George E. Wood

<h1><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>A Son's Discovery. A Father's Legacy. A Wilderness Where Justice Was Hard-Won.</em></strong></h1><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When author George E. Wood Jr. uncovered a bundle of century-old newspaper clippings in the ashes of a house fire he had no idea he was about to step into the forgotten world of his father-</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>legendary Minnesota Game Warden George E. Wood.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Between </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>1911 and 1923</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Warden Wood patrolled the wild North Country with grit and a revolver battling poachers bootleggers and backwoods criminals in a lawless frontier.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Determined to preserve this legacy Wood Jr. returned to his father's old territory piecing together the story from over 600 articles and official reports. The result is a vivid true-life portrait of a man who turned Minnesota's wilderness into his courtroom-and often risked his life to do it.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>More than a personal tribute this gripping historical narrative immerses readers into a turbulent era shaped by prohibition the Great War organized crime and industrial expansion. Warden Wood is the untold story of a fearless lawman and the wild country he tamed.</span></p><p></p><h1><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Step into the woods-justice is waiting.</em></strong></h1>