James Oliver Curwood Books in Order

Captain Plum lands in a world of hidden plans, lake travel, and frontier intrigue. It is an early Curwood adventure, quick on action and built around nerve, secrecy, and escape.

Two boys and their guide head into the Canadian wilderness to trap, hunt, and earn badly needed money. Their winter expedition grows into a larger adventure filled with danger, mystery, and hostile country.

Roderick Drew joins Wabigoon and Mukoki in a dangerous race through the Hudson Bay wilds, chasing both missing kin and rumored gold. It is a classic Curwood adventure of sleds, snow, and pursuit.

Curwood turns from fiction to a broad account of the Great Lakes, tracing their history, trade, ships, and working life. It shows the regional knowledge behind many of his later stories.

An ambitious engineer leaves Chicago for northern Canada and walks straight into a string of accidents that look a lot like murder. The farther he goes, the more the wilderness and the people around him seem to want him gone.

Philip Steele rides into the North as a Mounted Policeman and quickly finds that the law is only one part of the fight. Curwood gives him pursuit, treachery, and romance in a tough frontier setting.

Young Jan Thoreau, known for his violin, becomes part of a lonely household in the deep Canadian North after a dying woman's last night. The story blends wilderness hardship, devotion, and a secret that follows him.

A northern adventure with gold, ambition, and divided loyalties at its heart. Curwood uses the harsh country to test his characters as romance and danger tighten around them.

This short northern romance gives Curwood's familiar Mountie figure a more personal problem than a manhunt. Duty, feeling, and the unforgiving setting push the story along.

Set on the northern trail, this novel pairs danger and romance as a young woman and the men around her are drawn into violence, mistrust, and pursuit. It has the lean pace of Curwood's early wilderness stories.

Philip Weyman reaches the far North full of confidence, only to be pulled into old wounds, family secrets, and a dangerous love story. Curwood blends wilderness beauty with kidnapping, pursuit, and romance.

Half dog and half wolf, Kazan is torn between the call of the wild and the memory of human loyalty. His journey through the northern wilderness makes this one of Curwood's best-known animal adventures.

This edition of Kazan follows the wolf-dog's break from human control and his life beside Gray Wolf in the North. It sets up the bloodline and wild inheritance that later shape Baree's story.

A wilderness story told from the animal side, this book follows a young bear learning the rules of a brutal but beautiful world. Curwood balances danger, instinct, and the uneasy presence of human hunters.

Thor, a huge grizzly, rules his mountain country until hunters enter his world. Curwood follows both bear and men, turning the chase into a story about power, survival, and changing ideas about the wild.

A woman from outside the northern gold country steps into a camp ruled by greed, fear, and unfinished business. Curwood turns her search into a tense frontier tale of pursuit, hidden motives, and romance.

Marge O'Doone grows up in a hard northern world where violence, isolation, and family danger are never far away. Curwood gives the story both frontier suspense and a strong young heroine at its center.

Baree, son of Kazan and Gray Wolf, grows up between the call of the wild and the pull of human kindness. The novel follows his fight to survive and the people he eventually learns to trust.

A bear cub and a dog pup grow up in the same unforgiving northern wilderness, and their lives slowly become intertwined. Curwood tells the adventure largely through the animals, with survival and friendship at the center.

A Mountie and the outlaw he has hunted for years look so much alike that fate gives them a dangerous chance at exchanging lives. Curwood uses the double-identity setup for a tense mix of romance, guilt, and frontier suspense.

Curwood's title story of Wapi the dog throws human greed and raw northern danger together in a harsh Arctic setting. It is a brisk adventure built on animal instinct, loyalty, and survival.

Shot and expecting to die, Sergeant James Kent confesses to a murder his friends cannot believe he committed. His last case opens into love, deception, and a mysterious northern refuge beyond the reach of ordinary law.

Set in the Canadian North, this novel mixes old feuds, river travel, romance, and one spectacular forest fire. Curwood keeps the stakes personal even as the wilderness itself becomes the greatest threat.

Mounted Policeman Philip Raine tracks the feared Bram Johnson into the Barrens and finds a case far stranger than a simple murder hunt. Wolves, an endangered woman, and divided loyalties turn the pursuit into a brutal arctic adventure.

In the wild country beyond the settlements, Nada struggles to escape the brutal hold of Jed Hawkins. A brave dog and the men drawn into her fight help turn this into one of Curwood's more human, hopeful wilderness dramas.

Mary Standish arrives in Alaska carrying secrets, while the bluff Captain Rifle and a younger man are drawn into her trouble. Curwood mixes frontier travel, romance, and danger across the raw northern coast.

Pierre Gourdon grows up in a French-Canadian pioneer world near Lake Superior, carrying family burdens that shape the rest of his life. The novel mixes frontier hardship, loyalty, and romance with a strong sense of place.

Cliff Brant returns to Canada looking for justice after his father's death and is drawn into a struggle involving lumber, power, and love. Rivers, log drives, and the old Quebec waterways give the story its force.

Set in the frozen North, this animal adventure follows Swift Lightning through wolves, snow, hunters, and open barrens. Curwood leans hard into the wilderness side of his fiction, with speed and survival at the center.

Set in old Quebec, this historical adventure follows a mysterious frontiersman whose past and reputation shadow every move he makes. Curwood mixes pursuit, danger, and loyalty in a rough eighteenth-century setting.

In the Peribonka country of northern Quebec, love, injury, and old entanglements collide around a woman changed by one terrible accident. It is one of Curwood's later romances, set against rivers, woods, and hard work.

Curwood moves into historical fiction with a story built around the struggle for Quebec and the famous battle on the Plains of Abraham. It blends war, danger, and romance at a turning point in North American history.

Set on the Great Lakes, this late Curwood novel follows men shaped by hard water, hard weather, and old loyalties. It trades northern forests for ships, ports, and a more grounded kind of adventure.

Curwood's autobiography looks back at his early struggles, newspaper work, wilderness travels, and rise as a bestselling adventure writer. It also shows the ideas about nature and happiness that shaped his later life.

This collection gathers Curwood's best-known northern and backwoods tales in one volume. Expect Mounties, trappers, animals, and people tested by cold, distance, and hard choices.

This collection turns from the far North to the Great Lakes, gathering Curwood stories about ships, storms, and the tough people who worked the inland seas. It is part adventure writing, part tribute to a fading world.

Philip Curtis travels deep into the North to deliver a letter to the mysterious recluse called Peter God. What he finds is a fever-stricken outlaw, an old love, and a hard choice between duty and mercy.

A Mountie rides north to arrest Jan Thoreau for murder, convinced the gentle violin player is no match for the law. But the case grows darker when desire, coercion, and a hidden truth enter the chase.

At a remote trading post, Jan defends the unwritten code of the North when an outsider mocks what the wilderness people hold sacred. The story turns on loyalty, grief, and the quiet dignity behind that hard code.

A Mounted Police sergeant finally captures Billy Loring, only for storm, fire, and bitter cold to trap hunter and hunted together. Their fight to survive turns a manhunt into a tense moral showdown.

Snowbound and nearly driven mad by loneliness, Jim Falkner finds an unlikely companion in a tiny mouse that reaches his cabin from the south. The small visitor becomes a lifeline in a tender wilderness tale about hope and endurance.

Two men race for a rich northern claim, and for the woman tied to both their futures. Curwood turns the rivalry into a test of endurance, jealousy, and unexpected comradeship.

Reese Beaudin returns to a northern post to face the shame, love, and old enemies he left behind. What begins as a homecoming turns into a reckoning over pride, loyalty, and the woman he never forgot.

Thomas Jefferson Brown is a wanderer with a hidden past whose life changes when he meets Lady Isobel. Their story mixes class tension, hard travel, and a dangerous Hudson Bay crossing with romance and bravado.

A woman from outside the northern gold country steps into a camp ruled by greed, fear, and unfinished business. Curwood turns her search into a tense frontier tale of pursuit, hidden motives, and romance.