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The awesome terrain of the Rocky Mountains is the setting for this extraordinary novel about a heroic man who boldly defies destiny. Tay John, a messianic halfbreed, is fated to lead his people to their Promised Land. In a rebellious act of will, he turns to the mountains to seek his own truths.
This richly populated novel vividly depicts the exotic and rootless people who wound their way to the Canadian Northwest. It is a powerful modern legend that ranges over all aspects of the human heart and mind, incorporating passion and hatred, tragedy and triumph.
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About the Author
Howard O’Hagan was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1902. As a young man, he worked on survey parties in the Rockies before moving to Montreal to study law at McGill University. After practising law for a brief time, he returned to western Canada to work as a tour guide in Banff National Park.
Stephen Leacock helped O’Hagan obtain employment with the Canadian Pacific Railroad recruiting farm labourers from England. He also worked for the Canadian National Railroad in Jasper and in New York and for the Argentine National Railroad in Buenos Aires.
While living in San Francisco in the thirties, O’Hagan began a series of sketches of guides, mountain men, and trappers that formed the background for his novelTay John (1939), which he completed on an island in Howe Sound on the British Columbia coast.
One of the first western Canadians to make a major contribution to Canadian literature, O’Hagan found occasional work in the fifties as a journalist in Victoria, British Columbia, and as a labourer on the waterfront and on survey crews.
In 1963 O’Hagan moved to Sicily, where he lived for more than a decade. He returned to Victoria in 1974.
Howard O’Hagan died in Victoria in 1982.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. John William Beatty (cover) (illustrator). In the Afterword to these 272 pages, Michael Ondaatje, calls O'Hagan's important telling of this tale of the early west - mythic realism. He sets the table for Kroetsch et al. Read more about : white man, whisky smugglers, pack-horse, Tzalas, Tatlow, Swamas, Robson's Peak, Mr. Dobble, and Red Rorty. The year is 1880 and the place is the area of the Yellowhead Pass. (Or Tete Jaune, if you prefer.) UNillustrated. Cond : Paper wrapper is off-white with black lettering. Mountain graphic on cover helps one imagine the Athabaska Valley. Colours bright, binding tight. Name of p/o on first page. Light general wear. Excellent reading copy. Quote (p. 35) : " When the people had mourned over her for three days, on the fourth day rhey took her body, wrapped in burial clothes of cedar bark and goat's-wool, and buried it in the soft earth at the foot of a slide. They left food by ._._._. . " Size: 12mo. Seller Inventory # 011522