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• Three of James Curwood’s novels are in this Kindle eBook: Back to God’s Country, Isobel: A Romance of the Northern Trail and The Courage of Captain PlumBack To God's Country and Other Stories (1915)Thirteen of James Curwood's short stories including adventures in Canada's Northwest, the Arctic and Hudson's Bay.Isobel: A Romance of the Northern Trail (1913)Curwood combines romance and murder in this wilderness adventure that begins: "At Point Fullerton, one thousand miles straight north of civilization, Sergeant William MacVeigh wrote with the stub end of a pencil between his fingers the last words of his semi-annual report to the Commissioner of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police at Regina.He concluded: “I beg to say that I have made every effort to run down Scottie Deane, the murderer. I have not given up hope of finding him, but I believe that he has gone from my territory .'”The Courage of Captain Plum.(1908)Nathaniel Plum gets tangled in a cult of Mormons while captain of a sloop loaded with barrels of gunpowder. About The AuthorAmerican author James Oliver Curwood (1878 –1927) wrote action-adventure novels and his bestsellers were among the most read books in America in the 1900s. More than a dozen Hollywood films have been based on his frontier novels including “The Bear.”James Oliver Curwood's books include: The Courage of Captain Plum -1908 The Wolf Hunters – 1908The Gold Hunters – 1909The Danger Trail – 1910 The Honor of the Big Snows –1911Steele of the Royal Mounted –1911The Flower of the North –1912Isobel: A Romance of the Northern Trail or Icebound Hearts –1913God's Country and the Woman –1915The Hunted Woman –1916The Grizzly King –1916The Courage of Marge O'Doone –1918Nomads of the North – 1919 The River's End – 1919 Back to God's Country and Other Stories –1920The Valley of Silent Men – 1920God's Country – The Trail to Happiness –1921The Golden Snare –1921The Flaming Forest –1921The Country Beyond – 1922

First G&D photoplay edition illustrated with scenes from the First National Production. A VG copy in a VG dust jacket. Rubs to the outer corners and small frays at the head and heel of the spine. Dust spotting to the page blocks. Gift inscription inked on the front endpaper. The dust jacket has chips at its outer corners and at the head and heel of its spine. Tanning to the spine and dust soiling to the panels. Rubs along the spine edges and outer folds.

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 - - 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. He was a clever man, was Shan Tung, a cha-sukeed, a very 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 therefore it was the longest cue in British Columbia.

Thirteen of the author’s most famous short stories of adventure in the Canadian Northwest, the Arctic Circle, the Great Barrens, Hudson's Bay posts, and with Royal Northwest Mounted Police. The title story is an amazing hero-tale easily comparable to Jack London -- for the hero is a Great Dane brought to the Frazer River by a Chinese gold prospector, and the dog, Wapi, fought against unbeatable odds to defend the honor of a woman he had decided was his mistress. "The Match" and a few others are Mounties tales. "The Case of Beauvois" is a macabre tale of murder. "The Mouse" is about just such a pet kept in a sourdough's pocket. All these stories set in "the white wilderness of moaning storm" are simply outstanding. Today most Americans are unfamiliar with Canada's grand history, but in Curwood's heyday American children were as apt to play at being red-coated Mounties as they were at being cowboys.

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 - - 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. He was a clever man, was Shan Tung, a cha-sukeed, a very 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 therefore it was the longest cue in British Columbia.

James Oliver "Jim" Curwood (1878-1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books ranked among Publisher's Weekly top-ten best sellers in the United States in the early 1920s. Back to God's Country includes "thirteen of Curwood's most famous tales of the Northland. Here are the snows and chilling cold of the Arctic Circle, the loneliness of the Great Barrens, the sputter and play of the Northern Lights, the intense silence of the wilderness forests."