The Golden Snare
By James Oliver Curwood
Format: Paperback Book
Pages: 200
Illustrations and Photos: 6
ISBN 978-0-9723970-5-6
Price: $13.99 US
The Golden Snare, by James Oliver Curwood is a tale of high adventure in the Canadian wilderness in the early 1900s. When Sergeant Phillip Raine of the Northwest Mounted Police finds the golden snare he embarks on a dangerous journey to discover its origins. From dog sled, to snow shoes, across barrens and through blizzards, he risks his life to track down Bram Johnson and learn the fate of the owner of the golden snare.
An excerpt from the book:
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"For a few minutes after the wolf-man and his hunters had gone from the corral Philip did not move from the window. He almost forgot that the girl was standing behind him. At no time since Pierre Breault had revealed the golden snare had the situation been more of an enigma to him than now. Was Bram Johnson actually mad—or was he playing a colossal sham? The question had unleashed itself in his brain with a suddenness that had startled him. Out of the past a voice came to him distinctly, and it said, “A madman never forgets!” It was the voice of a great alienist, a good friend of his, with whom he had discussed the sanity of a man whose crime had shocked the country. He knew that the words were true. Once possessed by an idea the madman will not forget it. It becomes an obsession with him—a part of his existence. In his warped brain a suspicion never dies. A fear will smolder everlastingly. A hatred lives steadily on.
If Bram Johnson was mad would he play the game as he was playing it now? He had almost killed Philip ..."
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Best Selling author, James Oliver Curwood, once again spins a tale that takes the reader through forests and across the vast Northern wilderness of upper Canada to near the Artic. Having lived these stories himself, Curwood authentically writes of the wild ruggedness of the land and the people in his timeless stories and characters.
Over twenty of James Oliver Curwood’s books were made into movies during the 20th Century. This book includes the original photos from the classic movie of the same name, made in in 1921 staring Lewis Stone as Philip Raine, Wallace Beary as Bram and Ruth Renick as Celie. Our version of this book, republished from an original, contains restored images from the movie showing Ruth Renick as Celie on the front cover.
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