A Sudden Country

His life turned upside down by the deaths of his children from smallpox and desertion of his Nez Perc�wife, Hudson's Bay Company trader James MacLaren joins a group of settlers headed west to Oregon in 1847 and encounters Lucy Mitchell, the wife of his employer, a woman who helps him confront his past, present, and future. A first novel. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.