Kazan is a 1914 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...

. 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. From the evidence in the beginning, we are shown that McCready used to own Kazan, then known as “Pedro,” and that the former was abusive to the latter.