At this juncture, a great deal of the work for the project has been done. A substantial amount of the archival research has been done, and I'm well into the writing aspect of the project. Although, it should be as I've been working on the project for almost two years. Approximately 30,000 words have been written, and bits of each chapter have begun to take shape. After some revisions and reconsideration, I suspect now that there will be 6 or 7 chapters in the final text. Originally, I was going to have a chapter on the British Columbia Provincial Police and the Okanagan Valley as a frontier, but after consideration, these two chapters have been jettisoned.
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This morning's writing session began either the first chapter or the introduction. This aspect of the book looks at Murdoch's early life in Scotland, his emigration to Canada and the time that he spent in the United States. Interestingly, New Cumnock, the town or Murdoch's birth, has connections to William Wallace, Robert the Bruce and Robbie Burns. It gives the the beginning of the book a rather auspicious opening.
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