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100 1 _aPinkerton, Robert E.
_q(Robert Eugene),
_d1882-1970
245 1 4 _aThe test of Donald Norton
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-08
508 _aTim Lindell, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
520 _a"The Test of Donald Norton" by Robert E. Pinkerton is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set in the Canadian North, it follows a boy of hidden origins who is determined to rise in the Hudson’s Bay Company while facing hostility, rivalry, and the question of who he truly is. Centered on Donald Norton, his embittered Ojibwa foster mother Nee-tah-wee-gan, and his white mentors Merton and Evelyn Layard, it explores identity, loyalty, and ambition in a brutal wilderness. Expect fur‑trade intrigue, moral tests, and a fierce coming‑of‑age. The opening of the novel introduces Wen-dah-ban, a child raised by the Ojibwa woman Nee-tah-wee-gan, whose terror at a bear’s visit exposes a buried secret: the boy may be a white baby she saved during a fatal post fire, not her own. After she kills her taunting mate and takes the gentler Pe-tah-bo, the isolated boy grows up longing for the white world, sneaks to Fort Kenogami, and becomes entranced by the Layards—and mocked for his mixed looks—before defiantly claiming he is white. During his fasting rite he dreams he is white-born, prompting Evelyn Layard to take him under her wing, teach him, and give him the name Donald Norton, while Nee‑tah‑wee‑gan haunts him with the daily sting, “You are an Indian.” Donald learns fast, earns charge of the Wabinosh outpost, outmaneuvers a rival free trader through shrewd planning during a rabbit famine, and is promoted to manage Whitefish Lake, where he forges a wary friendship with his cultured adversary Philip Collinge; the section ends as illness fells him and the very woman who tormented him fiercely nurses him back from fever. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cToronto: Copp Clark, 1924
653 _aCanada -- Fiction
653 _aFur traders -- Fiction
700 1 _aSt. John, J. Allen
_q(James Allen),
_d1872-1957
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/testofdonaldnort00pink/page/n5/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77425
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