05 March 2012

POD Cover of the Month: The Sky Pilot



Tutis Classics' edition of Ralph Connor's nineteenth-century novel about nineteenth-century settlers and ranchers in the foothills of nineteenth-century Alberta. At the centre of it all is Arthur Wellington Moore, a modest missionary come to convert cowboys. In the 1921 film adaptation he was played by tragic Hollywood figure John Bowers.


Some good soul has uploaded the entire thing to YouTube:



First edition:

The Sky Pilot: A Tale of the Foothills
Chicago: Revell, 1899

Runner up:


Tutis' take on The Man from Glengarry, the story of Ranald Macdonald, a nineteenth-century logger  who grows into manhood with the aid of a pious woman and the mighty Ottawa River.

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