Book Description
A grueling tale of "the frozen nothingness" of the Canadian Northwest and of the Royal Mounted Police. A man whose greatest crime was in befriending a band of starving Indians is branded a criminal. A Mountie is drawn, samurai-like, between his duty to the Crown, and his humanity toward anyone, outlaw or not, who is at base a good man.
The Country Beyond was a 1926 movie, starring Prince the Great Dane of 20th century Fox studios, who claimed him to be the highest-priced canine villain in screendom
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
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About the Author
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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