Frontier Farewell
The 1870s and the End of the Old West
Description
"Gracefully written, fully and meticulously researched. " -- Sharon Butala, author of The Perfection of the Morning
"Frontier Farewell offers new perspectives on everything from the transfer of Rupert's Land to Canada, the Manitoba Resistance of 1869-70, and the Numbered Treaties of the 1870s, to the surveys of the Canadian Prairies, the coming of the North-West Mounted Police, and the fallout from the Battle of the Little Big Horn. " -- Ted Binnema, Department of History, University of Northern British Columbia
"Frontier Farewell has energy and glory. " -- The StarPhoenix
"Wilson. ..writes with great elegance and clarity. " -- James A. Hanson, Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly
Frontier Farewell "ends with the disastrous bloodletting--the gruesome unwinding of a two-hundred-year experiment. " -- Lionel Hughes, Prairies North
Reviews
"A great read. " -- Canada's History Magazine
"Frontier Farewell offers new perspectives on everything from the transfer of Rupert's Land to Canada, the Manitoba Resistance of 1869-70, and the Numbered Treaties of the 1870s, to the surveys of the Canadian Prairies, the coming of the North-West Mounted Police, and the fallout from the Battle of the Little Big Horn. ..You just might want to buy two copies--one for yourself, and one for a friend. " -Ted Binnema, Department of History, University of Northern British Columbia
- Ted Binnema