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Title: The Wolf Strain
Author: Max Brand
Narrator: Jeff Harding
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-01-14
Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
This Western trio shows Max Brands compassion for, and tremendous ability to create, memorable animal characters, such as the wolf Gray Shadow.
Members Reviews:
I've missed this!
I spent many hours watching Westerns with my uncles as a youngster. My preteens were spent reading all the books in our school's library that featured horses. Then I discovered Max Brand in a used bookstore...the clouds parted and sunlight appeared! That small classic Signet covered book with delicate yellowing pages is still one of my prized possessions.
Reading a Max Brand book is like watching an older TV western. There is excitement, adventure, cliffhangers, bromance (a cowboy would die for his best friend), cattle, as well as detested sheep, horses, a lovely young lady, someone in distress, posses, range wars, hangings, cattle drives, gold, greed, revenge, family, sisterns, chewing tobacco, card playing, rolling smokes, doing the right thing. There's lush grass, barren desert, breathtaking mountains, raging rivers. Sodbusters, foremen, barkeeps, sheriffs, ranchers, whiskey peddlers, bankers, very few doctors, drovers, bounty hunters.
Stagecoaches, trains, covered wagons, buckboards, and carriages. There weren't any native Americans, but there were many Indian tribes, and a proud people were called savages and warriors. A western town of any worth always had a bank, a general store, a saloon, a restaurant, sheriff's office/jail, a hotel, a stable, a barbershop where baths could be taken. The larger towns had newspaper offices, lawyers, a place easily converted into a courtroom, sometimes it's own gallows. Hitching posts and water troughs abounded. Along with six shooters and Winchesters. No wonder violence prevailed.
I was plunged back into this world when I read two of the three stories in this Kindle edition of THE WOLF STRAIN (I also own the hardcover edition). The third story involves the serialized character Bull Hunter whose other stories I plan to read in chronological order. The first two stories in this anthology are great introductions to this author if you've never read him or a great pair of stories if you have. It's nice that with the Go To button on the Kindle Fire you can easily view the table of contents.
If you expect all the swearing and sex you find in modern westerns you will be very disappointed there isn't any of either in a Max Brand book. He makes up for it in other ways. You are so caught up in the master story telling you don't even have time to miss it.
In the first story "Bared Fangs" an innocent very angry man returns home after being unjustly imprisoned for ten long brutal years that aged and changed him. Turning him into a gaunt savage and snarling wolf, baring his fangs at everyone--Whether friend or foe. When the murders start, he is the main suspect....but is he once again innocent or actually guilty this time?
True friendship is the underlying theme in "Gallows Gamble" the second story. This story is quintessential Max Brand a teller of tall tales that are great adventures like Indiana Jones and today's action movies. The happenings are so fantastic that you have to suspend belief to enjoy them.
