Spirit-of-iron (Manitou-pewabic)

The novel follows the career of Hector Adair, an idealized North‑West Mounted Police officer whose service embodies duty, discipline and frontier stoicism. Set during the region’s pioneer period, episodic chapters depict patrols, arrests and manhunts, tense confrontations with a scheming politician, encounters with Indigenous communities and ceremonial life, and the policing challenges that accompany territorial development. Through vividly rendered incidents — holding strategic passes, pursuing outlaws and confronting a dangerous conspiracy — the narrative traces both personal trials and the institutional ethos that shaped law, order and the settlement of the North‑West.