4 Novels the Island Providence, a Wilderness of Monkeys, Hands Up!, the Lost Cabin Mine

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This volume contains four great novels by FREDERICK NIVEN, the canadian writer of historical novels about Canada and Scotland (where he grew up and was educated), and westerns. Among his best known works are The Lost Cabin Mine and Hands up!, both early westerns, and both character study of a frontier outlaw with "good" bad man credentials. Like other train robbers and road agents of western history, he is absorbed into the cowboy culture of the open range between his crimes. There, even should his identity be known, he's given shelter from the long arm of the law... The novels in this collection are, in chronological order of publication: The Island Providence A Wilderness of Monkeys Hands Up! The Lost Cabin Mine Frederick John Niven, (born March 31, 1878, Valparaíso, Chile-died Jan. 30, 1944, Vancouver, B.C., Can.) regional novelist who wrote more than 30 novels, many of them historical romances, set in Scotland and Canada. Three of his best-known novels-The Flying Years (1935), Mine Inheritance (1940), and The Transplanted (1944)-form a trilogy dealing with the settlement of the Canadian west.Educated in Scotland, Niven worked in libraries in Glasgow and Edinburgh. He went to Canada about 1900 and worked in construction camps in the Canadian west. Returning to the British Isles, he was a writer and journalist in England until after World War I, when he settled permanently in British Columbia. He also published verse and an autobiography, Coloured Spectacles (1938).