Product Description: All Mack Davis wants to do is go to the 1912 Exhibition in Saskatoon and watch that aerial daredevil the Birdman. But on the way he and his Chinese friend Jin are grabbed by a gang of burglars. It's summer, 1912, and all of Saskatoon is excited about the Exhibition coming to town, complete with a Wild West show, and horses jumping from thirty-foot-high ramps into tanks full of water...read more

Although many people blame the Galician immigrants for the crime wave that hits Saskatoon in 1912, young Mackenzie Davis, son of a reporter, doesn't believe it and intends to find out the truth.

While Sandra waits for the pelican she befriended to reappear the next year, she and her father work on the neglected garden, with the help of two neighbors with definite--and conflicting--ideas about how to procede.