1920. 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. Contents: Back to God's Country; The Yellow-Back; The Fiddling Man; L'Ange; The Case of Beauvais; The Other Man's Wife; The Strength of Men; The Match; The Honor of Her People; Bucky Severn; His First Penitent; Peter God; and The Mouse. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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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
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WHEN Shan Tung, the long-cued Chinaman from Vancouver, started up the Frazer River in the old days when the Telegraph Trail and the headwaters of the Peace were the Meccas of half the gold-hunting population of British Columbia, he did not foresee tragedy ahead of him. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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WHEN Shan Tung, the long-cued Chinaman from Vancouver, started up the Frazer River in the old days when the Telegraph Trail and the headwaters of the Peace were the Meccas of half the gold-hunting population of British Columbia, he did not foresee tragedy ahead of him. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hooded stranger, little cuss, arctic night Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peter God, Reese Beaudin, Jacques Dupont, Joe Delesse, Lac Bain, Francois Breault, Father Charles, Joseph Brecht, Jan Larose, Jan Thoreau, Shan Tung, Captain Rydal, Beeg Snows, Porcupine City, Clarry O'Grady, John Cummins, Andre Beauvais, Corporal Blake, Fort Confidence, Hudson's Bay, Supreme Arbiter, Great Dane, Meleese Cummins, Philip Curtis, Corporal Carr New!
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