The Settler

A heron wheels over the Canadian prairie as Carter hears a mower in his sick neighbor’s hay slough—and realizes someone is taking the grass Morrill may need to survive the winter.

Across the Fertile Belt, lonely farmsteads stand in rich grassland, but boom-time mortgages and crowded claims have turned abundance into a source of conflict. When Carter finds Hines cutting hay Morrill has long relied on, he blocks the mower with his oxen and makes clear that illness has not made his neighbor’s claim—or his needs—disappear. Then Morrill’s sister Helen writes that she is coming from the East to keep house for him, arriving in a settlement where a cabin is rough shelter and every friendship may matter. Can Carter protect the slough, and what will Helen find when she reaches the prairie?

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