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• Two of Ralph Connor’s westerns are in this Kindle edition: The Sky Pilot, A Tale of the Foothills (1899) & The Sky Pilot In No Man’s Land (1819)The Sky Pilot, A Tale of the Foothills (1899)The backdrop to Connor's story is western Canada in the late 1890. It is the story of Foothill Country, where a group of settlers found refuge in valleys. It is also a story about faith, the human spirit and joy in the midst of adversity. Connor's bestseller sold more than one million copies during its first print run.The Sky Pilot In No Man’s Land (1819)The Sky Pilot is welcomed by both ranchmen and of soldiers. He is a leader, not just in life but in love. Called "a fascinating and arresting novel" by the Philadelphia Ledger.About The AuthorRev. Dr. Charles William Gordon (1980-1937) was born in 1860 in Ontario, Canada and wrote under the name Ralph Connor. He attended the University of Toronto and graduated with distinction at Knox College. He followed in his father’s footsteps and became a leader in both the Presbyterian and United churches, and later became Upper Canada College’s master. He sold more than five million books before his death, making him Canada’s best-selling author.

“Ralph Connor is a great find.” -The Critic “Every chapter is an act of drama which moves steadily onward to its predestined climax – he possesses all the power of Bret Harte.” -Catholic Standard and Times “The same qualities of insight, descriptive skill, pathos and humor, are mingled here as in ‘Black Rock.’” – Boston Watchman “Not since ‘The Bonnie Brier Bush’ has a writer appeared with so strong and masterful a hand in dealing with the rigor and pathos of life.” -Chicago Herald “Ralph Connor has something of his own. He has, for one thing, a new subject. For another he has a style that fits it. Books more bracing in tone than these I have never read. They are full of life and full of the best kind of life.” -The British Weekly “Ralph Connor’s ‘Black Rock’ was good, but ‘The Sky Pilot’ is better. The matter which he gives us is real life; virile, true, tender, humorous, pathetic, spiritual, wholesome. His Bret Harte manner in describing this life has at times a distinct and refreshing quality of literary workmanship; his style, fresh, crisp and terse, accords with the Western life, which he well understands. Henceforth the foot-hills of the Canadian Rockies will probably be associated I many a mind with the name of Ralph Connor.” -The Outlook “If heroism in the cause of Christ awoke as responsive a thrill in the hearts of this generation as do deeds of valor in the field of blood, the person who writes under the nom de plume of Ralph Connor wold be as popular today as Rudyard Kipling.” -Chicago Times-Herald “Ralph Connor uses a pen dipped in the very colors and tones of the canyon and the sunlit hills, his grasp of the characteristic slang is free and graphic, and his knowledge of the primitive vices and virtues is obviously no mere book-lore. Such a tale is sure to find numerous readers, for it touches just those chords which vibrate luxuriously in the popular heart.” -Boston Transcript

This story is of the people of the Foothill Country; of those men of adventurous spirit, who left homes of comfort, often of luxury, because of the stirring in them to be and to do some worthy thing; and of those others who, outcast from their kind, sought to find in these valleys, remote and lonely, a spot where they could forget and be forgotten. The story is, too, of how a man with vision beyond the waving skyline came to them with firm purpose to play the brother's part, and by sheer love of them and by faith in them, win them to believe that life is priceless, and that it is good to be a man.

This story is of the people of the Foothill Country; of those men of adventurous spirit, who left homes of comfort, often of luxury, because of the stirring in them to be and to do some worthy thing; and of those others who, outcast from their kind, sought to find in these valleys, remote and lonely, a spot where they could forget and be forgotten. The story is, too, of how a man with vision beyond the waving skyline came to them with firm purpose to play the brother's part, and by sheer love of them and by faith in them, win them to believe that life is priceless, and that it is good to be a man. (Goodreads)

1900. This story is of the people of the Foothill Country; of those men of adventurous spirit, who left homes of comfort, often of luxury, because of the stirring in them to be and to do some worthy thing; and of those others who, outcast from their kind, sought to find in these valleys, remote and lonely, a spot where they could forget and be forgotten. The story is, too, of how a man with vision beyond the waving skyline came to them with firm purpose to play the brother's part, and by sheer love of them and by faith in them, win them to believe that life is priceless, and that it is good to be a man. Tale of California with 6 illustrated plates by Louis Rhead.

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