W.J. Kieth

First, a value-judgement: I still consider the Watch that Ends the Night to be Hugh MacLennan's first novel.

On the day the Mad Trapper was formally pub lished (13 September 1980), the Toronto Globe and Mail reported that Frank Hersey, last survivor of the party that hunted down Albert Johnson in 1932, had condemned the book as "inaccurate and ridiculous."