Baree, Son of Kazan

For the 1918 film, see Baree, Son of Kazan (1918 film). For the 1925 film, see Baree, Son of Kazan (1925 film).

Baree, Son of Kazan (1917) is an American novel by James Oliver Curwood. About a wild wolfdog pup who bonds with a girl living with her trapper father on the frontier, it is the sequel to Kazan.

Baree, Son of Kazan

Illustration from 1917 edition
Author	James Oliver Curwood
Publisher	Grosset & Dunlap, NY
Publication date	1917 First Edition
Pages	303
Preceded by	Kazan

Plot

Baree, Son of Kazan is a novel about a wild wolfdog pup sired by Kazan (1/4 wolf, 3/4 dog) and born of blind Greywolf (pure wolf). It explores Baree's survival after he is separated as a young pup from his parents. He eventually is cared for by Nepeese and her father Pierrot, a trapper.

He bonds with Nepeese, and the novel develops 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. He used this theme of a strong heroine, rather than a male hero, in many of his stories.

Films

The novel was adapted as a film, Baree, Son of Kazan (1918), starring Nell Shipman as Nepeese. In 1925 David Smith directed a revised film version by the same title, starring Anita Stewart.

See also

• Curwood, James Oliver (1917), Baree: Son of Kazan, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, full scanned text on the Internet Archive