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Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freeman
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'Mrs. Mike' is a love story, a true story; the story of Katherine Mary O’Fallon, a sixteen year-old Irish girl from Boston, and Sergeant Mike Flannigan of the Canadian Mounted Police who meet at her uncle’s ranch in Alberta, Canada where she is sent to recover from pleurisy. They meet, they court, they marry and, following Mike’s orders, move to Hudson’s Hope far into the interior of Alberta.
But it is more than a love story between two people: it is also a love story of the land and animals, of the beavers and the ice, the northern lights and the fires, of whooping cough and whiskey running. It is a love story of the First Peoples and their struggles, the immigrants and their hopes and all the people who came and went through Mike and Kathy’s lives.
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-This was offered free about a year ago, which is when I picked it up. This is an old favorite and I highly recommend it. (You will possibly need tissues handy.)
--Including it in the historical fiction because while it is based on a true story, much like Laura Ingalls Wilder, James Herriot, and Scott O'Dell, there's a lot of embellishment so it's not exactly non-fiction.