Katherine sees Mike's anxiety for the first time. Mike gets out the instruction manual and quickly studies how to pull a tooth. In Hudson's Hope, Katherine plays assistant to Mike's oral surgeon when the Indian brave named Atenou suffers an abscessed tooth. Katherine depends on Mike for everything. He diagnoses a collapsed right lung and nurses her back to health. Katherine's pleurisy stabs her in the chest and Mike takes her to the Howard's cabin to rest. The trip proves brutal with the frigid air and the snow. Sergeant Mike receives orders from the Canadian Government which send him even further North to a place called Hudson's Hope. While at her Uncle John's ranch, she falls in love with Sergeant Mike Flannigan and they are soon married. She heads off on her journey with a blind courage, a sense of adventure, a desire to experience worldly events, an opinion of life as a fairy tale, and a young impressionability. Sixteen-year-old Katherine Mary O'Fallon travels via train from the civilization of Boston, Massachusetts to the wilds of the Great Northwestern Territory to visit her Uncle John in hopes that the cold and dry air will ease the painful symptoms of her pleurisy. Mike, the Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan by Benedict and Nancy Freedman is a traditional coming of age saga set in the wilderness of Alberta, Canada.
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