The Promise: A Tale of the Great Northwest

by James B. Hendryx

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Genres: Westerns

430 pages, Paperback

First published March 24, 2011

Reviews

[Pat ORourke · Rating 4 out of 5]

Didn’t know what to expect. This book was written 110 years ago. It read like a Jack London or Zane Grey story. It was interesting and kept my attention. However, it was predictable. I enjoyed reading it at our cabin in Northern Michigan. In fact in Leelanau County the home of the author. I plan to read more f his books.

[Ron · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is yet another logging camp novel, set in the Canadian woods somewhere north of Winnipeg. The story is a familiar one of a young man who is toughened by the strenuous life and grows into his manhood, thereby winning the respect of others and the love of a sweetheart.

Bill Carmody is the son of a wealthy Wall Street financier who expects the young man to learn the banking business. But Bill has no enthusiasm for it. Disowned by his father, he heads west, where his plans are literally derailed in a train accident. In the wreckage, he comes to the aid of a passenger who turns out to be a lumberman, H. D. Appleton, who senses greatness in the young man and gives him a job as a logger. . .

Read my review at my blog.