
'Poleon and his daughter Oachi live a quiet existence in the North Woods, as do their neighbors, André and Marie Beauvais. Doré, a villainous whiskey runner fleeing from the Northwest Mounted Police, is hospitably welcomed by 'Poleon; but when he forces his attentions on Oachi, her father drives him away.


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" ::selection{background:#EAB308;color:#000}h2{color:#C2410C;border-bottom:2px solid #0E7490;display:inline-block;margin-top:1.4em}h3{color:#EAB308}em,i{color:#0E7490;font-weight:600} James Oliver Curwood’s pulp mysticism has always occupied a liminal corridor between Sunday-school tract and blood-in-the-snow potboiler. Yet Harry O. Hoyt’s screen translation of God's Country and the Law—long buried beneath the avalanche of 1918 war-era propaganda reels—emerges from nitrate purgatory as a startli..."
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