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The great adventure : how the Mounties conquered the West

Title: The great adventure : how the Mounties conquered the West / David Cruise and Alison Griffiths.
Author: Cruise, David, 1950-
Publication: New York, NY : A Wyatt Book for St. Martin's Press, 1997.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	F594 .C88 1997	Off-site

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Griffiths, Alison, 1953-

Description

xii, 416 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

In 1873, an almost impossible mission was accomplished by an improbable posse of recruits. With little training and less experience, 150 men embarked upon a nine-hundred-mile march from civilized Toronto to a trading post at the heart of the wild frontier. Their goal: to penetrate Indian territory, stamp out nefarious whiskey trafficking, and bring order to a lawless land. What they encountered was horrifying and glorious in ways they could never have imagined.
Official histories of the march have been largely based on the writings of the first commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and are colored accordingly. David Cruise and Alison Griffiths present an entirely different perspective of this extraordinary event, using such primary sources as diaries and memoirs by the "Mounties" themselves, contemporary newspaper accounts, and other recently discovered materials.

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ISBN

0312155387

LCCN

97005813

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Columbia University Libraries