Temptations Of Big Bear
Early in his writing career, Rudy Wiebe’s imagination was caught by a heroic character of Cree and Ojibwa ancestry whose birthplace was within twenty-five miles of where Wiebe himself was born 110 years later. The man’s name translated into English was Big Bear, and he came to be the subject of one of Wiebe’s most highly praised works of fiction. A modern classic, Wiebe’s fourth novel is a moving epic of the tumultuous history of the Canadian West. The book won the 1973 Governor General's Award, and in the 1990s was made into a CBC television miniseries based on a script co-written by Wiebe and Métis director Gil Cardinal, shot in Saskatchewan’s Qu’Appelle Valley.
From the early days of North America,…
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Rudy Wiebe was born on October 4, 1934, in an isolated farm community of about 250 people in a rugged but lovely region near Fairholme, Saskatchewan. His parents had escaped Soviet Russia with five children in 1930, part of the last generation of homesteaders to settle the Canadian West, and part of a Mennonite history of displacement and emigration through Europe and Asia to North and South America since the seventeenth century. In 1947 his family gave up their bush farm and moved to Coaldale, Alberta, a town east of Lethbridge peopled largely by Ukrainians, Mennonites, Mormons, and Central Europeans, as well as Japanese, who ended up there during WW II.
Rudy Wiebe read as much as possible from an early…
Come Back
Rudy Wiebe
Extraordinary Canadians: Big Bear
Rudy Wiebe
River Of Stone
Rudy Wiebe
Temptations Of Big Bear
Rudy Wiebe
Peace Shall Destroy Many
Rudy Wiebe
The Blue Mountains of China
Rudy Wiebe, Afterword by Eva-Marie Kroller Afterword by Eva-Marie Kroller
Fruits of the Earth
Frederick Philip Grove, Afterword by Rudy Wiebe Afterword by Rudy Wiebe
Of This Earth
Rudy Wiebe
Sweeter Than All The World
Rudy Wiebe
Stolen Life
Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe
A Discovery Of Strangers
Rudy Wiebe