Ralph Connor (1860–1937)

I abandoned this book because I was over halfway through and the young gentleman called Cameron was nowhere near becoming a corporal in the North West Mounted Police. It took him so long to get to Canada in the first place that I thought I'd somehow picked up the wrong book. The story itself is told in an acceptable manner, but I'm getting impatient and need to move on.

So many books. So little time. This isn't a book that I want to spend that time on. I made it about 100 pages in, and I only made it that far because it was a book that belonged to Grandpa Pete and I was curious what he may have read as a young man. But it is just awful. A mama's boy rugby player goes to Western Canada to be a missionary -- it couldn't be more boring and the writing style couldn't be more tedious.

Mildly interesting as being a western adventure set in western Canada near Calgary rather than in the US West. The time period seems to be the eve of the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, and it reaches to the rebellion.

Hardback