Goodreads asked Katherine Govier:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Katherine Govier I wrote this book because I’ve long been fascinated by characters around Banff. A century ago it was flooded with runaway aristocrats, wildlife artists, coal miners, remittance men, Quakers, cowboys and women escaping the parlor. They worked with the native people, made trails, maps, a town, and made history – but they didn’t make it into the history books. To me it was a novel begging to be written.

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