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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.*
*From Curwood Castle's Michigan Historical Sites Marker
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Curwood Castle Museum
Open to the public, 1-5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday
224 Curwood Castle Drive
Owosso, Michigan
Tel. (989) 723-2155 or (989) 725-0599
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James Oliver Curwood Books
1908 The Courage of Captain Plum
1920 The Valley of Silent Men
1908 The Wolf Hunters
1909 The Gold Hunters
1909 The Great Lakes
1910 The Danger Trail
1911 The Honor of the Big Snows
1911 Philip Steele
1912 The Flower of the North
1921 God's Country - The Trail to Happiness
1913 Isobel
1914 Kazan
1915 God's Country and the Woman
1916 The Hunted Woman
1916 The Grizzly King
1917 Barec, Son of Kazan (Edited version of his Autobiography)
1918 The Courage of Marge O'Doone
1921 The Golden Snare
1921 The Flaming Forest
1922 The Country Beyond
1923 The Alaskan
1924 A Gentleman of Courage (Steele of the Royal Mounted)
1925 The Ancient Highway
1926 Swift Lightning
1926 The Black Hunter
1928 The Plains of Abraham
1929 The Crippled Lady of Peribonka
1930 Green Timber
1930 Son of the Forests
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)
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)
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