CHAPTER TEN

_Trail’s End_ _Page_ 172

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD Frontispiece

_The following illustrations are contained in a special section facing page_ 110

JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD AT THE AGE OF SEVEN Page I

STREET SCENE Page II

THE SHIAWASSEE RIVER Page III

THE JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD CASTLE Page IV

THE BOAT LANDING, CURWOOD CASTLE Page V

JUST JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD Page VI

MR. AND MRS. JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD Page VII

CURWOOD, CAMPING IN THE YUKON Page VIII

CURWOOD, THE WRITER, IN A CORNER OF HIS GUN ROOM Page IX

CURWOOD BEFORE THE CABIN WHICH HE BUILT IN THE BRITISH COLUMBIA MOUNTAINS Page X

CURWOOD, THE WOODSMAN Page XI

AN UNUSUAL, STRIKING PICTURE OF CURWOOD Page XII

THE CURWOOD OUTFIT GOING DOWN THE FRASER RIVER Page XIII

THE CABIN ON THE AU SABLE Page XIV

THE CONSERVATION CLUBHOUSE Page XIV

THE HOME OF JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD Page XV

CURWOOD GRAVE IN OAKHILL CEMETERY Page XVI

_Pen and Ink Sketches by_ J. C. WEBER _Pages_ 71, 99, 135, 139, 145

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My greatest obligation in the preparation of _JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD: DISCIPLE OF THE WILDS_ is to Mrs. Ethel Greenwood Curwood, Mr. A. J. Donovan and Mrs. Fred B. Woodard, of Owosso, Mich., who aided me immensely in gathering Mr. Curwood’s volumes, documents, correspondence, photographs, manuscripts and other material without which it would have been impossible to produce this biography.

Thanks and appreciation go out also to the following for help and encouragement:

J. E. Campbell, editor of the _Argus-Press_, Owosso, Mich.; John S. Deere; Miss Anne Crum; Dr. Harold D. Webb; The Conservation Department of the State of Michigan; the Alumni Catalog Office of the University of Michigan; Doubleday, Doran and Company, of New York City (through whose courtesy many quotations have been made available for publication in this book[1]); C. A. Paquin; Harold Titus; Miss Olive Hormel, of Owosso; R. K. Bresnahan, Postmaster and close friend of Curwood’s, at Roscommon, Mich.; Private George Terashita, Camp Atterbury, Ind.; James B. Hendry, of Sutton’s Bay, Mich.; James Hilton, of Hollywood, Calif.; John Bowen, Staff Writer, _Indianapolis Times_; Roscommon Civic Club; John Sellers, of Franklin, Ind.; _The Franklin Evening Star_; Robert Todd; James B. Young, Miss Barbara Swiggett, and to countless others.

Footnote 1:

From “Son of the Forest,” by James Oliver Curwood, copyright, 1930, by Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc.

I also wish to thank the public and state libraries of Indiana for allowing me the use of material. And it is a pleasure to express appreciation to the kind people of Owosso, Mich., to the students of yesteryear at the University of Michigan, and to the Cree and Chippawayan Indian tribes in Canada, all of whom knew Mr. Curwood intimately.

Harvey Jacobs, a newspaperman, is also remembered for his encouragement and good wishes, and last, but far from least, Walter Winchell, whose seemingly endless supply of energy and driving force helped to push me onward in the task of completing this book.

H. D. SWIGGETT

_Au Sable Study_

_Franklin, Ind._

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