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Alton of Somasco

A Romance of the Great Northwest

by Harold Bindloss

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Snow and a stubborn pack pony introduce Henry Alton, a rancher whose reputation rests on hard work and keeping his word. In a British Columbian settlement, he turns down a profitable hauling job from the mining businessman Hallam because he has already promised to carry another man's supplies. His care over a neighbour's flour order gives the opening its measure of character: small transactions reveal who can be trusted in a community of ranchers, miners and prospectors.

Harold Bindloss places this frontier romance among forest trails, loaded pack animals and demanding river travel. A later passage follows Alton and Charles Seaforth as they discover their canoe has disappeared and divide their efforts, with Alton pressing north under a heavy load. Readers interested in Canadian wilderness fiction will find practical outdoor detail alongside questions of loyalty, business pressure and endurance. The landscape shapes both the work people do and the risks they face.

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Harold Bindloss

Harold Bindloss (1866–1945) was born in Wavertree, Liverpool, and came to writing late. He spent years at sea and in the colonies, working as a sailor, a dock worker, a planter, and a farmer in Canada, until malaria broke his health and sent him home in 1896.

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