Monuments of Grass

He was torn from everything he knew and dropped into a wilderness that wanted him dead, with nothing but his hands and his wits.

Boundless McLennan, a Scottish printer, arrives in the American colonies as an indentured convict, certain his life is over.

It hasn't even begun.

Britain and France are carving up a continent. The frontier runs on...

He survives wild animals, grass fires, hostile patrols and the warring tribes caught between France and Britain. What he cannot outrun is his own obsession.

Boundless McLennan, escaped convict, is lost and alone on the vast prairies of 18th century America. The French and Indian War is raging as two empires battle for a continent, the native...

He survived Gettysburg. Holding on to his great-grandfather's land may take more from him than the war did.

Purchase McLennan comes home from the Civil War to the one inheritance his family has never had to defend: a stone buffalo carved out of a rock monolith on the Dakota grass, raised by a great-grandfather he never knew, on land that nobody...

A feverish man awakens in a strange lodge, tended by a mysterious woman speaking an unknown tongue. ‘Who am I?’ he demands. The unanswered question will haunt him to his last breath.

The year is 1900. New France, a semi-autonomous region of French-speaking Quebec, is on the cusp of profound change. The once unquestioned authority of the church is...

He journeyed a thousand miles to seek answers to his family legacy and found — and then lost — himself.

Finn Wheeler is a journalist in New France. Separatist passions are rising as an election looms: on one side, nostalgic habitants loyal to a romantic vision of the past; on the other, liberal reformists attached to a federal union with Quebec...