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The landscape of the prairies and the people who are settling it are, indeed, so full of promise. Prescott, of course, is the hero, a "Canadian" who is honorable, resourceful, and unpretentious--in contrast to most of the soft or shifty or morally suspect English characters.

The landscape of the prairies and the people who are settling it are, indeed, so full of promise. Prescott, of course, is the hero, a "Canadian" who is honorable, resourceful, and unpretentious--in contrast to most of the soft or shifty or morally suspect English characters.

The landscape of the prairies and the people who are settling it are, indeed, so full of promise. Prescott, of course, is the hero, a "Canadian" who is honorable, resourceful, and unpretentious--in contrast to most of the soft or shifty or morally suspect English characters... Read Full Overview

The story of the imitation of man. After all, everyone has a person to whom you want to strive. There is a murder and a chase in Western Canada a few days before the advent of cars or even telegraph lines in much of the country. Great attention to the landscape. The author does... Read Full Overview

The air was cooling down toward evening at Sebastian, where an unpicturesque collection of wooden houses stand upon a branch line on the Canadian prairie. The place is not attractive during the earlier portion of the short northern summer, when for the greater part of every week... Read Full Overview

Reproduction of the original: Prescott of Saskatchewan by Harold Bindloss

Harold Bindloss was a 20th century British novelist whose most famous works depict the frontier in the Northwest and Canada, making him a popular writer not only among the British but Americans who loved his Western stories

I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I remain as ridiculous in their eyes as before. But now I do not resent it, they are all dear to me now, even when they laugh at me - and, indeed, it is just then that they are... Read Full Overview

The air was cooling down toward evening at Sebastian, where an unpicturesque collection of wooden houses stand upon a branch line on the Canadian prairie. The place is not attractive during the earlier portion of the short northern summer, when for the greater part of every week... Read Full Overview