from Washington, D.C. One day, accused of whiskey, Faust discussed getting assigned to a company of foot troopers so he could encounter the war and later compose a war novel. Colonel Nee said he could fix it for himself and half a month after the fact he did, getting Faust a task for Harper's Magazine as a war reporter in Italy. While going with American warriors battling in Italy in 1944, Faust was injured mortally by shrapnel.
