James Oliver Curwood Books In Order

Kazan and Baree Books In Publication Order

  1. Kazan, the Wolf Dog (1914)
  2. Kazan: Father of Baree (1914)
  3. Baree: The Story of a Wolf-Dog (1918)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Wolf Hunters (1908)
  2. The Courage of Captain Plum (1908)
  3. The Gold Hunters (1909)
  4. The Great Lakes (1909)
  5. The Danger Trail (1910)
  6. The Honor of the Big Snows (1911)
  7. Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police (1911)
  8. Flower of the North (1912)
  9. Isobel (1913)
  10. God’s Country–And the Woman (1914)
  11. The Bear (1915)
  12. The Hunted Woman (1915)
  13. The Grizzly King (1915)
  14. The Courage of Marge O’Doone (1916)
  15. Nomads of the North (1919)
  16. The River’s End (1919)
  17. The Valley of Silent Men (1920)
  18. Back to God’s Country (1920)
  19. The Flaming Forest (1921)
  20. The Golden Snare (1921)
  21. The Country Beyond (1922)
  22. The Alaskan (1923)
  23. A Gentleman of Courage (1924)
  24. The Ancient Highway (1924)
  25. The Black Hunter (1926)
  26. The Crippled Lady of Peribonka (1926)
  27. Swift Lightning (1926)
  28. The Plains of Abraham (1928)
  29. Falkner of Inland Seas (1976)
  30. Glory of Living (1987)
  31. Son of a Hero (2004)
  32. The Match (2005)
  33. The Yellow-Back (2005)
  34. The Fiddling Man (2005)
  35. Peter God (2005)
  36. The Strength Of Men (2005)
  37. The Honor Of Her People (2005)
  38. The Mouse (2005)
  39. The Valley of Gold (2018)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Thomas Jefferson Brown (2011)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Great Wilderness Stories (1997)

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James Oliver Curwood Books Overview

Kazan: Father of Baree

Kazan lay mute and motionless, his gray nose between his forepaws, his eyes half closed. A rock could have appeared scarcely less lifeless than he; not a muscle twitched; not a hair moved; not an eyelid quivered. Yet every drop of the wild blood in his splendid body was racing in a ferment of excitement that Kazan had never before experienced; every nerve and fiber of his wonderful muscles was tense as steel wire. Quarter strain wolf, three quarters ‘husky,’ he had lived the four years of his life in the wilderness. He had felt the pangs of starvation. He knew what it meant to freeze. He had listened to the wailing winds of the long Arctic night over the barrens. He had heard the thunder of the torrent and the cataract, and had cowered under the mighty crash of the storm. His throat and sides were scarred by battle, and his eyes were red with the blister of the snows. He was called Kazan, the Wild Dog, because he was a giant among his kind and as fearless, even, as the men who drove him through the perils of a frozen world.

Baree: The Story of a Wolf-Dog

PREFACE Since the publication of my two animal books, ‘Kazan’ and ‘The Grizzly King,’ I have received so many hundreds of letters from friends of wild animal life, all of which were more or less of an enquiring natme, that I have been encouraged to incorporate in this preface of the third of my series-‘Baree, Son of Kazan’- something more of my desire and hope in writing of wild life, and something of the foundation of fact whereupon this and its companion books have been written. I have always disliked the preaching of sermons in the pages of ronlance. It is like placing a halter about an unsuspecting reader’s neck and dragging him into paths for which he may have no liking. But if fact and truth produce in the reader’s mind a message for himself, then a work has been done .. That is what I hope for in my nature books. The Anlerican people are not and never have been levers of wild life. As a nation ,ve have gone after Nature with a gun. VI PREFACE And wh

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; Baree had Dot killed, but he had conquered; His first great day-or night-had come; See page 55 Frontispiece; FACING PAGff; Nepeese, the trapper’s daughter, known to the; forest men as ‘The ‘Villow,’ who became; a big factor in the life of the pup Baree 5~; Baree stood still N epeese was not more than; twenty feet from him She sat on a rock,; full in the early morning sun 84; With an oath McTaggart snatched his revolver; from its holster The Willow was ahead of; him 124; The Willow rose slowly to her feet and looked; at Pierrot Her eyes were big and dark and; steady 156; When Baree joined the pack, a madden~d,; mouth-frothing, snarling horde, N apamoos,; th e young caribou bull, was well out in the nver ? 17!

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The Courage of Captain Plum

James Oliver Curwood, 1878 1927, was an American novelist and conservationist. He left high school without graduating but was able to pass the entrance exams to the University of Michigan where he studied journalism. In 1900, he sold his first story while working for the Detroit News Tribune. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest, a trip that provided the inspiration for his wilderness adventure stories. The success of his novels afforded him the opportunity to return to the Yukon and Alaska for several months each year that allowed him to write more than thirty such books. By 1922, his writings had made him a very wealthy man and he fulfilled a childhood fantasy by building Curwood Castle in Owosso. An advocate of environmentalism, he was appointed to the Michigan Conservation Commission in 1926. His works include: The Courage of Captain Plum 1908, The Great Lakes 1909, The Danger Trail 1910, The Flower of the North 1912, Kazan 1914, The Hunted Woman 1916, Nomad of the North 1919 and The Valley of Silent Men 1920.

The Gold Hunters

James Oliver Curwood, 1878 1927, was an American novelist and conservationist. He left high school without graduating but was able to pass the entrance exams to the University of Michigan where he studied journalism. In 1900, he sold his first story while working for the Detroit News Tribune. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest, a trip that provided the inspiration for his wilderness adventure stories. The success of his novels afforded him the opportunity to return to the Yukon and Alaska for several months each year that allowed him to write more than thirty such books. By 1922, his writings had made him a very wealthy man and he fulfilled a childhood fantasy by building Curwood Castle in Owosso. An advocate of environmentalism, he was appointed to the Michigan Conservation Commission in 1926. His works include: The Courage of Captain Plum 1908, The Great Lakes 1909, The Danger Trail 1910, The Flower of the North 1912, Kazan 1914, The Hunted Woman 1916, Nomad of the North 1919 and The Valley of Silent Men 1920.

The Danger Trail

For perhaps the first time in his life Howland felt the spirit of romance, of adventure, of sympathy for the picturesque and the unknown surging through his veins. A billion stars glowed like yellow, passionless eyes in the polar cold of the skies. Behind him, white in its sinuous twisting through the snow smothered wilderness, lay the icy Saskatchewan, with a few scattered lights visible where Prince Albert, the last outpost of civilization, came down to the river half a mile away. But it was into the North that Howland looked. From the top of the great ridge which he had climbed he gazed steadily into the white gloom which reached for a thousand miles from where he stood to the Arctic Sea. Faintly in the grim silence of the winter night there came to his ears the soft hissing sound of the aurora borealis as it played in its age old song over the dome of the earth, and as he watched the cold flashes shooting like pale arrows through the distant sky and listened to its whispering music of unending loneliness and mystery, there came on him a strange feeling that it was beckoning to him and calling to him telling him that up there very near to the end of the earth lay all that he had dreamed of and hoped for since he had grown old enough to begin the shaping of a destiny of his own.

The Honor of the Big Snows

I HAVE no idea of what I am expected to say in a preface, and am of opinion that a book is better without an appendage usually so unmeaning. I will, however, make one or two faithful declarations which may, perhaps, shield me from the reader’s wrath, should he find my work of less value than he expected. Never was a book written amid more incessant toil. Only the fragments of time could be allotted to it, and intense mental and bodily exertions have often reudered me incapable of turning even those fragments to advantage. Writing is to me the work of a slave. It is a delight, a joy, a rapture to talk out one’s thoughts in words that flash upon the mind at the instant when they are required; but it is poor drudgery to sit still and groan for thoughts and words without succeeding in obtaining then~. ‘V ell maya man’s books be called his ‘works,’ tor, if every lnind were constituted as mine, it would be work indeed to produce a quarto volume.

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CONTENTS ; ?; CHAPTER I; PAOS; TI:it: D J SPISED FRIEND 9; CUAPTER II; F AITJlFUL ‘,YOUNDS ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 43; cn APTER TII; JEStiS DESIRrD ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 99; CHAPTER IV; JE:5C’S P 1RDOlS’INO ?????? ‘ ? ?? ? ?? ???? ? ? 100; CHAPTER V; J OV AT CONYERSION 175; UHAPTER VI; CO!otI>LETE IN CnRIsT 217 CB APTER VII; I’AG8; LOVE TO J sscs ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ? 241; CHAPTER VIII; LO’V’E1S LOGlO , ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ? 272; CHAPTER L”f; JESUS IN THE HOUR OF Tnot’BLE S15; CHAPTER X; JESUS IIIDING llDISELF 364; CHAPTER XI; THE CAUSES OF ApPARENT DESERTION ?? ? ?? 378; CHAPTER XlI; COM~rUNION PRESERVED ???????? 413

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Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police

Philip Steele’s pencil drove steadily over the paper, as if the mere writing of a letter he might never mail in some way lessened the loneliness. The wind is blowing a furious gale outside. From off the lake come volleys of sleet, like shot from guns, and all the wild demons of this black night in the wilderness seem bent on tearing apart the huge end locked logs that form my cabin home. In truth, it is a terrible night to be afar from human companionship, with naught but this roaring desolation about and the air above filled with screeching terrors. Even through thick log walls I can hear the surf roaring among the rocks and beating the white driftwood like a thousand battering rams, almost at my door. It is a night to make one shiver, and in the lulls of the storm the tall pines above me whistle and wail mournfully as they straighten their twisted heads after the blasts.

Flower of the North

James Oliver Curwood, 1878 1927, was an American novelist and conservationist. He left high school without graduating but was able to pass the entrance exams to the University of Michigan where he studied journalism. In 1900, he sold his first story while working for the Detroit News Tribune. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest, a trip that provided the inspiration for his wilderness adventure stories. The success of his novels afforded him the opportunity to return to the Yukon and Alaska for several months each year that allowed him to write more than thirty such books. By 1922, his writings had made him a very wealthy man and he fulfilled a childhood fantasy by building Curwood Castle in Owosso. An advocate of environmentalism, he was appointed to the Michigan Conservation Commission in 1926. His works include: The Courage of Captain Plum 1908, The Great Lakes 1909, The Danger Trail 1910, The Flower of the North 1912, Kazan 1914, The Hunted Woman 1916, Nomad of the North 1919 and The Valley of Silent Men 1920.

God’s Country–And the Woman

Philip Weyman’s buoyancy of heart was in face of the fact that he had but recently looked upon Radisson’s unpleasant death, and that he was still in a country where the water flowed north. He laughed and he sang. His heart bubbled over with cheer. He talked to himself frankly and without embarrass ment, asked himself questions, answered them, discussed the beauties of nature and the possibilities of storm as if there were three or four of him instead of one. At the top end of the world a man becomes a multiple being if he is white. Two years along the rim of the Arctic had taught Philip the science by which a man may become acquainted with himself, and in moments like the present, when both his mental and physical spirits overflowed, he even went so far as to attempt poor Radisson’s ‘La Belle Marie’ in the French man’s heavy basso, something between a dog’s sullen growl and the low rumble of distant thunder. It made him cough. And then he laughed again, scanning the narrowing sweep of the lake ahead of him.

The Bear

The movie The Bear was inspired by this exciting story originally titled The Grizzly King. Thor, a mighty grizzly, and Muskwa, a motherless bear cub, become companions in the Canadian wilderness. Selected by Reader’s Digest, the Scholastic Book Club, the Boy’s Club of America, and the National Wildlife Federation.

The Grizzly King

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER THREE F ALL the living creatures in this sleeping valley, Thor was the busiest. He was a bear with individuality, you might say. Like some people, he went to bed very early; he began to get sleepy in October, and turned in for his long nap in November. He slept until April, and usually was a week or ten days behind other bears in waking. He was a sound sleeper, and when awake he was very wide awake. During April and May he permitted himself to doze considerably in the warmth of sunny rocks, but from the beginning of June until the middle of September he closed his eyes in real sleep just about four hours out of every twelve. He was very busy as Langdon began his cautious climb up the gully. He had succeeded in getting his gopher, a fat, aldermanic old patriarch who had disappeared in one crunch and a gulp, and he was now absorbed in finishing off his day’s feast with i an occasional fat, white grub and a few sour ants captured from under stones which he turned over with his paw. In his search after these delicacies Thor used his right paw in turning over the rocks. Ninety nine wt of every hundred bears probably a hundred and ninety nine out of every two hundred are left handed; Thor was right handed. This gave him an advantage in fighting, in fishing, and in stalking meat, for a grizzly’s right arm is longer than his left so much longer that if he lost his sixth sense of orientation he would be constantly travelling in a circle. In his quest Thor was headed for the gully. Ris huge head hung close to the ground. At short distances his vision was microscopic in its keenness; his olfactory nerves were so sensitive that he could catch one of the big rock ants with his eyes shut. He would choose the flat rocks mostly. His huge right paw, with its…

The Courage of Marge O’Doone

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER in DAVID came up quietly to the door of the smoking compartment where he had left Father Roland. The Little Missioner was huddled in his corner near the window. His head hung heavily forward and the shadows of his black Stetson concealed his face. He was apparently asleep. His hands, with their strangely developed joints and fingers, lay loosely upon his knees. For fully hah7 a minute David looked at him without moving or making a sound, and as he looked, something warm and living seemed to reach out from the lonely figure of the wilderness preacher that filled him with a strangely new feeling of companionship. Again he made no effort to analyze the change in himself; he accepted it as one of the two or three inexplicable phenomena this night and the storm had produced for him, and was chiefly concerned in the fact that he was no longer oppressed by that torment of aloneness which had been a part of his nights and days for so many months. He was about to speak when he made up his mind not to disturb the other. So certain was he that Father Roland was asleep that he drew away from the door on the tips of his toes and reentered the coach. He did not stop in the first or second car, though there were plenty of empty seats and people were rousing themselves into more cheerful activity. He passed throughone and then the other to the third coach, and sat down when he came to the seat he had formerly occupied. He did not immediately look at the woman across the aisle. He did not want her to suspect that he had come back for that purpose. When his eyes did seek her in a casual sort of way he was disappointed. She was almost covered in her coat. He caught only the gleam of her thick, dark hair, and the shape of one slim hand, white as paper in the lampglow. He knew that ah…

Nomads of the North

Nomads of the North CHAPTER ONE IT WAS late in the month of March, at the dying. out of the Eagle Moon, that N eewa the bhLck hea.r cub got his first real look at the world. N oozak, his mother, was an old beal’, and like an old person she was filled with rheumatics and the desire to sleep late. So instead of taking a short and ordinary nap of tluec months this p’articulal’ winter 01 little N eewa”s birth she sleDt four. which. made Neewa, who was born wnne his mother was sound asleep, a little over two months old instead of six weeks when they came out of den. In choosing this den Noozak bad gone to a cavern at the crest of a high, barren ridge, a. nd from this point N ccwa first looked down into the valley. For !. time, coming out of darkness into sunlightJ he was blinded. He could hear and smell and feel many things before he could see. And N’oozak, as s

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The River’s End

Between Conniston, of His Majesty’s Royal Northwest Mounted Police, and Keith, the outlaw, there was a striking physical and facial resemblance. Both had observed it, of course. It gave them a sort of confidence in each other. Between them it hovered in a subtle and unanalyzed presence that was constantly suggesting to Conniston a line of action that would have made him a traitor to his oath of duty. For nearly a month he had crushed down the whispered temptings of this thing between them. He represented the law. He was the law. For twenty seven months he had followed Keith, and always there had been in his mind that parting injunction of the splendid service of which he was a part ‘Don’t come back until you get your man, dead or alive.’ Otherwise A racking cough split in upon his thoughts. He sat up on the edge of the cot, and at the gasping cry of pain that came with the red stain of blood on his lips Keith went to him and with a strong arm supported his shoulders. He said nothing, and after a moment Conniston wiped the stain away and laughed softly, even before the shadow of pain had faded from his eyes. One of his hands rested on a wrist that still bore the ring mark of a handcuff. The sight of it brought him back to grim reality. After all, fate was playing whimsically as well as tragically with their destinies.

The Valley of Silent Men

Before the railroad’s thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of the great white North. It is still Iskwatam the ‘door’ which opens to the lower reaches of the Athabasca, the Slave, and the Mackenzie. It is somewhat difficult to find on the map, yet it is there, because its history is written in more than a hundred and forty years of romance and tragedy and adventure in the lives of men, and is not easily forgotten. Over the old trail it was about a hundred and fifty miles north of Edmonton. The railroad has brought it nearer to that base of civilization, but beyond it the wilderness still howls as it has howled for a thousand years, and the waters of a continent flow north and into the Arctic Ocean. It is possible that the beautiful dream of the real estate dealers may come true, for the most avid of all the sportsmen of the earth, the money hunters, have come up on the bumpy railroad that sometimes lights its sleeping cars with lanterns, and with them have come typewriters, and stenographers, and the art of printing advertiseme*nts, and the Golden Rule of those who sell handfuls of earth to hopeful purchasers thousands of miles away ‘Do others as they would do you.’ And with it, too, has come the legitimate business of barter and trade, with eyes on all that treasure of the North which lies between the Grand Rapids of the Athabasca and the edge of the polar sea.

Back to God’s Country

BACK TO GOD S COUNTRY BACK TO GOD S COUNTRY AND OTHER STORIES BY JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD CONTENTS PAGE BACK TO GOD S COUNTRY…
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220 THEMOUSE 252 BACK TO GOD S COUNTRY BACK TO GOD S COUNTRY WHEN Shan Tung, the long cued Chinaman from Vancouver, started up the Frazer Kiver in the old days when the Telegraph Trail and the headwaters of the Peace were the Meccas of half the gold hunt ing population of British Columbia, he did not fore see tragedy ahead of him. He was a clever man, was Shan Tung, a cha sukeed, a veiy devil in the collecting of gold, and far seeing. But he could not look forty years into the future, and when Shan Tung set off into the north, that winter, he was in reality touching fire to the end of a fuse that was to burn through four decades before the explosion came. With Shan Tung went Tao, a Great Dane. The Chinaman had picked him up somewhere on the coast and had trained him as one trains a horse. Tao was the biggest dog ever seen about the Height of Land, the most powerful, and at times the most terrible. Of two things Shan Tung was enormously proud in his silent and mysterious oriental way of Tao, the dog, and of his long, shining cue which fell to the crook of his knees when he let it down. It had been the longest cue in Vancouver, and there 9

The Flaming Forest

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG An hour ago, under the marvelous canopy of the blue northern sky, David Carrigan, Sergeant in His Most Excellent Majesty’s Royal Northwest Mounted Police, had hummed softly to himself, and had thanked God that he was alive. He had blessed McVane, superin tendent of ‘N’ Division at Athabasca Landing, for detailing him to the mission on which he was bent. He was glad that he was traveling alone, and in the deep forest, and that for many weeks his adventure would carry him deeper and deeper into his beloved north. Making his noonday tea over a fire at the edge of the river, with the green forest crowding like an inundation on three sides of him, he had come to the conclusion for the hundredth time, perhaps that it was a nice thing to be alone in the world, for he was on what his comrades at the Landing called a ‘bad assignment.’ ‘If anything happens to me,’ Carrigan had said to McVane, ‘there isn’t anybody in particular to notify. I lost out in the matter of family a long time ago.’

The Golden Snare

James Oliver Curwood, 1878 1927, was an American novelist and conservationist. He left high school without graduating but was able to pass the entrance exams to the University of Michigan where he studied journalism. In 1900, he sold his first story while working for the Detroit News Tribune. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest, a trip that provided the inspiration for his wilderness adventure stories. The success of his novels afforded him the opportunity to return to the Yukon and Alaska for several months each year that allowed him to write more than thirty such books. By 1922, his writings had made him a very wealthy man and he fulfilled a childhood fantasy by building Curwood Castle in Owosso. An advocate of environmentalism, he was appointed to the Michigan Conservation Commission in 1926. His works include: The Courage of Captain Plum 1908, The Great Lakes 1909, The Danger Trail 1910, The Flower of the North 1912, Kazan 1914, The Hunted Woman 1916, Nomad of the North 1919 and The Valley of Silent Men 1920.

The Country Beyond

The Country Beyond by James Oliver Curwood is love story set in the back woods of Northern Canada during the early 1900s. It is a tale of romance and adventure in the wild, rugged Canadian wilderness. Once again, James Oliver Curwood spins a tale of adventure and romance in the Canadian wilderness with an interesting twist. In this book, the good are not so very good, and the bad becomes the hero in the end. ‘The Law’ puts Jolly Roger McKay on the run, separating him from his love, Nada. Peter, the half Airedale, half Mackenzie hound called Pied Bot is torn between the two and determined to protect both against all enemies, man or beast. This is a heart rending tale of love and heroics between a man, a woman and their little dog, Peter. Sergeant Cassidy, of the Royal Northwest Mounties, chases Jolly Roger across the wilds of Northern Canada in a fair fight in which each takes his turn in winning over the other. With Cassidy always close behind, Jolly Roger heads for his friends of the Cree tribe. There, his dear friend, Yellowbird, predicts that he will once again see Nada in The Country Beyond, a place as yet unknown. Tragedy and comedy avail each of the main characters in this book, Jolly Roger, Sergeant Cassidy, Nada, and even Pied bot as the story advances to determine whether Cassidy will catch McKay before he can reach Nada and escape.

The Alaskan

The Alaskan CHAPTER I CAPT AIN RIFLE, gray and old in The Alaskan Steamship service, had not lost the spirit of his youth along with his years. Romance was not dead in him, and the fire which is built up of clean adventure and the association of strong men and a mighty country had not died out of his veins. He could still see the picturesque, feel the thrill of the unusual, and at times warm memories crowded upon him so closely that yesterday seemed today, and Alaska was young again, thrilling the world with her wild call to those who had courage to come and fight for her treasures, and live or die. Tonight, with the softly musical throb of his ship under his feet, and the yellow moon climbing up from behind the ramparts of The Alaskan mountains, something of loneliness seized upon him, and he said simply: ‘That is Alaska.’ The girl standing beside him at the rail did not turn, nor for a moment did she answer. He could see her profile clear cut as a cameo in the About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books’ Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the difficult to read text. Read books online for free at www. forgottenbooks. org

A Gentleman of Courage

1923. Most of Curwood’s stories were adventure tales set in the Canadian North, where the author spent much of his time. During the 1920s his books were among the most popular in North America, and many were made into movies. The River’s End was the first book to sell more than 100,000 copies in its first edition. The book begins: Pierre Gourdon had the love of God in his heart, a man’s love for a man’s God, and it seemed to him that in this golden sunset of a July afternoon the great Canadian wilderness all about him was whispering softly the truth of his faith and his creed. For Pierre was the son of a runner of the streams and forests, as that son’s father had been before him, and love of adventure ran in his blood, and romance, too; so it was only in the wild and silent places that he felt the soul in him attuned to that fellowship with nature which the good teachers at Ste. Anne de Beaupre did not entirely approve. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Ancient Highway

A romance set in Quebec, made into a Paramount movie in 1925.

The Black Hunter

A rousing epic tale of adventure and romance in Quebec in the 1750’s, about ladies and gentlemen, about Indians and woodsmen, pre Revolutionary days in old Quebec and Fort William Henry, and the French and Indian War. The book begins with a 3 page list of the characters and brief sketches for each.

The Crippled Lady of Peribonka

Peribonka is a quaint little French Canadian village in Quebec. The children have come to believe that it was a miracle which sent the Crippled Lady through the doors of death and then brought her back again, that she might remain with them always. James Oliver Curwood lived most of his life in Owosso, Michigan, where he was born on June 12, 1878. His first novel was The Courage of Captain Plum 1908 and he published one or two novels each year thereafter, until his death on August 13, 1927. Owosso residents honor his name to this day, and Curwood Castle built in 1922 is the town’s main tourist attraction. During the 1920s Curwood became one of America’s best selling and most highly paid authors. This was the decade of his lasting classics The Valley of Silent Men 1920 and The Flaming Forest 1921. He and his wife Ethel were outdoors fanatics and active conservationists.

Swift Lightning

This book was the basis of the 1938 movie, Call of the Yukon.

The Plains of Abraham

1928. Most of Curwood’s stories were adventure tales set in the Canadian North, where the author spent much of his time. During the 1920s his books were among the most popular in North America, and many were made into movies. The River’s End was the first book to sell more than 100,000 copies in its first edition. The Plains of Abraham begins: On a sunny afternoon in May, 1749, a dog, a boy, a man, and a woman had crossed the oak opens of Tonteur’s Hill and were trailing toward the deeper wilderness of the French frontier westward of the Richelieu and Lake Champlain the dog first, the boy following, the man next, and the woman last. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Falkner of Inland Seas

Here are the best of many thrilling stories written by James Oliver Curwood concerning the ships that once plied America’s fresh-water oceans – and the dauntless men who sailed them. These tales of the Inland Seas are reliable word-pictures of vessels and sailors now remembered only by the survivors of a generation that will soon have passed entirely away. Mr. Curwood, though better known as a writer of Canadian wilderness novels, was once regarded as an authority in such matters.

Son of a Hero

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