The Time of Civilized Bears & The World of Witagg
Northern Canada Book review The Canadian Northern (or Northwestern) novel once had a high place in the Best Seller fiction lists — back in the first half of the 20th Century. From the release of Jack London’s masterwork THE CALL OF THE WILD in 1903, stories of the Land of the Northern Lights drew an […]
Our Two Great Canadian Literary Genres “The animals are us.” – Margaret Atwood When Charles G D Roberts created the Realistic Animal Story in the 1890’s, he gave the world the first Canadian Literary Genre. When the Reverend Charles William Gordon followed with his Corporal Cameron novels, he perfected the second great Canadian […]
THE DOG STORIES OF MAX BRAND Today, we think more of dog stories by James Herriot than by a popular pulp fiction writer. But listen… Frederick Faust has been called “The Shakespeare of the Western Range.” (Kirkus Reviews). Faust published over 300 Western novels in his lifetime, using nineteen pseudonyms, of which he’s […]
“Just you and the love of your life and a happy team of sled dogs, alone together in the Great White North — that’s the last act of pure Freedom still available on the planet.” – Brian Alan Burhoe CALL OF THE NORTHWESTERN GENRE: BEST BOOKS, ANIMAL STORIES & MOUNTIE FICTION The […]
THE ADVENTURES OF RIN TIN TIN — And Rusty “The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin.” We Boomers, boys and girls, loved it. I certainly did. Why not? It combined my two favourite genres: Animal Stories and Westerns/Northwesterns. Lots of outdoor action — and Rinty, played by Rin-Tin-Tin IV, was a natural. “Adventures” first aired on […]
“I made up for my dog-less boyhood…” Tame Animals We Have Known Maybe it’s losing Betty White, don’t know, but this Valentine’s Day we’re thinking of ALL our family members we love. Human. Canine. Feline. Those with us now, those of other years… We’re a four-dog family (one after another, and not […]
Who are these Civilized Bears? “Long, long ago, when Civilized Bears were new to the world and the land was still greening, there were many more Humans haunting their dark ruins…” Come to the Time of Civilized Bears. They’re warm, comic and love all living creatures. Yes, even the […]
