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The Inverted Pyramid
Bertrand W. Sinclair's The Inverted Pyramid, a best-seller when it was first published in 1924, appears now for the first time in a new edition. Writing in the period from 1908 onwards, Sinclair published over fifteen novels, some of which sold in the hundreds of thousands. In The Inverted Pyramid, which critics often cite as his most ambitious novel, he explores Canada's drift during WWI from a world of production to one based on finance, with all the attendant problems we are still enduring today. The novel offers a colourful account of British Columbia during this time through the history of two brothers - Rod and Grove Norquay - who belong to an old BC family. Grove, the older brother, takes the family's assets and invests them in finance - with disastrous consequences. As the world declines into a depression, Rod is forced to liquidate much of his family's timber holdings, but he remains hopeful that he and family, working with their own hands, will be able to make a good life for themselves - even as the rest of the world totters into the horrors of modernity.
Big Timber A Story Of The Northwest
The book "Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest" is thrilling and endearing. The story probably focuses on the struggles and exploits that people in the wood sector confront while delving into issues like resource depletion, logging industry dynamics, and the effects of human activity on the environment. Given the location, the book might offer an insight into the life of loggers, lumberjacks, and other people employed in the timber trade at a time when the sector was vital to the development of the local economy and culture. Adventure, romance, and possibly conflicts involving the exploitation of natural resources are all possible story points. All things considered, "Big Timber" probably gives readers a clear picture of the untamed landscapes of the Northwest and the people whose lives are entwined with the chances and difficulties brought about by the timber industry.
Poor Man's Rock
Bertrand William Sinclair was a Canadian novelist known for a series of westerns set in the United States, and also for a series of novels set in his home province of British Columbia.
Poor Man's Rock
The man's face darkened as he watched the distance lessen between the two craft. He reached under a locker and drew out a rifle. The girl's high pinkish color fled. She caught him by the arm. "Donald, Donald," she said breathlessly, "there's not to be any fighting." "Am I to let them lay alongside, hand you aboard, and then sail back to Maple Point, laughing at us for soft and simple fools?" he said quietly. "They can't take you from me so easily as that. There are only three of them aboard. I won't hurt them unless they force me to it, but I'm not so chicken-hearted as to let them have things all their own way. Sometimes a man must fight, Bessie.
Big Timber
After the death of her father leaves the city-bred Stella Benton goes to live with her brother Charlie in the harsh world of logging in British Columbia. The roughness of her surroundings proves a burden to Stella, and when Jack Fyfe, who loves her, asks her to marry him, she accepts even though she does not love him. Jack tries to win his bride's love, but to no avail. Finally, Stella goes to the city to try and forget her unhappy married life. She becomes infatuated with another man, but after she sees him at a cafe with a woman, she realizes his fickleness, and her love for Jack comes to the surface. Will she re-unite with Jack again? Will he accept her back?
Big Timber (a Story of the Northwest)
1916. With Frontispiece by Douglas Duer. From the best-selling Western author, Big Timber begins: The Imperial Limited lurched with a swing around the last hairpin curve of the Yale canyon. Ahead opened out a timbered valley, narrow on its floor, flanked with bold mountains, but nevertheless a valley, down which the rails lay straight and shining on an easy grade. The river that for a hundred miles had boiled and snarled parallel to the tracks, roaring through the granite sluice that cuts the Cascade Range, took a wider channel and a leisurely flow. The mad haste had fallen from it as haste falls from one who, with time to spare, sees his destination near at hand; and the turgid Fraser had time to spare, for now it was but threescore miles to tidewater. So the great river moved placidly-as an old man moves when all the headlong urge of youth is spent and his race near run.
Wild West
Rustlers had long been stealing from Montana cattle outfits when Robin Tyler, rep for the Bar M during the Block S roundup, saw Mark Steele, the Block S ramrod, hazing cows into a hidden canyon, and learned that Steele was the secret owner of the T Bar S iron, whose cows showed a miraculous increase each year. Trying to catch Steele red-handed, Robin tipped his hand. And Steele, a gunman, trapped Robin, who had never owned a gun, in a line cabin and decided to kill him. Robin pulled through that ruckus and went on the dodge. But he came back - this time with a smoking Colt - to start a wholesale cleanup on the Montana rangeland!
The Hidden Places
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American Fiction, 1901-1925
A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.
Poor Man's Rock
Bertrand William Sinclair was a popular 20th century Canadian author best known for his Western and frontier novels, depicting life not only in the U.S. but also in Canada. His books are still popular today.
