Harold Bindloss 
Intriguers [PDF ebook] 

Though he was born and died in England, many of the intervening years of Harold Bindloss’ life were spent traveling the world and living in primitive pioneer communities in North America, experiences that would inform his later career as a novelist. In The Intriguers, a pair of army officers get separated from the rest of their regiment during an expedition to the Northwest — and find themselves embroiled in a nefarious extortion scheme.