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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
God’s Country-and the Woman 
A Tale of the 
‘Aristocracy 
of the 
North” 
By 
JAMES 
OLIVER 
CURWOOD 
Author of “Kazan,'” “The Honor of the Great Snows, "etc. 
A ROMANCE of the North Woods and the strange promise 
that Philip Weyman is. called upon to make by a girl he 
meets far off in “God’s Country.” 
Mr. Curwood tells vividly of the life of the “Aristocracy of 
the North,” as he calls it — that splendid race of the Hudson 
Bay country, whose ancestry, if the facts 
were known, could be traced back to the 
best blood of France and England of two 
centuries ago. The story of Philip’s 
love for Josephine, of his attempts to 
solve the mystery that hangs over Adare 
House — of the fight with Thoreau’s 
“bad men” and its dramatic outcome, 
make “God's Country — and the Wom- 
an” one of the really notable tales of 
life on the only frontier that is now left. 
The Author — Arctic Explorer 
Six months of every year Mr. Curwood spends in this far 
Northlands — “God’s Country” he names it. He has been 
Twice to the Arctic 
Three times to the Barren Lands 
Four times to Hudson’s Bay 
Twice into the terra incognita between the 
Great Bear and the Great Slave Lakes 
Twice through the untraveled mountains 
of British Columbia to the Yukon 
All the characters in “God’s Country — and the Woman” 
are real people — men and women that he has met and 
lived with on these exploring trips. 
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How the Author First Met the 
Real “Josephine” of the Story: 
Her right name is Melisse Cum- 
mins. 
I shall never forget the first day I 
saw her, and that scene I have de- 
scribed, as the picture was painted 
for me then, in the meeting of Jose- 
phine and Philip Weyman beside the 
rock in my novel. I had come up 
with Cummins, her husband, who 
had been down to the edge of civili- 
zation. She stood in the doorway 
of a log cabin that was overgrown 
with woodvine and mellow with 
the dull red glow of the climbing 
bakneesh, with the warmth of the 
late summer sun falling upon her bare 
head. Cummin’s shout had brought 
her to the door when we were still half 
a rifle-shot down the river; a second 
shout, close to shore, brought her run- 
ning down toward us. In that first 
view I had of her I called her beautiful. 
It was chiefly, I think, because of her 
splendid hair, her lithe slimness, and 
the color and glow in her face and eyes. 
John Cummins’ shout of home-coming 
had caught her with her hair undone, 
and she greeted us with the dark and 
lustrous masses of it sweeping about 
her shoulders and down to her hips. 
Thus it was that I received my intro- 
duction and touched the hand of 
Melisse Cummins, the FlorenceNight- 
ingale of several thousand square 
miles of northern wilderness. 
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