SUN ON THE MOUNTAINS IS THE STORY OF THE JAMES FAMILY, Quaker bankers forced from Philadelphia during the American Revolution because of their pacifist beliefs. The family re-establishes in the Canadian West and begins trading and intermarrying with the Piikani tribe of The Blackfoot Confederacy. As the prairie culture adapts to the introduction of ranching, farming, and the oil industry, the James build their fortune without losing their family ethics.

The Sun On The Mountains symbol acknowledges the Sun tradition of Native cultures, and the family’s Quaker tradition of the Light Within.