The Great Lone Land

In 1869, the newspapers are so peaceful they resort to prize pigs—until a small, snowbound settlement on the Red River rises in insurrection. For William Francis Butler, that distant cloud is a summons to adventure.

Butler sets out for the North-West of America, where a colony founded in the wilderness lies hundreds of miles from the nearest routes to the Atlantic, hemmed in by ice, river rapids and fierce seasons. Its inhabitants are already being described, depending on whom you ask, as Indians, Scots or French; now political unrest draws the remote settlement into a wider struggle. Butler, eager for a life beyond the ordinary, has his own obstacle: a military commission is offered only if he can raise £1,100. What waits for him beyond the quiet headlines—and can he find his way there?

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