Ridgwell Cullum - Hound From the North

Gold! Opium! Love! Murder! Revenge! Prairie intrigue at its best:
Prudence helps her mother run a ranch in southern Manitoba. Her brother has been hunting gold in the Yukon, but he returns home penniless and troubled, and accompanied by a bad-tempered 3-legged husky. Leslie, her fiance, is a Customs Officer hot on the trail of a canoe paddling opium smuggler. When a loved one is murdered, Prudence vows to avenge the bloody deed, at any cost. — Summary by Lisa Reichert