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Norman Keeler is a young man exiled from his home by the necessities of World War 1. He then is unjustly accused of a heinous crime shot by the police jailed then finally exonerated he flees assumes an alias and lives in the United States as a cowboy. He marries and adopts a son. </P><P>He is betrayed by his wife and left with the boy to raise. </P>He wanders throughout the depression years and takes another woman though he cannot marry her. They have a child a daughter and move into a cabin on the Fraser River north of Prince George B.C. </P><P>They live by hunting foraging growing a garden and what little money he can earn working odd jobs down the valley or prospecting for gold in the river. </P><P>Their daughter tells the rest of the story of hardship danger and survival as another child is born to them a son. </P><P>They are so far from roads and transportation that they must carry their supplies on their backs or on dogsleds. </P><P>They fight the intense cold deep snow flooding rivers and wild animals as long as his strength lasts. </P>