Author : Tracey Nyland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798560650131
The Mountain That Walks by Tracey Nyland Pdf
In 1904, Anna Rezac leaves her small town in Europe with her husband and two-year old daughter, in search of something beyond a life of poverty and strife. Carrying two small suitcases and a dream, Anna and her family embark on a journey that will take them 5000 miles away from home, to the mountains of western Canada and the small coal-mining town of Frank. As the train approaches the town from the east, Anna gets her first look at Turtle Mountain, and the staggering magnitude of the rockslide the mountain unleashed just one year earlier, burying the valley and part of the town beneath it. In the years to come, Anna would face many challenges. There would be adventure and hardship, tragedy and grief. There would be fierce blizzards, train robberies and shoot-outs, illegal rum-running during Prohibition, mining disasters, and fear of another rockslide. Nothing would come easy. Coal-mining was a hazardous occupation at the best of times, and in the Crow's Nest Pass, disasters seem to stack up with stunning regularity. Anna would have to dig deep to find the strength and courage she needs to face a future that keeps changing. But along the way, Anna would find unexpected gifts - moments of peace and beauty, and of simple joys. But the greatest gift of all would be the gift of love, as Anna and her family forge friendships that will last a lifetime, and beyond. Those bonds would grow stronger, year after year, and the fledgling community would become a family, standing shoulder to shoulder, in good times and bad. And no matter what the future brings, Anna knows she won't face it alone.