Etext prepared by Dianne Bean, Prescott Valley, Arizona. 

Baree, Son of Kazan.
James Oliver Curwood. 

Preface 

Since the publication of my two animal books, "Kazan, the Wolf Dog" 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
inquiring 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. 

I have always disliked the preaching of sermons in the pages of
romance.  It is like placing a halter about an unsuspecting reader's