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Mudeater - An American Buffalo Hunter and the Surrender of Louis Riel

Mudeater

An American Buffalo Hunter and the Surrender of Louis Riel

Paperback : 9780889774582, 308 pages, March 2017

Table of contents

Contents

A Note on Terminology
Introduction
Maps
U.S. Plains, circa 1870s
Southern and Central Saskatchewan and Alberta, circa 1880s

Part One: The Life of Robert Armstrong

Chapter One: Before Robert Armstrong
Chapter Two: Youth to 1885
Chapter Three: 1885
Chapter Four: 1885 to 1940

Part Two: Robert Armstrong's Memoir

Preface to Armstrong's Memoir
Robert Armstrong's Memoir 

Appendices 

Appendix 1: Riel's Apprenhension: Many Versions 
Appendix 2: Riel's Apprehension: Accounts by the Three Captors 

Notes 
Bibliography
Index
 

Description

"A really interesting read. " Keith Carlson, author of The Power of Place, The Problem of Time

Born the son of a Wyandot Chief in Kansas in 1849, Irvin Mudeater was one of the last great frontiersmen of the American West.

Hired to run wagon trains to Santa Fe, Mudeater fought off "Indian attacks," was caught up in the Civil War, drove a stagecoach, and lived as a plainsman on the lawless frontier. Most of all, he was a buffalo hunter--killing 126 head in just one day.

In 1882, Mudeater moved to Canada, adopted the name Robert Armstrong, and portrayed himself as white. Shortly after the fall of Batoche, he played the lead role in bringing the fugitive Metis leader, Louis Riel, into custody.

John D. Pihach attempts to resolve the opposing stories of Riel's surrender/capture, scrutinizes the sensational incidents in Armstrong/Mudeater's life, and, with the inclusion of Mudeater's unpublished memoir, allows this consummate storyteller to speak in his own voice.

Reviews

"The story of how Mudeater became Armstrong sheds light on a key chapter in Canadian history during the country's sesquicentennial, as the country grapples with so many of the colonial legacies and questions of identity that Armstrong, or Mudeater, represented. " -- The Globe and Mail

". ..offers a very valuable glimpse into the life and mind of one elderly veteran of the American frontier. " -- Montana: The Magazine of Western History