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The Northern or Northwestern is a genre in various arts that tell stories set primarily in the late 19th or early 20th century in the north of North America, primarily in western Canada but also in Alaska. It is similar to the Western genre, but many elements are different, as appropriate to its setting. It is common for the central character to be a Mountie instead of a cowboy or sheriff. Other common characters include fur trappers and traders, lumberjacks, prospectors, First Nations people, settlers, and townsfolk.
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The Son of the Wolf is a 1922 American silent Western film directed by Norman Dawn and starring Edith Roberts, Wheeler Oakman and Sam Allen. It is a northern set in Canada's Yukon and is based on a short story of the same name by Jack London.
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- ↑ Rebecca Stefoff (4 April 2002). Jack London: An American Original (Oxford Portraits). Oxford University Press. pp. 58–. ISBN 978-0-19-512223-7.
- ↑ Leonard Cassuto; Jeanne Campbell Reesman (1998). Rereading Jack London. Stanford University Press. pp. 127–. ISBN 978-0-8047-3516-2.
- ↑ Blanche H. Gelfant; Lawrence Graver (1 April 2004). The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. Columbia University Press. pp. 343–. ISBN 978-0-231-11099-0.
- 1 2 Alex Kershaw (20 August 2013). Jack London: A Life. St. Martin's Press. pp. 82–. ISBN 978-1-4668-5169-6.
- ↑ Carolyn Johnston (1984). Jack London--an American Radical?. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-24464-3.
- ↑ John Perry (October 1981). Jack London, an American myth . Nelson-Hall. ISBN 978-0-88229-378-3.
- ↑ Leonard Cassuto; Jeanne Campbell Reesman (1998). Rereading Jack London. Stanford University Press. pp. 255–. ISBN 978-0-8047-3516-2.
- ↑ Gay Salisbury; Laney Salisbury (17 February 2005). The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic. W. W. Norton. pp. 279–. ISBN 978-0-393-07621-9.