James Oliver Curwood 
Baree, Son of Kazan 

Since the publication of my two animal books, “Kazan” and “The Grizzly King, ” I have received so many hundreds of letters from friends of wild animal life, all of which were more or less of an enquiring nature, that I have been encouraged to incorporate in this preface of the third of my series—“Baree, Son of Kazan”—something more of my desire and hope in writing of wild life, and something of the foundation of fact whereupon this and its companion books have been written.