Kazan is a 1914 novel written by James Oliver Curwood. It is the prequel to Baree, Son of Kazan.
The book starts out with Kazan, who is 1/4 wolf and 3/4 dog, going up north to the Canadian wilderness with his owners, the Thorpes, where they are greeted by a man known as McCready. From the evidence in the beginning, we are shown that McCready used to own Kazan, then known as “Pedro,” and that the former was abusive to the latter.