The Long Patrol: A Tale of the Mounted Police
Hiram Alfred CodyProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019
Rating 2.7- Word count
- 417K words
- Chapters
- 42
Tags
English Originals Suspense ThrillerNature ObservationAdventure JourneyFate and FortuneVengeance and GratitudeJianghu FeudHeroismCriminal PsychologyDuty and HonorNorthern CanadaSummary
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.The Long Patrol: A Tale of the Mounted Police by H. A. CodyAuthor: Cody, H. A. (Hiram Alfred), 1872-1948,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Mar 28, 2014Editor's review
This novel is about the Royal North-West Mounted Police and tells an adventure story of patrol duty, a specimen of early twentieth-century popular English-language adventure fiction. H. A. Cody liked to build plots against the northern wilderness; the book is brisk and clearly plot-driven, a good entry point to the Mounted Police genre. As a public-domain ebook it is easy to obtain and search, and suits English learners as long-form extensive reading. Enjoy it as genre fiction, following the characters' choices and actions in a harsh environment, without demanding literary depth. Readers interested in Canadian history or the Mounted Police can compare it with historical sources to tell fiction from fact.Who it's for
A good fit for
- Genre readers who enjoy adventure and frontier settings
- English learners seeking a strongly plotted long text for extensive reading
- Readers interested in Canadian history and the Mounted Police
- Teachers who need a public-domain English novel for class extensive reading
Not a good fit for
- Serious fiction readers who prefer literary and psychological depth
- Researchers seeking rigorous historical fact about the Mounted Police
- Readers impatient with early popular English fiction style
Reading tips
- Move chapter by chapter and sum up the plot in a sentence or two at each chapter's end to keep the thread.
- Sort unfamiliar words into those that block understanding and those that don't; skip the latter for now.
- After finishing, look up the history of the Mounted Police and compare it with the novel's fictional treatment.
- Read alongside other adventure novels of the same kind and discuss the genre's conventions.
About the publisher
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Contents
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FAQ
Is this a real memoir by a Mounted Police officer?
No. According to the source, it is a novel by H. A. Cody, identified in the title as a tale—a fictional adventure narrative, not a firsthand memoir. Enjoy the plot, but do not cite it as a historical source on the Mounted Police.How difficult is the English, and is it good for exam preparation?
It is early twentieth-century popular fiction with generally plain language and fast plotting, suitable as long-form extensive reading. Some vocabulary and phrasing are period-specific, so exam candidates should focus on following the story rather than reading word by word.Why read it as genre fiction?
Because its main appeal is the patrol adventure plot and the northern atmosphere, not complex literary experiment. Approaching it as genre fiction makes the pace easier to enjoy and gives a fairer view of its place in Mounted Police popular literature.This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.
About the author
Hiram Alfred Cody Author · Canadian · 1872–1948Hiram Alfred Cody (1872–1948) was a Canadian Anglican priest and novelist. Born in Codys, New Brunswick, in 1872, he was ordained in 1896. He spent five years as a missionary in Whitehorse, Yukon, and kept forty-three diaries there; this northern experience supplied material for his later writing. Cody published twenty-five novels in his lifetime, drawing largely on the northern wilderness, seafaring adventure and United Empire Loyalist pioneering. His representative works include The King's Arrow, The Fourth Watch, Glen of the High North and his Yukon tales, and his books are commonly classed as inspirational coming-of-age fiction. He became archdeacon of Saint John in 1927 and died there in 1948. Eleven of his works are held in this collection.