“james oliver curwood”

It was all new - most of it singularly dramatic and even appalling to the woman who sat with the pearl-gray veil drawn closely about her face. For eighteen hours she had been a keenly attentive, wide-eyed, and partly frightened bit of humanity in this onrush of "the horde." She had heard a voice beh... More

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 t... More

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 t... More

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.... More

If it had not been for Gray Wolf's blindness and the memory of that day on the Sun Rock when the lynx had destroyed her eyes she would have given birth to Baree in the open and his legs would have been quite strong.... More

Bram Johnson was an unusual man even for the northland. He was above all other things a creature of environment-and necessity and of that something else which made of him at times a man with a soul and at others a brute with the heart of a devil.... More

BACK TO GOD S COUNTRY BACK TO GOD S COUNTRY AND OTHER STORIES BY JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD CONTENTS PAGE BACK TO GOD S COUNTRY . . . . w ., . THE YELLOW-BACK . .amplt ri . 54 THE FIDDLING MAN L ANGE . . 107 THE CASE OF BEAUVAIS 79 115 THE OTHER MAN S WIFE 128 THE STRENGTH OF MEN 137 THEMATCH 160 THE HONO... More

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-m... More