Back to God's Country and Other Stories

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Back to God's Country and Other Stories, by James Oliver Curwood This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Back to God's Country and Other Stories Author: James Oliver Curwood Posting Date: August 11, 2009 [EBook #4539] Release Date: October, 2003 First Posted: February 5, 2002 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY *** Produced by Dianne Bean. HTML version by Al Haines. BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY AND OTHER STORIES BY JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD CONTENTS Back to God's Country The Yellow-Back The Fiddling Man L'ange The Case of Beauvais The Other Man's Wife The Strength of Men The Match The Honor of Her People Bucky Severn His First Penitent Peter God The Mouse BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY When Shan Tung, the long-cued Chinaman from Vancouver, started up the Frazer River in the old days when the Telegraph Trail and the headwaters of the Peace were the Meccas of half the gold-hunting population of British Columbia, he did not foresee tragedy ahead of him. He was a clever man, was Shan Tung, a cha-sukeed, a very devil in the collecting of gold, and far-seeing.