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"The Girl of O. K. Valley" is the coming of age tale of a young boy, set in a small seaside village. Douglas Gordon had been brought up by his foster parents. His foster mother Sarah Berry, a kind hearted dressmaker, supported the family, given that her husband Sam was often drunk on the little money he made unloading ships in the docks. Sarah eventually falls sick and dies, but not before asking Douglas to forgive his parents for abandoning him. And she also gives him a letter from his real father, a letter that is to be opened on his twenty second birthday...
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Robert Watson's novel 'the Girl of O.K Valley' was first published in 1919, and is set in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley. The novel was written while the author was working as an accountant at the Hudson's Bay Company store in Vernon, BC.Robert Watson was born on May 20, 1882 in Glasgow, Scotland. He was educated at Pollock and Shawlands Academies in Scotland, before moving to Canada in 1908. He married Anna McNaught Johnstone in 1911, and was employed by the Hudson's Bay Company from 1917 to 1932. He also worked as Editor of the Beaver, and wrote several books. Watson moved to British Columbia for a while, before moving to Hollywood, California to work in the movie industry. He died in Laguna Beach, California, on January 13, 1948 from injuries following a car accident on New Year's Eve.
The Girl of OK Valley, A Romance of the OkanaganBy Robert Watson (First published 1919)Rancher Colin Jackson was in one of his oft-recurring tantrums of anger-madness. His gloomy personality was hanging over the farm-house like an impending cloudburst, ready, on the slightest provocation, to break into a torrent of abuse.He had little time for women - his wife, his daughter, and now his 18-year-old neice Kathie was arriving by train shortly, promising more irritation. Jackson was a bully and his plan was to put her to work quickly enough.Little did he know that Kathie had met a gentleman during her 6,000-mile journey. As she left the train, and he'd carried her bag most of the way to her new home, and then there was Jim, a young ranch-hand. Work was far from Kathie's mind.
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