"Black Rock - A Tale of the Selkirks." Set in a mining and lumberjack boom town in the 1880s, this literary work centres on a new minister who brings the fight for men s souls to the doors of the seedy saloons and dastardly drug pushers. Plots, fights, and double-crosses abound in the back-and-forth battle played out in the lives of several well-developed characters. (Goodreads)
Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon, or Ralph Connor, (September 13, 1860 – October 31, 1937) was a Canadian novelist, using the Connor pen name while maintaining his status as a Church leader, first in the Presbyterian and later the United Church in Canada. (Wikipedia)