Original pictorial cover in black and orange on tan cloth on boards, No DJ. Front free endpaper is missing. Believed First Canadian Edition. A glance at the first few pages gives the reader an appreciation of this writer and what has been called "Canada's first western." Her grasp of language and social issues is remarkable. Freebooters are big companies that strip the land of its resources, sometimes legally. This copy clean and sound. 443 pp.