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There are so many kinds of madness, so many ways in which the human brain may go wrong; and so often it happens that what we call madness is both reasonable and just. It is so. Yes. A little reason is good for us, a little more makes wise men of some of us--but when our reason over-grows us and we reach too far, something breaks and we go insane.

James Oliver Curwood

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.

James Oliver Curwood

In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused.

James Oliver Curwood

James Oliver Curwood

James Oliver Curwood

Born: June 12, 1878

Died: August 13, 1927 (aged 49)

Bio: James Oliver "Jim" Curwood was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books ranked among Publisher's Weekly top-ten best sellers in the United States in the early 1920s.

Known for:

Baree, Son of Kazan (1917)
Kazan (1914)
The Grizzly King (1916)
The Wolf Hunters (1908)
The Golden Snare (1918)

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