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Title: The Untamed

Author: Max Brand

Release Date: January 31, 2004 [EBook #10886]

Language: English

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THE UNTAMED

BY MAX BRAND

1919

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. Pan of the Desert

II. The Panther

III. Silent Shoots

IV. Something Yellow

V. Four in the Air

VI. Laughter

VII. The Mute Messenger

VIII. Red Writing

IX. The Phantom Rider

X. The Strength of Women

XI. Silent Bluffs

XII. Partners

XIII. The Lone Riders Entertain

XIV. Delilah

XV. The Cross Roads

XVI. The Three of us

XVII. The Panther's Paw

XVIII. Cain

XIX. Real Men

XX. One Trail Ends

XXI. One Way Out

XXII. The Woman's Way

XXIII. Hell Starts

XXIV. The Rescue

XXV. The Long Ride

XXVI. Black Bart Turns Nurse

XXVII. Nobody Laughs

XXVIII. Whistling Dan, Desperado

XXIX. "Werewolf"

XXX. "The Manhandling"

XXXI. "Laugh, Damn it!"

XXXII. Those who See in the Dark

XXXIII. The Song of the Untamed

XXXIV. The Coward

XXXV. Close in!

XXXVI. Fear

XXXVII. Death

XXXVIII. The Wild Geese

THE UNTAMED

CHAPTER I

PAN OF THE DESERT

Even to a high-flying bird this was a country to be passed over
quickly. It was burned and brown, littered with fragments of rock,
whether vast or small, as if the refuse were tossed here after the
making of the world. A passing shower drenched the bald knobs of a
range of granite hills and the slant morning sun set the wet rocks
aflame with light. In a short time the hills lost their halo and
resumed their brown. The moisture evaporated. The sun rose higher and
looked sternly across the desert as if he searched for any remaining
life which still struggled for existence under his burning course.

And he found life. Hardy cattle moved singly or in small groups and
browsed on the withered bunch grass. Summer scorched t