Author: Guy Vanderhaeghe

Description: “A feast of a book” from “one of North America’s greatest writers” — Annie Proulx

Two Englishmen search the American West for their missionary brother — and are joined by a disparate group of journeyers along the way. 

In the late nineteenth century, Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt are sent by their father to find their brother Simon, a missionary who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. In the outreaches of the Montana frontier, the brothers hire a guide—a half Blackfoot, half Scot named Jerry Potts—to lead them further north into the area where Simon was last seen. As the party heads out, it grows to include a journalist, a saloonkeeper, a Civil War veteran in search of love, and a young woman bent on revenge.