The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-08-17
sTHE ALASKAN"

James Oliver Curwood, who has
aptly been called "the last great ro-
| mancer,' Is known to and loved by
gigantic audiences as the author Of
many thrilling novels Of mystery and
adventure with the Canadian North
woods as there setting.
But at last Curwood has come forth
with great romance Of this countrys
own picturesque Northland, the lure
of which even President Harding was
unable to resist. If you are one Of
those who has labored under the i'm
preston that Curwood's late novels,
each of which has jumped into the
"best-seller" class on the day Of its
publication, have been about the last
word in excitement and tingling sus-
pense, read this new book of his and
find out what tremendous wallop
Curwood has been keeping up his
sleeve all the years that he has been
getting ready for this Alaskan novel!
From the point where he starts off
with a pathetic little bride fleeing a
| money mad husband on their wedding
| day Curwood has his audience with
him one hundred per cent. Mary
Standish fights her way up the gang
plank OF the steamer Nome at Seattle
after five hundred passengers had
been turned away. If you, as did the
late Col Roosevelt, enjoy the mental
| excitement of trying to figure out
a mystery aIead of the author, you'll
thrill to the double mystery of that
startling night when, with the Nome
! nearing its destination, cOld-blOoded
murder is attempted in one of the
cabins of the ship and shrieking
girl plunges overheard into the icy
| waters that separate the United
States from Siberia by scant thirty
five miles.
With sure and smooth-flowing
skill that takes into account the fact
that most Americans thoroughly en-
joy being surprised and, if possible,
outwitted, Curwood sweeps you on to
an intimate vision of flower-covered
tundras mis-named "the Barren
Lands" He shows you the lives, the
hopes, the ambitions Of those who
nave cast their fate with Alaska per-
manently. and how a new Empire of
the North Is gradually rising out of
he ashes OF an earlier generation
hopes for sudden wealth.
Alan Holt, Curwoods hero in THE
Alaskan" is one of the modern young
land and reindeer barons. He's can
n Tho hi ha fno
ed in his life was pretty women. The
| mysterious girl on the nortn-bound
| boat is a new kind of woman to him.
| though, and after she plunges over
board he allows himself to ponder
how wonderful she was. He falls in
love with memory. Weeks later at
home in the Barren Lands" he thinks
he sees her again. Knowing her to be
a gnOst, he reaches out to kiss her
and she scratches him!
How and why she escaped from the
bOat-and the glorious knock down
and drag out battle that these many
interviewer destinies make inevitable
before the book comes to an end
these constitute the reason why there
can be no doubt that THE Alaskan"
will more than live up to the expecta
tons of the multitude that already
looks upon the publication of one of
Curwood's new books as the greatest
literary treat of the year. It's one of
those books-and rare books they are
that you want to cheer aloud for
the people in it when you've turned
the last page. Published by the Cos
mopolitan Book Corporation, price $2