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Tackling Bindloss
I love exploring the vast public domain! Finding new authors is a treat! I should say new 'to me.' Being able to visit books that my grandparents may have read, books that you won't find in a public library anymore, has been a lot of fun.
But some authors were so prolific that one doesn't know where to start. One such was Harold Bindloss. Bindloss wrote about people exploring and expanding the great Canadian frontier. His novels were romantic in the old-school sense: stoic heroes constrained by duty, determined heroines struggling against all odds. But his true gift is in the vivid depiction of the settings. Wild Canada comes to life under Bindloss' pen. Like, you can almost hear Gordon Lightfoot playing in the background.
So I've tried to sort Bindloss' many works. The categories might serve as bookshelves on your reader, or perhaps as groupings for omnibus volumes. Anyway, here goes:
Bindloss 1 - The Prairie
1 - The Impostor
2 - Masters of the Wheat-Lands
3 - A Prairie Courtship
4 - The Cattle-Baron's Daughter
5 - The Mistress of Bonaventure
6 - Harding of Allenwood
Bindloss 2 - The Forest
1 - Alton of Somasco
2 - The Greater Power
3 - Vane of the Timberlands
4 - Carmen's Messenger
5 - Northwest!
6 - The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound
Bindloss 3 - Prospectors
1 - Delilah of the Snows
2 - The Gold Trail
3 - The Wilderness Mine
4 - The Lure of the North
Bindloss 4 - Engineers
1 - The Girl from Keller's
2 - Thurston of Orchard Valley
3 - Lister's Great Adventure
4 - Brandon of the Engineers
Bindloss 5 - émigrés
1 - Lorimer of the Northwest
2 - Ranching for Sylvia
3 - Partners of the Out-Trail
4 - Johnstone of the Border
5 - By Right of Purchase
Bindloss 6 - Honour-Bound
1 - Blake's Burden
2 - Winston of the Prairie
3 - Prescott of Saskatchewan
4 - The Long Portage
5 - A Damaged Reputation
Bindloss 7 - The Seas
1 - In the Misty Seas
2 - For Jacinta
3 - Thrice Armed
4 - The Secret of the Reef
5 - Wyndham's Pal
6 - The Coast of Adventure
Bindloss 8 - Distant Lands
1 - The Buccaneer Farmer
2 - The Dust of Conflict
3 - Long Odds
4 - Kit Musgrave's Luck
5 - For the Allinson Honor
6 - The League of the Leopard
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