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An edition of A Good Man (2011)

A good man

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"Wesley Case, the son of a wealth lumber baron, turns from his father's ambitions for him and sets out to make his own way in the world, far from Ottawa and the life his father expects for him in politics. After a brief military career, Wesley serves a short term with the North-West Mounted Police in the Cypress Hills, where he comes to know the wilful, unpredictable Major James Walsh, whose sympathies with the Sioux are destined for tragedy. Case leaves Fort Walsh for the simpler life of a rancher, and he journeys south to Fort Benton, Montana. But all is not tranquil. He soon finds himself party to the conflict with native tribes that creates escalating tensions between Canada and the U.S. ... Along the way, Case will cross paths with Confederate conspirators, a sinister member of the first Canadian secret service, Fenian revolutionaries, and ultimately he will come face to face with the enigmatic Sioux Chief Sitting Bull"--Jacket.

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English
Pages
464

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Edition Notes

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Toronto

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
C813/.54
Library of Congress
PR9199.3.V384 G66 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
464 p. ;
Number of pages
464

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26449249M
Internet Archive
goodman0000vand
ISBN 10
0771087403, 0771086083
ISBN 13
9780771087400, 9780771086083
OCLC/WorldCat
712851422

Work Description

"The final installment in his nationally best-selling trilogy, Guy Vanderhaeghe's A Good Man returns to the nineteenth-century Canadian and American West to explore the waning days of one of the world's last great frontiers. Wesley Case, a former soldier and the son of a Canadian lumber baron, sets out into the untamed borderlands between Canada and the United States to escape a dark secret from his past. He settles in Montana where he hopes to buy a cattle ranch, and where he begins work as a liaison between the American and Canadian military in an effort to contain the Native Americans' anger in the wake of the Civil War. Amid the brutal violence that erupts between the Sioux warriors and U.S. forces, Case's plan for a quiet ranch life is further compromised by an unexpected dilemma: he falls in love with the beautiful, outspoken, and recently widowed Ada Torr. It's a budding romance that soon inflames the jealousy of Ada's deeply disturbed admirer, Michael Dunne. When the American government unleashes its final assault on the Indians, Dunne commences his own vicious plan for vengeance in one last feverish attempt to claim Ada as his own"--From front jacket flap.

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