James Oliver Curwood: God's Country and the Man : Popular Press : 9780879726058 : 0879726059 : 30 Jun 1993 : When the wounded bear he faced on a mountain ledge that day turned aside, James Oliver Curwood's relief was that his life had been spared. More than that resulted from this encounter; his life was profoundly altered. Curwood was 35 that summer of 1914, and already a well-known author of Great Lakes fiction and non-fiction and novels of romance and adventure set in the Canadian north. Now he would become an avid conservationist in the early days of that movement, a change that would lead indirectly to his death 13 years later. In the meantime, however, he wrote relentlessly - magazine stories and books and then for the new medium of motion pictures. Like many authors of his day, he was, for a time, actively involved in movie-making, until the plight of the forests and wildlife in his home state of Michigan turned his energies toward conservation. A man ahead of his time, and quic