A girl staring into the distance, two Chinese coal miners joking during a break from work, and a Pallas cat lying in the snow ...

Alistair MacLeod publishes his one novel, No Great Mischief. It was a very big deal at the time. The master’s masterwork.

Frank S. Matsura arrived in Washington state’s Okanogan County, which had recently been established along the U.S.–Canadian border.