Good fluff. Spike and Dan are cute, and a lot of the secondary characters are amusingly (not deeply, but amusingly) drawn. I see what fuzzi means about a weak ending, but it's how books like this work - all the coincidences come together and make for Happy Ever After for man and dog. If I actually think about it, I think they've got some serious trouble waiting - they and Hart have made a bad enemy without particularly weakening him. But that's outside this book, they won for now and all's right with the world. Similarly, Dan's blinding only leads, through various vales of woe, to a good ending - and of course (all the way back at the beginning) the man-shy dog finds his True Master to start the rest of the story going. Not a place to look for logic, or even real dog behavior, but it's great fluff. Perfect when I didn't want to think too much. I'd read it before, but long long ago - each scene was vaguely familiar as it came up, but I didn't know where the story was going overall (aside from the predictable path such a book always takes). ( )

Dan is thrown from a speeding train, and manages to limp far enough to find a source of water before he collapses. Once he wakes he realizes he has been joined on his travels by a golden brown dog, lying close by. The two make their way down the tracks to a logging camp, and a future.

Interesting and entertaining story set in the late 1930's, by the author of the "Silver Chief" books. I subtracted a 1/2 star for a weak ending, but it's still worth reading. ( )

When I saw this long-forgotten book on the web just now I felt a clutch of sorrow in my belly. Clearly one of the dog books that most moved me when I was a child. ( )