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    Black Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks
    Black Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks
    Black Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks
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    Black Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks

    By Ralph Connor

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    This literary work is set in a mining and lumberjack boom town in the 1880s. The story focuses on a new minister who brings the fight for men's souls to the doors of the seedy saloons and dastardly drug pushers. Plots, conflicts, and double-crosses abound in the never-ending battle played out in the lives of several characters.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateNov 21, 2022
    ISBN8596547414711
    Black Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks
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    Ralph Connor

    Ralph Connor was the pseudonym of best-selling Canadian writer Charles William Gordon. Born in a small town in Ontario, Gordon’s interest in writing was ignited as a student first at the University of Toronto and then at Knox College, where he completed his divinity studies. Gordon went on to become a reverend in both the Presbyterian and United churches, and used the pen name Ralph Connor to keep his literary activities separate from his religious vocation. Over the course of his career, Connor published more than forty works, including the wildly popular The Sky Pilot, which sold more than one million copies, Glengarry School Days, The Man from Glengarry, and Postscript to Adventure, a posthumous autobiography published after Gordon’s death in 1937.

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