James Oliver "Jim" Curwood (1878-1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books ranked among Publisher's Weekly top-ten best sellers in the United States in the early 1920s. In The River's End, a wanted man is captured by a Canadian Mountie, but he assumes the Mounties' identity when the man dies on their way back to Hudson's Bay Post. Unfortunately, the dead Mountie has enemies of his own.