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Strange empire : a narrative of the Northwest

Title: Strange empire : a narrative of the Northwest / Joseph Kinsey Howard.
Author: Howard, Joseph Kinsey, 1906-1951.
Publication: New York : Morrow, 1952.

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Description

xii, 601 p. : maps; 22 cm.

Summary

The tragic story of Louis Riel, the Metis people, and their struggle for a homeland on the plains of the U.S.-Canada border.

Subject

Genre/Form

Americana

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

"Bibliography, compiled by Rosalea Fox": p. 567-588.

Contents

Introduction-One Sure and Certain Loyalty -- Part One: Falcon's Song -- Heart of a continent -- Freedom road -- Manifest destiny -- Chance of glory -- Part Two: New Nation -- Gentlemen in pembina -- The whole unbounded continent -- A people ... free to choose -- Mr. smith wins an empire -- Four voted for death -- Part Three: Crackpot Crusade -- The jolly boys -- The wardens of the plains -- The politicians -- Part Four: Decade of Death -- The dusk of evening -- The freedoms and the fence -- The prince of the prairies -- Part Five: Path of Providence -- The psalms of david -- John brown of the half-breeds -- Leader of a sedition -- Part Six: Prophet on Horseback -- The right of people -- "Marchons, mes braves!" -- Justice commands -- Malbrouck has gone a-fighting -- Part Seven: Cardboard shrine -- The ignorant armies -- The darkling plain -- The struggle and flight -- Part Eight: High Treason -- Instigation of the devil -- To the place appointed ... -- Deliver us from evil

ISBN

083717290X
9780837172903

LCCN

52009705

OCLC

ocm00222794
222794
SCSB-164590

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library