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The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail
• Two of author Ralph Connor’s books are in this Kindle edition: The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail & The Prospector
The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail
It is the 1800s in Alberta and the Canadian Royal Mounted Police must confront the threat of a native uprising by counting on a dangerous half breed and an ex-trooper. This well-plotted novel is a western must-read.
The Prospector (1904)
This is a tale of east meets west. 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. New settlements in anticipation of and following the new Railway, old settlements in British Columbia valleys, formed twenty years ago and forgotten, ranches of the foot-hill country, the mining camps to the north and south of the new line—these were beginning to fire the imagination of older Canada.
About The Author
Canadian author Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon (1980-1937) was born in Ontario, and wrote under the name Ralph Connor. He attended the University of Toronto and graduated with distinction. He followed in his father’s footsteps and became a Church leader and he sold more than five million books before his death.
Other Books By The Same Author
The Sky Pilot, A Tale of the Foothills (1899)
The Man From Glengarry (1901)
Glengarry School Days (1902)
The Major (1917)
The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail
It is the 1800s in Alberta and the Canadian Royal Mounted Police must confront the threat of a native uprising by counting on a dangerous half breed and an ex-trooper. This well-plotted novel is a western must-read.
The Prospector (1904)
This is a tale of east meets west. 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. New settlements in anticipation of and following the new Railway, old settlements in British Columbia valleys, formed twenty years ago and forgotten, ranches of the foot-hill country, the mining camps to the north and south of the new line—these were beginning to fire the imagination of older Canada.
About The Author
Canadian author Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon (1980-1937) was born in Ontario, and wrote under the name Ralph Connor. He attended the University of Toronto and graduated with distinction. He followed in his father’s footsteps and became a Church leader and he sold more than five million books before his death.
Other Books By The Same Author
The Sky Pilot, A Tale of the Foothills (1899)
The Man From Glengarry (1901)
Glengarry School Days (1902)
The Major (1917)
- GenresWesterns
250 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1914
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About the author
Ralph Connor
125 books7 followersUniversity of Toronto educated Charles William Gordon, ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1890. Under the pseudonym Ralph Connor, he published more than thirty novels, including
The Man from Glengarry
(1901) and
Glengarry School Days
(1902). These novels made him an internationally best-selling author.
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May 29, 2013
Gordon Bennett, what a mishmash. This is possibly a little better than the "standard western" of lore - there is a female character with actual personality! - but with the clichéd portrayal of the Native characters (with of course the status of "good" or "bad" bestowed according to their friendliness to whites), plus the way the author kept moaning about how brave the lady was to let her husband go around trying to arrest the warmongering Native chief at risk of his own life, and how women always have to Sacrifice their menfolk thusly for the Advancement of Civilization...
...yeah. I haven't got an original publication date, but I will swear I smell World War I all over the writing. And then after the third very contrived time the warmongering chief slipped out from right under the white heroes' noses, and the book only a third done, I just gave up. :P Shame, because the characters are interesting and distinctive and likable, as long as the writer keeps his generalizations about Human Nature out of the picture.
...yeah. I haven't got an original publication date, but I will swear I smell World War I all over the writing. And then after the third very contrived time the warmongering chief slipped out from right under the white heroes' noses, and the book only a third done, I just gave up. :P Shame, because the characters are interesting and distinctive and likable, as long as the writer keeps his generalizations about Human Nature out of the picture.
June 21, 2024
After adjusting my mindset to compensate for changes in attitudes of the past 100 years or so, I found this to be a great piece of historical Canadian fiction. Well written and received.
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March 27, 2013
This book documents that every trope and stereotype of the Western Genre were firmly in place as of 1914, when this volume was published. I am sure that Zane Grey was an inspiration for this much inferior author, and that Louis Lamour kept a copy always at hand as a source book and inspiration.
Expect no surprises, although you may be taken aback by the crude caricatures that populate the book; the whites are noble and civilized, the Indians are primitive and devious. The one virtue the Indians have is that they understand gratitude, which they express through gesture and Um-Gawa pigeonspeak.
But the book is well written, the landscapes are three dimensional even where the characters are flat, and these cartoonish characters are caught up in an excitingly-plotted novel that is simply vital with the best traditions of melodrama.
Expect no surprises, although you may be taken aback by the crude caricatures that populate the book; the whites are noble and civilized, the Indians are primitive and devious. The one virtue the Indians have is that they understand gratitude, which they express through gesture and Um-Gawa pigeonspeak.
But the book is well written, the landscapes are three dimensional even where the characters are flat, and these cartoonish characters are caught up in an excitingly-plotted novel that is simply vital with the best traditions of melodrama.
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November 20, 2017This is Canadian Historical Fiction. It is about a rebellion that almost happened, after the Native Americans had been put on the reservations. Authorities were concerned about, them claiming back their land, and the 2nd run of battles between Americans and them over the land. I liked the book.
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