Available for the first time in one volume, Trees Are Lonely Company is a collection of Howard O’Hagan’s short stories previously published to critical acclaim in The Woman Who Got on at Jasper Station & Other Stories and Wilderness Men .
spanning decades of O’Hagan’s experience―as mountain guide, gentleman adventurer and storyteller―this collection of tales include A Mountain Journey , The Man Who Walked Naked Across Montana , Grey Owl , The Warning and The Little Bear That Climbs Trees . The title story, Trees Are Lonely Company , was awarded the President’s Medal of the University of Western Ontario in 1959 for best short story of the year.
As in his classic novel, Tay John , O’Hagan’s characters in these stories are formed by and emerge from the life-force of the landscapes they inhabit―emblematic of a continent emerging into history.
This collection serves to commemorate the life’s work of one of Canada’s most passionately imaginative writers.