James Oliver Curwood
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I was born in 1925 in OWOSSO michigan My family name is o'Connor and we lived on williams street across from the curwood home.....I REMEMBER MY CURWOOD COMING ACROSS THE STREET AND REMARKING TO MY MOTHER THAT HE WAS VERY PARTIAL TO AUBURN HAIR WHICH I HAD. i HAVE NOT READ ANY OF HIS BOOKS BUT i WAS TOLD THE WOMEN IN SOME OF HIS BOOKS HAD AUBURN HAIR... i PLAN TO READ AT LEAST ONE OF HIS BOOKS VERY SOON...i HAVE VISITED HIS CASTLE MANY TIMES ON MY RETURN TRIPS TO OWOSSO.
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Hi,
My Dad is looking for a book by JOC. He thinks the name is cash lake winter. i can't seem to find anything by that name. Do you folks have any ideas?
Thanks,
Doug
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My mother's brother, Ralph Tate, was married to Margurite, a relative of James Oliver Curwood. My sister believes she was a sister, but I remember that she was a cousin. Margurite was an accomplished musician and author. She wrote a book about a plane crash in the Alps which was run in the Atlantic Monthly and the Readers Digest around 1945. Aunt Margurite also had at least one painting accepted for hanging in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The last time I visited her in (Skaneatelles {sp?})New York, before they moved to Florida, she had a manuscript in a typing paper box. The book was about their years in the military. She indicated that her publisher said military stories were not in vogue at that time in history and she should hold the manuscript for later publication. My Uncle Ralph was career military and became a general -- at that time the FIRST army general who did not go to West Point. My mother's name was Margaret, her sister was Lucille, and another brother was Milford. All were raised in Owosso, Michigan. My father, Ralph Benham, committed suicide when I was three and we later moved from Owosso to Sturgis, Michigan when my mother remarried several years later. I am now 71, my sister, Shirley, is 76. We have not had contact with Ralph's and Margurite's children since we were young. Their children were Ralph Jr.(Sonny), Gaylord and Beverly. If still living, they are living in the Fort Lauderdale or Clearwater area, we believe.
All of the Tate children, including my mother, are deceased. Ralph was military, Milford was a pharmacist whose son, Barry, later became the City Manager of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Lucille was a nurse who married a pharmacist and they later became retail merchants in Fargo, N.D. Ralph had the three above-mentioned children, Milford and Edna had the one son, Barry. Lucille and Emerson Thompson had no children. My mother had my sister, Shirley, me, my brother, William Strodel. My brother, Bill, is the Chairman of Surgery at Geisinger Clinic in Pennsylvania. My name is L. JoAnn. If ANY of this stuff is of interest to anybody, please let me know.
Incidentally, my sister was married to a baseball professional. My brother is in medicine. I was married to a college president and now am a working artist.
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James Oliver Curwood, Jr., was my grandfather. His daughter is my mother, who is now 75 years old.
James Jr. was killed in a private plane crash when my mother was an infant.
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I believe that James Curwood is a relative of might I think we share a common great grand father James Moran Curwood. If anyone has any further information it would be greatly appreciated
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"God's Country, the Trail to Happiness" and "The Great Lakes: The Vessels That Plough Them Their Owners, Their Sailors, and Their Cargoes Together with a Brief History of Our Inland Seas" are two of several books by Mr. Curwood that are shown to be available at www.tomfolio.com
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In 1960 when I was in 5th grade our teacher would read to us for 15 minutes after lunch recess every day. I distinctly remember Kazan and Baree Son of Kazan, by Curwood.
Now 44 years later I have purchased these books to read to my granddaughter, what an adventure these works still are.
I am looking for another story about the "frozen north"
not sure if its by Curwood though. . .the main character was a RCMP that was taking a prisoner by dog sled to justice somewhere, I think his lead dog was Kazan but can't clearly remember. He had to stay awake for days while wounded and stave off wolves and even his prisoner got lose and tried to kill him but the dog intervened. He relyed on his dog to pull him through in more ways than one.
If any one knows the name of this book and the author, and would be so kind as to pass it along I would really appreciate it.
Bob Pielaet 541-895-3666 bpielaet@peacehealth.org
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