Edward G. Cooper Jessop's Landing

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Ross and Martha Jessop moves into the Northwest Territory and builds a homestead in harsh but beautiful land; Land that took Rosss loving wife but gave him a son, Frank and a daughter, Patience. And Patience it took to raise her. Adopting an orphan cougar, which became her protector for life. The story follows the young girl from birth to marriage with her protector always close by to oversee the family and yet remain free. A trial of an innocent man shows that justice exists in this remote area of the North where men have to be hard to survive. See how one man keeps his family together without the help of a woman, raising Patience from infancy. Her older brothers feelings of rejection leads him to run away from home and Ross finds him to be trapped by a bear yet protected by a cougar. Adventure awaits at Jessops Landing.