Baree, Son of Kazan is a 1917 novel written by James Oliver Curwood

James Oliver Curwood

James Oliver Curwood was an American novelist and conservationist. His writing studio, Curwood Castle, is now a museum in Owosso, Michigan.-Biography and career:Curwood was born in Owosso, the youngest of four children...

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Kazan (novel)

Kazan is a 1914 novel written by James Oliver Curwood. It is the prequel to Baree, Son of Kazan.-Plot:The book starts out with Kazan, who is 1/4 wolf and 3/4 dog, going up north to the Canadian wilderness with his owners, the Thorpes, where they are greeted by a man known as McCready...

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Baree, Son of Kazan is a story about a wild wolfdog

Wolfdog

A wolfdog is a canid hybrid resulting from the mating of a wolf and a dog . The term "wolfdog" is preferred by most of the animals' proponents and breeders because the domestic dog recently was taxonomically recategorized as a subspecies of wolf...

pup sired by Kazan (1/4 wolf, 3/4 dog) and damed by blind Greywolf (pure wolf). This story is about Baree's survival after being separated from his parents as a young pup. He eventually finds himself in the care of Nepeese and her father Pierrot, a trapper. He bonds with Nepeese, and the story goes from there. James Oliver Curwood took the well used "a boy and his dog" formula, and created a great adventure story about a girl and her dog. A successful formula featuring a strong heroine, rather than a male hero, that he used in many of his stories.