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A classic adventure in which North-West Mounted Police sergeant David Carrigan fights Indians and wooes Jeanne-Marie.

Book Excerpt: end of a straight line between his rock and the nearest spruce and balsam. From that angle he could not completely shelter himself. But the man a hundred yards below had not moved a foot from his ambush since he had fired his first shot. That had come when Carrigan... Read Full Overview

James Oliver Curwood, (June 12, 1878 - August 13, 1927), was an American novelist and conservationist. A great number of his works were turned into movies, several of which starred Nell Shipman as a brave and adventurous woman in the wilds of the north. Many films from Curwood's... Read Full Overview

The Flaming Forest is an adventure novel by James Curwood first published in 1921.

An hour ago, under the marvelous canopy of the blue northern sky, David Carrigan, Sergeant in His Most Excellent Majesty's Royal Northwest Mounted Police, had hummed softly to himself, and had thanked God that he was alive. He had blessed McVane, superintendent of "N" Division... Read Full Overview

The Flaming Forest is unapologetic northern Romance in the grandest tradition. In the hands of James Oliver Curwood, Canada is transformed into a land of mystery and myth, a place where the Mountie still gets his man and the French Canadian rivermen (with their scarlet headscarves)... Read Full Overview

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The Flaming Forest, by James Oliver Curwood, is a rip-roaring tale of travel through the upper Canadian wilderness during the early 1900s, with a forest fire and of course a love story, all combined to bring a book that you can not put down.
David Carrigan, out in the... Read Full Overview

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This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

The Flaming Forest