James Oliver Curwood
James Oliver Curwood was born in Owosso on June 12, 1878, and lived
here most of his life. Writing and love of nature were his boyhood
interests, and by 1908 Curwood was earning most of his living as a novelist.
Most of his 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 Castle, built in 1922, was his writing studio, and a number of his
latter works were composed in the tower, overlooking the Shiawassee River.
Curwood became a zealous conservationist, and in 1926 he was appointed
to the Michigan Conservation Commission. He died at his nearby home
on Williams Street on August 13, 1927.*
Curwood Castle Museum - - Open to the public, 1-5 p.m.
daily except Monday, 224 Curwood Castle Drive.
Tel. (517) 723-8844 ext. 554
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James Oliver Curwood Books
1908 The Courage of Captain Plum 1920 The Valley of Silent Men
1908 The Wolf Hunters 1921 God's Country - The Trail to Happiness
1909 The Great Lakes 1921 The Golden Snare
1909 The Gold Hunters 1921 The Flaming Forest
1910 The Danger Trail 1922 The Country Beyond
1911 The Honor of the Big Snows 1923 The Alaskan
1911 Philip Steele 1924 A Gentleman of Courage
(Steele of the Royal Mounted) 1925 The Ancient Highway
1912 The Flower of the North 1926 Swift Lightning
1913 Isobel 1926 The Black Hunter
1914 Kazan 1928 The Plains of Abraham
1915 God's Country and the Woman 1929 The Crippled Lady of Peribonka
1916 The Hunted Woman 1930 Green Timber
1916 The Grizzly King 1930 Son of the Forests
1917 Barec, Son of Kazan (Edited version of his Autobiography)
1918 The Courage of Marge O'Doone 1931 Falkner of the Inland Seas
1919 Nomads of the North 1983 The Glory of the Living (Autobiography -
1919 The River's End reprinted as written and published in
1920 Back to God's Country England in the late 1920s)
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James Oliver Curwood Movies
Back to God's Country (1919) (novel)
Back to God's Country (1953) (novel)
Blood of the Hunter (1995) (novel)
Call of the Klondike (1950) (story)
Call of the Yukon (1938) (novel Swift Lightning)
Country Beyond, The (1936) (story)
Kazan (1949)
Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (1961) (novel)
Ours, L' (1989) (novel The Grizzly King)
... aka The Bear (1989)
River's End (1930) (story)
River's End, The (1920) (story)
Rough Ridin' Rhythm (1938)
Silver Trail, The (1938)
Snow Dog (1950)
Song of the Trail (1936)
Timber War (1936)
Trail Beyond, The (1934) (novel The Wolf Hunters)
Trails of the Wild (1936)
