. Two of Canadian author Ralph Connor's best-selling books are bound together in this Kindle edition: The Foreigner (1909) & The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail
The Foreigner (1909)
Ukrainian immigrant Kalman Kalmar comes of age in turn-of-the century Saskatchewan.
The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail (1914)
It is the 1800s in southern Alberta and the Canadian Royal Mounted Police must confront the threat of a native uprising, and must rely on a dangerous half breed and a retired trooper to quell the unrest. This well written and well plotted novel is a western must-read.
About The Author
Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon (aka Ralph Connor) was born in 1860 in Glengarry County Ontario, the son of a Free Church of Scotland Missionary in Upper Canada. The family moved from Glengarry to Harrington, Oxford County, Ontario when he was a youth. Like many other young men in the area, Gordon went to Toronto to study at University of Toronto. He then attended Knox College and graduated with distinction in 1886. Like his father, he was a Church leader, first in the Presbyterian and later the United churches in. Gordon was also at one time a master at Upper Canada College. For more than half of his life, he made Winnipeg his home. He sold more than five million copies of his works in his lifetime. He died in 1937, Canada's best-selling author. His novels describe life in the Rocky Mountain mines and lumber camps of eastern Ontario, and documented Canadian life in the early years of the 20th century.
Other Books By The Same Author
Glengarry School Days (1902)
Fifteen short sketches combine in this affectionate reflection on childhood at the time of Confederation in Ontario, Canada. Connor's wry and astute observations are also an important historical reflection of life in early Canada.
The Sky Pilot, A Tale of the Foothills (1899)
The story, which sold more than 1 million copies when it was first published a century ago, is set western Canada in the late 1890s, a rugged and rocky terrain like Colorado and Montana, east of the Rocky Mountains. It is about the men and women of Foothill Country who found refuge in the remote valleys where they could forget and be forgotten. It is a tale of love and faith, about human spirit and triumph.
The Sky Pilot In No Man's Land (1919)
As in his earlier Sky Pilot tale, this story involves humanity, heroism and tenderness. Young preacher Barry Dunbar joins as padre at the start of war but spends much of his time chastising soldiers for swearing and drinking. His unpopularity is redeemed, however, after his father advises him to treat the men as friends and share his knowledge of God. This allows him to become a hero himself.
To Him That Hath, A Novel of the West of Today (1921)
This is a story of heroes and trauma, of war and peace, of love and loss after World War I...
"Maitland drove homeward through the mellow autumn evening with a warmer, kindlier glow in his heart than he had known through all the dreary weeks that had followed his return from the war. For the war had wrought desolation for him in a home once rich in the things that make life worth while, by taking from it his mother, whose rare soul qualities had won and held through her life the love, the passionate, adoring love of her sons, and his twin brother, the comrade, chum, friend of all his days, with whose life his own had grown into a complete and ideal unity. The war had left his life otherwise bruised and maimed in ways known only to himself... "
The Prospector (1904)
This is an old tale of east meets west in Canada a century ago. It is November, a good day to be alive. The University of Toronto football team are playing McGill and love is in the air. Meanwhile the Superintendent has come from the West on his spring round-up.
Genre: Literary Fiction
The Foreigner (1909)
Ukrainian immigrant Kalman Kalmar comes of age in turn-of-the century Saskatchewan.
The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail (1914)
It is the 1800s in southern Alberta and the Canadian Royal Mounted Police must confront the threat of a native uprising, and must rely on a dangerous half breed and a retired trooper to quell the unrest. This well written and well plotted novel is a western must-read.
About The Author
Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon (aka Ralph Connor) was born in 1860 in Glengarry County Ontario, the son of a Free Church of Scotland Missionary in Upper Canada. The family moved from Glengarry to Harrington, Oxford County, Ontario when he was a youth. Like many other young men in the area, Gordon went to Toronto to study at University of Toronto. He then attended Knox College and graduated with distinction in 1886. Like his father, he was a Church leader, first in the Presbyterian and later the United churches in. Gordon was also at one time a master at Upper Canada College. For more than half of his life, he made Winnipeg his home. He sold more than five million copies of his works in his lifetime. He died in 1937, Canada's best-selling author. His novels describe life in the Rocky Mountain mines and lumber camps of eastern Ontario, and documented Canadian life in the early years of the 20th century.
Other Books By The Same Author
Glengarry School Days (1902)
Fifteen short sketches combine in this affectionate reflection on childhood at the time of Confederation in Ontario, Canada. Connor's wry and astute observations are also an important historical reflection of life in early Canada.
The Sky Pilot, A Tale of the Foothills (1899)
The story, which sold more than 1 million copies when it was first published a century ago, is set western Canada in the late 1890s, a rugged and rocky terrain like Colorado and Montana, east of the Rocky Mountains. It is about the men and women of Foothill Country who found refuge in the remote valleys where they could forget and be forgotten. It is a tale of love and faith, about human spirit and triumph.
The Sky Pilot In No Man's Land (1919)
As in his earlier Sky Pilot tale, this story involves humanity, heroism and tenderness. Young preacher Barry Dunbar joins as padre at the start of war but spends much of his time chastising soldiers for swearing and drinking. His unpopularity is redeemed, however, after his father advises him to treat the men as friends and share his knowledge of God. This allows him to become a hero himself.
To Him That Hath, A Novel of the West of Today (1921)
This is a story of heroes and trauma, of war and peace, of love and loss after World War I...
"Maitland drove homeward through the mellow autumn evening with a warmer, kindlier glow in his heart than he had known through all the dreary weeks that had followed his return from the war. For the war had wrought desolation for him in a home once rich in the things that make life worth while, by taking from it his mother, whose rare soul qualities had won and held through her life the love, the passionate, adoring love of her sons, and his twin brother, the comrade, chum, friend of all his days, with whose life his own had grown into a complete and ideal unity. The war had left his life otherwise bruised and maimed in ways known only to himself... "
The Prospector (1904)
This is an old tale of east meets west in Canada a century ago. It is November, a good day to be alive. The University of Toronto football team are playing McGill and love is in the air. Meanwhile the Superintendent has come from the West on his spring round-up.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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