Frederick Niven: 6 books

Originally published in 1935, Frederick Niven’s The Flying Years tells the history of Western Canada from the 1850s to the 1920s as witnessed by Angus Munro, a young Scot forced to emigrate to Canada when his family is evicted from their farm. Working in the isolated setting of Rocky Mountain House,...

The Lost Cabin Mine written by Frederick Niven who was a Canadian novelist of Scottish heritage. This book was published in 1908. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance...

The Lost Cabin Mine, as a name, is familiar to many. But the true story of that mine there is no man who knows. Of that I am positive—because "dead men tell no tales." It was on the sixth day of June, 1900, that I first heard the unfinished story of the Lost Cabin, the first half of the story I may...

In this classic Western set in Canada, a crew of motley misfits and outsiders set off on a two-month expedition in search of a legendary cache of gold. It seems too good to be true, but there are a few hints that the tall tales they've heard about the treasure might be rooted in fact. But when the trio...

Frederick John Niven,  (born March 31, 1878, Valparaíso, Chile—died Jan. 30, 1944, Vancouver, B.C., Can.), was a 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...

Tale of the Apache Kid, a supposed cowboy who wandered the West in the manner of Billy the Kid.