First printing: no additional printings noted as typical for Revell first printings; reinforced by the owner's marks dating 1900. Tight, clean, flat, square. Tips rubbed. Head, tail crisp, but bumped and crimped. Light soil. Glue stain. Light toning to the pages. Revell was a publisher of Christian oriented fiction, sermons and inspirational literature. This story is of the people of the Foothill Country; of those men of adventurous spirit, who left homes of comfort, often of luxury, because of the stirring in them to be and to do some worthy thing; and of those others who, outcast from their kind, sought to find in these valleys, remote and lonely, a spot where they could forget and be forgotten. The story is, too, of how a man with vision beyond the waving skyline came to them with firm purpose to play the brother's part, and by sheer love of them and by faith in them, win them to believe that life is priceless, and that it is good to be a man. The Sky Pilot (John Bowers) arrives in a small rough-and-tumble cattle town in the north, intent on bringing religion to its tough residents. At first they reject him, but in time he wins the residents over with his prowess. A plot to steal cattle is uncovered and disrupted. Gwen, daughter of the "Old Timer," is injured in a stampede, loses her ability to walk, but recovers thanks to the power of love. *** 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. Black Rock, referred to on the title page, was published in 1898. Most of his early work follows a similar frontier preacher outline set in the same region where he served his flock.