The Mountain That Walked

The year is 1903, and Charlie Sutherland, a sixteen-year-old orphan, is on the run. Three years earlier, he was sent by Dr. Barnardo's Home in England to work on the remote Alberta homestead of Albert and Buck Brooks. Charlie has been treated poorly by the two brothers, but he has endured. However, when Albert dies under curious circumstances, and Buck accuses him of murder, Charlie has to run. He ends up in a coal-mining town in the Rocky Mountains. Once there, Charlie finally finds friendship and a sense of belonging and self-worth???emotional qualities that had eluded him as a mere "Home boy." Things change dramatically, however, when???as the local aboriginals have for centuries predicted it would???the mountain walks. In this true event of April 29, 1903, Turtle Mountain collapses, burying a portion of the town. What Charlie does next is determined by what he's learned from those he's become close to, the hard-working immigrants and colorful Canadians who struggled against all odds.