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At the Mountain’s Edge by Genevieve Graham

June 8, 2019March 10, 2019

At the Mountain's Edge (2019, Simon & Schuster Canada*), is a divergence from Ms. Graham's three previous novels, for she leaves the East Coast setting and heads north-west to the Yukon's frontier gold fields of the late 19th century.

Forty-Niner: The Extraordinary Gold Rush Odyssey of Joseph Goldsborough Bruff by Ken Lizzio

June 22, 2017May 17, 2017

While many North Americans are familiar with the term “Gold Rush of 1849”, they likely have a romantic idea of picturesque covered wagons slowly heading west over the prairie, of bearded miners panning for gold (as the cover depicts), and so on. The reality is quite different, as Forty-Niner: The Extraordinary Gold Rush Odyssey of Joseph Goldsborough Bruff by Ken Lizzio (2017, Countryman Press) informs us.… Continue reading