The Preacher of Cedar Mountain: A Tale of the Open Country

A boy loses his father and gains a ghost. Little Jim Hartigan grows up in Links, Ontario, a rough little town of sawmills and铁道工人, where the smell of timber hangs in the air and the Irish blood runs thick in the veins of those who stayed. His mother runs the hotel with a firm hand and a harder heart, guarding her son from the very frontier that shaped him. But Jim has his father's wildness in him: he cannot stop seeking the open country, the freedom of horses, the dangerous thrill of riding what should not be ridden. When consequence finds him, it is not the last lesson this land will teach. Seton, the founder of the Boy Scouts and one of nature writing's originals, traces the making of a man from boyhood to the pulpit. This is frontier America as lived memory, blood and belief, the price of choosing who you become when the world tells you what you ought to be.