Black Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks

This volume contains Ralph Connor's novel (published in 1900), "Black Rock - A Tale of the Selkirks". Set in a mining and lumberjack boom town in the 1880s, this literary work centres on a new minister who brings the fight for men's souls to the doors of the seedy saloons and dastardly drug pushers. Plots, fights, and double-crosses abound in the back-and-forth battle played out in the lives of several well-developed characters. Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon (1860 - 1937) was a Canadian a...