![]() ![]() Convinced that he is the key to her family’s safe passage, she persuades her husband to employ him. Lucy, a remarried widow, careful mother, and reluctant emigrant, is drawn at once to the self-possessed MacLaren. But an act of secret vengeance changes his course, introducing him to a different wife and Lucy Mitchell, journeying westward with her family. In the grip of a profound sorrow, MacLaren, whose home once spanned a continent, sets out to find his wife. Yet his life is overturned in the winter of 1846, when his Nez Perce wife deserts him and his children die of smallpox. ![]() James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious Hudson’s Bay Company trader, has renounced his aspirations for a quiet family life in the Bitterroot wilderness. A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption. ![]()
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