Historical, Literary 

"Wesley Case, the son of a wealth lumber baron, turns from his father's ambitions for him and sets out to make his own way in the world, far from Ottawa and the life his father expects for him in politics. After a brief military career, Wesley serves a short term with the North-West Mounted Police in the Cypress Hills, where he comes to know the wilful, unpredictable Major James Walsh, whose sympathies with the Sioux are destined for tragedy. Case leaves Fort Walsh for the simpler life of a rancher, and he journeys south to Fort Benton, Montana. But all is not tranquil. He soon finds himself party to the conflict with native tribes that creates escalating tensions between Canada and the U.S. ... Along the way, Case will cross paths with Confederate conspirators, a sinister member of the first Canadian secret service, Fenian revolutionaries, and ultimately he will come face to face with the enigmatic Sioux Chief Sitting Bull"--Résumé de l'éditeur.  

"The final installment in his nationally best-selling trilogy, Guy Vanderhaeghe's A Good Man returns to the nineteenth-century Canadian and American West to explore the waning days of one of the world's last great frontiers. Wesley Case, a former soldier and the son of a Canadian lumber baron, sets out into the untamed borderlands between Canada and the United States to escape a dark secret from his past. He settles in Montana where he hopes to buy a cattle ranch, and where he begins work as a liaison between the American and Canadian military in an effort to contain the Native Americans' anger in the wake of the Civil War. Amid the brutal violence that erupts between the Sioux warriors and U.S. forces, Case's plan for a quiet ranch life is further compromised by an unexpected dilemma: he falls in love with the beautiful, outspoken, and recently widowed Ada Torr. It's a budding romance that soon inflames the jealousy of Ada's deeply disturbed admirer, Michael Dunne. When the American government unleashes its final assault on the Indians, Dunne commences his own vicious plan for vengeance in one last feverish attempt to claim Ada as his own"- 

Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Guy Vanderhaeghe
ISBN: 9780771087400 0771087403 9780771086083 0771086083
OCLC Number: 1131455028
Description: 464 pages ; 24 cm
Responsibility: Guy Vanderhaeghe.