Harold Bindloss
1) Long Odds
Long Odds is another entry in the list of classic Westerns produced by an unlikely master of the genre, British-born Harold Bindloss. If you like your action-adventure served up with plenty of romance, gripping plot twists, honorable but taciturn heroes, and heartrending descriptions of the vast prairie, you've come to the right place.
Lieutenant Richard Brandon is renowned for his talent as a civil engineer, and he applies an engineer's orderliness to his every aspect of his life. So when he crosses paths with the decidedly unconventional Clare Kenwardine and finds himself developing strong feelings for her, he begins to question everything he believes in.
Life on the Canadian prairie can be trying under the very best of circumstances. When the odds are stacked against you, it takes remarkable inner strength and fortitude to make it work. Those are lessons that long-time railroad man Festing must learn the hard way when he decides to make a career change and take up farming.
Told by an older man reminiscing about his youthful exploits and successes, Lorimer of the Northwest recounts Ralph Lorimer's emigration to Canada, his marriage to the beautiful Grace Carrington, and his remarkable rise to the top of the agriculture sector.
Though British by birth, Harold Bindloss spent much of his early adulthood wandering the world, performing odd jobs. He found himself particularly enchanted by the Canadian Northwest and went on to set dozens of Western novels in the region. In The Greater Power, logger Derrick Nasmyth finds himself in an unexpected quandary.
Although he is well liked in his community, many members of which remember him fondly as a young man, Richard Blake's stint in the Canadian military is shrouded in a miasma of mystery — and according to some, dishonor. Will he be able to restore his good name and win back the good graces of his friends and loved ones?
Though he lived much of his life in England, author Harold Bindloss never forgot the Canadian prairies where he spent some time as a farmer in his early adulthood. Weakened by disease later in life, Bindloss took up writing, and the vast majority of his westerns were set in the rolling plains of Canada. Winston of the Prairie is one of Bindloss' most acclaimed novels, and it's sure to please fans of classic westerns.
Fans of classic westerns will appreciate this unique take on the genre. Set in the wide open prairies of western Canada, A Damaged Reputation focuses on a rancher who finds himself stuck in a perilously tricky situation. Will Brooke be able to restore his once-unimpeachable standing before it's too late?
Like many of Harold Bindloss' novels, The Gold Trail unfolds against the backdrop of western Canada in its early pioneer years. In the midst of preparing a new railroad route, Clarence Weston and his fellow laborers face challenge after challenge. When romance enters the picture, it's almost too much for him to handle.
The remarkably prolific author Harold Bindloss was born and died in England, but he spent many of the intervening years working odd jobs in exotic locales around the world as a means of sating his unquenchable wanderlust. His novel Thurston of Orchard Valley introduces readers to the gruff, hardscrabble Geoffrey Thurston, who, like a long line of his forebears, works the land. When an unlikely romance blossoms, Thurston's routine existence
...Although he was born in and spent much of his life in England, Harold Bindloss spent some of his formative early adulthood in Western Canada. His memories of this time served as creative fodder when Bindloss turned to fiction writing later in life. Wyndham's Pal serves up classic Bindloss at his best, with plenty of action, adventure, and romance.
Set amidst the vast forests of Canada, this outdoor-oriented action-adventure novel pits a hearty young Canadian against a timid, sheltered Englishman in a battle of brain and brawn. Saucy side character Bella Crestwick adds some oomph to the proceedings.
13) Northwest!
Though he was born in England and spent much of his life in that country, author Harold Bindloss is remembered as one of the foremost chroniclers of the pioneer era in Canada. The novel Northwest! follows protagonist Jimmy Leyland as he attempts to find his fortune -- and perhaps romance -- in the Canadian countryside.
Out of his element as a house guest staying in a genteel mansion thousands of miles away from his ancestral homeland of Western Canada, Leland forms an uneasy truce with his unscrupulous host, Jimmy Denham, and finds romance when he least expects it.
Can't get enough of rip-roaring tales from the classic era of action-adventure? Tear into Harold Bindloss' The Coast of Adventure for a stiff dose of everything that makes this genre so enticing: exotic locales, stormy love affairs, gorgeous landscapes, and lots of pulse-pounding excitement.
Curmudgeonly Tom Cartwright is unrepentant about the fact that he married his wife Clara for her money, and he barely tolerates her grown children. But when her younger daughter Barbara flouts convention and strikes out on her own, Cartwright's comfortable existence is threatened, and he's determined to set things right at any cost.
17) The Intriguers
Though he was born and died in England, many of the intervening years of Harold Bindloss' life were spent traveling the world and living in primitive pioneer communities in North America, experiences that would inform his later career as a novelist. In The Intriguers, a pair of army officers get separated from the rest of their regiment during an expedition to the Northwest — and find themselves embroiled in a nefarious extortion scheme.
...Andrew Allinson has sworn a solemn vow to his long-time friend Tom Olcott that he will look out for Tom's wife while Tom is working overseas in West Africa. But making good on his promise turns out to be a bit more complicated than Andrew had expected.
George Lansing has been summoned to England by Sylvia Marston, the widow of George's recently deceased cousin, Dick. The couple's parcel of prairie land in Canada is sitting unused, and in order to fetch the best price on the market, it needs to be worked by a competent farm operator. Against the advice of his friends, George volunteers for the thankless position. Will he be able to make it work?
A pair of families that reside in close proximity to one another in the English countryside may diverge in their values and beliefs, but they wind up forming a close alliance against all odds. The Askews are humble but ambitious farmers, while the Osborns are once-genteel folks who seem determined to squander what's left of their family fortune. What could possibly bring them together?