The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills, by Ralph Connor
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"[...] CHAPTER I THE FOOTHILLS COUNTRY Beyond the great prairies and in the shadow of the Rockies lie the Foothills. For nine hundred miles the prairies spread themselves out in vast level reaches, and then begin to climb over softly rounded mounds that ever grow higher and sharper till, here and there, they break into jagged points and at last rest upon the great bases of the mighty mountains. These rounded hills that join the prairies to the mountains form the Foothill Country. They extend for about a hundred miles only, but no other hundred miles of the great West are so full of interest and romance. The natural features of the country combine the beauties of prairie and of mountain scenery. There are valleys so wide that the farther side melts into the horizon, and uplands so vast as to suggest the unbroken prairie. Nearer the mountains the valleys dip deep and ever deeper till they narrow into canyons through which mountain torrents pour their blue-gray waters from glaciers that lie glistening between the white peaks far away. Here are the great ranges on which feed herds of cattle and horses. Here are[...]".
The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills, by Ralph Connor- Amazon Sales Rank: #9522607 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .30" w x 6.00" l, .28 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 130 pages
About the Author 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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Little Minister Influences Big Land, Big Men, Big Challenges! By BobDD From 1900 Alberta/Northwest Territory Rocky Mountain foothills comes this story of the taming of the last of the wild west. A young minister comes among the secretive closed-off society of lumberjacks, ranchers and cowpokes who view encroaching civilization with a proud cynicism. Initially stuck with the derisive appellation of "The Sky Pilot" - his influence nevertheless brings God, goodness, and personal decisions to be viewed as serious opportunities to develop character in keeping with the rugged grandeur of their surroundings. The colorful local zanies are astounded at his non-religious manner and how accepting he is of what they thought he would be against and how challenging he is in several unexpected ways. Several characters are carefully developed; much humor - a moving story.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Little Minister Influences Big Land, Big Men, Big Challenges! By BobDD From 1900 Alberta/Northwest Territory Rocky Mountain foothills comes this story of the taming of the last of the wild west. A young minister comes among the secretive closed-off society of lumberjacks, ranchers and cowpokes who view encroaching civilization with a proud cynicism. Initially stuck with the derisive appellation of "The Sky Pilot" - his influence nevertheless brings God, goodness, and personal decisions to be viewed as serious opportunities to develop character in keeping with the rugged grandeur of their surroundings. The colorful local zanies are astounded at his non-religious manner and how accepting he is of what they thought he would be against and how challenging he is in several unexpected ways. Several characters are carefully developed; much humor - a moving story.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Colorful Account of the Frontier By Ralph Lawrence I first heard the term "Sky Pilot" many years ago, when a man was talking about pastors or clergy who conduct their ministries on the frontier of the North American West. His observation was that such pastors were a kind of breed-set-apart, more down-to-earth than those who preferred the more genteel styles of the big cities, men (no female clergy in those days - but young women often found themselves on the western frontier, called there to be "school marms" and expected to marry local ranchers and cowboys) who were willing to live and work in those untamed regions, and adapt to the same type of environment as depicted in countless western movies. At the time, I was a young pastor serving a parish that would fit the frontier description very nicely, a small western town that had sprung up in the 19th century along the railroad when the original Oregon Short Line (later to become part of the Union Pacific) was constructed in the Pacific Northwest.If an author so captures a certain meaning, that his words becomes part of the human vocabulary even when separated from his original story, we can call him a definite success. That is exactly what has happened here. The author of Sky Pilot, Ralph Connor, captured beautifully the world about which he wrote, both the natural surroundings and the diverse people who populate that world. His words, fitting a tradition widely expanded in the work of Louis L'Amour, describe in a skillful, appreciative way, the character of a portion of the North American continent that has been typically ignored by those preferring the life of eastern cities. Here is a sample:“Beyond the great prairies and in the shadow of the Rockies lie the Foothills. For nine hundred miles the prairies spread themselves out in vast level reaches, and then begin to climb over softly rounded mounds that ever grow higher and sharper till, here and there, they break into jagged points and at last rest upon the great bases of the mighty mountains. These rounded hills that join the prairies to the mountains form the Foothill Country. They extend for about a hundred miles only, but no other hundred miles of the great West are so full of interest and romance. The natural features of the country combine the beauties of prairie and of mountain scenery. There are valleys so wide that the farther side melts into the horizon, and uplands so vast as to suggest the unbroken prairie. Nearer the mountains the valleys dip deep and ever deeper till they narrow into canyons through which mountain torrents pour their blue-gray waters from glaciers that lie glistening between the white peaks far away. Here are the great ranges on which feed herds of cattle and horses. Here are the homes of the ranchmen, in whose wild, free, lonely existence there mingles much of the tragedy and comedy, the humor and pathos, that go to make up the romance of life. Among them are to be found the most enterprising, the most daring, of the peoples of the old lands. The broken, the outcast, the disappointed, these too have found their way to the ranches among the Foothills. A country it is whose sunlit hills and shaded valleys reflect themselves in the lives of its people; for nowhere are the contrasts of light and shade more vividly seen than in the homes of the ranchmen of the Albertas. The experiences of my life have confirmed in me the orthodox conviction that Providence sends his rain upon the evil as upon the good; else I should never have set my eyes upon the Foothill country, nor touched its strangely fascinating life, nor come to know and love the most striking man of all that group of striking men of the Foothill country— the dear old Pilot, as we came to call him long afterwards.”
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