This Quiet Dust: A Chronicle of Old Frontenac Deer Hunting of his compatriots to the

of his compatriots to the preservationist cause through his work with the Sierra Club

McManus offers more charming and insightful portrayals of rural life

With a number of items tipped in

unpublished in books

This Quiet Dust: A Chronicle of Old Frontenac Deer Hunting of his compatriots to theIvan Kubista, This Quiet Dust. Vantage Press. 1978. Hardbound in dust jacket. Book and dust jacket fine. $25. This vivid, absorbing, and scrupulously researched historical novel focuses on Lewis and Israel Garrard, brothers and members of a prominent Cincinnati family who set out for the Northwest Territory in the early 1850s and eventually carved out of the Minnesota wilderness an Edenic community called Frontenac. Though little known today,