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extraordinary tale of adventure, based on real people and actual historical events, William Stewart is unjustly banished from his Scottish homeland and indentured as a clerk to Canada's Hudson Bay Company.
Thana is a Canadian Indian girl whose peaceful life has been shattered when a rival tribe massacres her family and enslaves her.
The two meet and undertake an unprecedented trek into uncharted wilderness to search for gold, One of Houston's more entertaining books and recommended for readers interested in early Canadian history,

The following copied and pasted review is a spoiler,

"KIRKUS REVIEW

"By the author of Eagle Songand other tales of the Canadian North, a vigorous, supple, altogether involving wilderness adventure: a retelling of a true story about a young Scots Highlander who, in, was forced to serve in a Hudson Bay Company's trading settlement in America.
He will eventually live, travel with, and love the ""Copper Woman"" of the DÃnà Nation, who here shares the narration.


"Young William Stewart, exiled from the Highlands because of an unwise feat of arms, and indentured to the Hudson Bay Company because of another nasty trick of fate, arrives with the company to a fort west of Hudson Bay.
Then, thanks to a treaty, a scraggly group of seaweakened British take over the rotting ""York Factory"" fort from the celebrating French and Stewart, who'd been educated with a laird's son, acts as clerk for the governor.
Meanwhile, the DÃnà woman Thanadelthur has survived a massacre of her people, only to be tormented by a crazed Wood Cat hunter, and Finally to escape.
The halfdead Thana is brought into camp by the Britishers' Cree allies,

"The friendship of Thana and William in the fort the

""house of spears"" grows with the knowledge of each other's language and ripens to love.
There follows a long catastrophewracked trek to locate the ""yellow pebbles"" in DÃnà territory a lust for gold fueled by the governor but shared by William feasts, famines, feuds, and near separation Thana's rival is the English shiplongawaitedat anchor before union in death.


"Houston's action narrative is bright, lively, and uncluttered by obtrusive research, and his delightful illustrations reflect his buoyant interest in the period and a firm knowledge.
In all: a fine, sturdy, freshair period adventure, Oldtimers who fondly remember the Northwest novels of Kenneth Roberts might especially like this, A possible YA. Not a perfect book, but this is certainly historical fiction at its best, Based on the diary of a young Scot who is forcibly encouraged to emigrate to the Canadian North in the earlys.
This is not a whitewashed or politically correct version of history it has the grit of reality, Editorial :

Unjustly banished from Scotland, William Stewart and Thana, a beautiful Dene Indian girl, journey deep into the heart of the unexplored subArctic wilderness, in a story of love and survival set in eighteenthcentury Canada.
This book was so far outside my comfort zone, but I really enjoyed it! There's plenty of adventure and suspense.
As I was nearing the end, things started getting all squishy and I started to doubt my choice to read this.
Houston kept this from being turned into nothing but a passionate romance, however, and I'm glad I continued reading.
Houston takes his time to tell a beautiful and haunting story from the depths of history, James Archibald Houston.