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 mother: 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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