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What do you owe to home when another country also has a claim on your life?
In A Man of Two Countries, Alice Harriman places a life divided between nations against the open country of the American frontier. Each country has a claim on one man. The central question is simple to ask but hard to answer: where does he belong?
Loyalty and ambition pull through this adventure. Ties to a homeland can sit uneasily beside duties to a friend, a promise or a new community. Far from settled towns, the frontier becomes a test of character, where the wish to get ahead meets the weight of belonging.
What you’ll discover
- Two countries, one life Explore the uneasy idea of belonging to two places, with each making its own claim.
- The open frontier Enter a world of open land, where distance from settled towns puts character to the test.
- Loyalties that pull apart Consider what happens when duty to home does not agree with other ties.
- The weight of ambition Follow the tension between wanting a different life and remaining faithful to old bonds.
- Adventure with hard questions Find an American frontier story that asks what a person owes to the places they call home.
Who will love it
Readers who love frontier adventure, steamboats and Mounted Police, and stories where friendship and honor are tested by ambition and old grudges, will find plenty to enjoy here, along with a deepening love story that blooms late.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A brawl on the Far West
- Fort Benton wins his heart
- Loneliness and friendship at Macleod
- The whiskey raid and the dance
- Love, secrecy, and a cruel mail
- A cattleman is asked to sell his friend
- Winifred, grown up
- A legislature goes up for sale
- What the story is really about
- How the story is told
Who’s who
- Philip DanversA shy, upright young Englishman who joins the Mounted Police, then builds a new life in Montana and fights to keep his honor.
- Robert BurroughsA shrewd, ambitious trader known as Sweet Oil Bob, who hates Philip on sight and grows rich on whiskey and politics.
- Arthur LatimerA warm, sociable Southern lawyer who becomes Philip's dearest friend and dreams of an honest career on the bench.
- Winifred BlairThe little girl Philip once rescued, now a clever, loyal woman who protects her brother and hides her own feelings.
- Charlie BlairAlso called Scar Faced Charlie, a freighter turned politician who loves his sister but is weak against drink and temptation.
- The doctorA kindly physician who believes in Fort Benton's future and watches over his friends with wit and wisdom.
- Eva ThornhillA beautiful major's daughter who wants glamour, money, and attention, and who chooses ambition over love.
- O'DwyerA cheerful Irish trooper who worships Philip and follows him from the barracks to the Legislature.
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Ein Mann aus zwei Ländern
by Alice Harriman · 1910
A young English trooper on a Missouri steamboat makes an enemy who will shadow his life on the Montana frontier.
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A Man of Two Countries is a novel of the American and Canadian frontier by Alice Harriman. It follows Philip Danvers, a reserved young Englishman who rides a Missouri River steamboat into Montana in the 1870s as a recruit for the North West Mounted Police.
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A brawl on the Far West
The novel opens at Bismarck, where Philip Danvers leads a party of horsemen onto the levee just as the steamboat Far West is about to leave. The recruits for the North West Mounted Police have booked passage months before, but the crowded passengers resent them. One passenger stands out at once, a heavyset frontiersman named Robert Burroughs, who seems to dominate even the captain.
Burroughs takes a dislike to the lean, dark-haired Englishman before a word is spoken. He learns that Philip is a plain trooper and not an officer, and he starts to needle him in front of the crew. Among the passengers are people who will matter for the rest of the book. There is Arthur Latimer, a cheerful young lawyer from the South who dreams of sitting on a state supreme court. There is a kindly doctor who believes that Fort Benton will grow into a second St. Louis. And there is Scar Faced Charlie, a freight hauler who travels with his small sister.
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What is A Man of Two Countries about?
It follows Philip Danvers, an English trooper who rides a steamboat into Montana, serves in the Mounted Police, and later becomes an American cattleman and legislator. His life is shaped by friendship, love, and a long rivalry with the trader Robert Burroughs.
Who is Robert Burroughs in A Man of Two Countries?
Burroughs is a fur trader, also called Sweet Oil Bob, who hates Philip from their first meeting. He is clever and rich, and he later schemes to win a seat in the United States Senate.
What does the Chinese legend mean in the book?
The legend tells of an angel who divides a drop from the Sea of Love into two souls, a man and a woman, who spend eternity searching for each other. It frames the love story and appears more than once.
The author
Alice Harriman
1861–1925 · American poet and publisher
Alice Harriman (1861–1925) was an American poet, novelist, and publisher. She lived in the United States and worked in publishing in the early twentieth century. She wrote the novel A Man of Two Countries. Her publishing work included issuing books by other writers.
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