Four Alberta ranches frame this story: three small quarter sections in Yankee Valley and the vast Bar Q, whose two hundred thousand acres reach into the foothills and onto the Indian Reserve. Its brutal owner treats people like stock, and Nettie, a young girl in his household, must survive him.
A hard-edged prairie novel by the writer who earlier published as Onoto Watanna; it contains scenes of sexual violence. Download the free EPUB.