greathearted

"By turns greathearted and grim, [the novel] probes the reasons for, and the consequences of, the human practice of war.

his memory will live in the heart of Saskatoon for many decades to come, and if that memory serves to bring to this city and this political constituency, some of his greathearted tolerance of human weaknesses and some of his splendid Christian spirit, his political career will have been as valuable to this community as his services at Ottawa would have been to Canada."

To Neil she represents the great age of the pioneers, but Cather saw in her life the way in which a generation of "shrewd young men," who had never dared anything, drove out "the dreamers, the greathearted adventurers" who had won the Old West.