Silver Chief, Dog of the North (Famous Dog Stories).

New York:: Grosset & Dunlap, 1933.. Reprint Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: beige 'tweed' binding with the series banner device on the front cover; the top edge tint is a dark shade; owner's name and address on the front endpaper, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Description: This edition is from the Famous Dog Stories series, and is not illustrated. Silver Chief, the son of Dee -- a husky mother run wild -- and a wolf father. grows up wild, mistrusting man. Seeing his mother killed by a man intensifies his mistrust. Sergeant Jim Thorne of the Canadian Northwest Mounted Police, trailing a murder suspect, takes up his winter quarters in Silver Chief's hunting grounds. Jim determines to capture Silver Chief and make him his friend and a leader of his dog team. He finally captures the dog, but has his work cut out for him in winning Silver Chief's friendship, but win it he does. And a great friendship is born. When the murder suspect turns on his tracker and ambushes Jim, Silver Chief proves his friendship. Note: the only printed date is the original 1933 copyright; this series circa 1950s and 1960s.