James Oliver Curwood - A Little Known Michigan Author's Life Between River and North Woods

How Owosso-born novelist James Oliver Curwood rose from small-town Michigan to global fame and became an early conservation voice along the Shiawassee River.

For most readers today, the name James Oliver Curwood barely registers. A century ago, the Owosso native was one of America’s best-known adventure writers, his wilderness novels selling in the millio…