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  • Denny's Trek: A Mountie's Memoir of the March West

    A Mountie's Memoir of the March West

    by Cecil E. Denny ...
    Like many other pioneering North West Mounted Police officers, Cecil Denny was a colourful, independent man with a career full of conquests and controversy. He and his comrades played key roles in the taming of Canada's wild and woolly west, and in this compilation of selected writings from his books The Law Marches West and The Riders of the Plains, we get that story straight from the horse's ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Frontier Cowboys and the Great Divide

    Early Ranching in BC and Alberta

    by Ken Mather ...
    Despite being neighbouring provinces with long ranching histories, British Columbia and Alberta saw their ranching techniques develop quite differently. As most ranching styles were based on one of the two dominant styles in use south of the border, BC ranchers tended to adopt the California style whereas Alberta took its lead from Texas. But the different practices actually go back much further. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police

    by Roderick George MacBeth ...
    pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. A few years ago I was away north of Edmonton on the trail of Alexander Mackenzie, fur trader and explorer, who a century and a quarter before had made the amazing journey from the prairies over the mountains to the Pacific Coast. We looked with something like awe and wonder at the site of the old fort near ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Hudson's Bay Company Adventures: Tales of Canada's Fur Traders

    Tales of Canada's Fur Traders

    by Elle Andra-Warner ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    The early history of the Hudson's Bay Company comes alive in these true tales of fur-trade wars, incredible wilderness journeys, hardships and danger. Founded by the extraordinary adventurers and renegades Radisson and des Groseilliers, the HBC attracted many memorable characters. Explorer Henry Kelsey was the first European to see the buffalo herds. James Knight met a mysterious fate on a frozen ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Constable for Life: Chronicles of a Canadian Mountie

    by Chuck Bertrand ...
    This book is a compilation of the unique adventures of Constable Chuck Bertrand's career in and around the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.This collection of short stories presents the reader with a refreshing view of policing. Entwined with the many humorous tales are some that tell of the darker realities of life.The Constable for Life anecdotes relate how a common sense, well-rounded individual ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death Wins in the Arctic

    The Lost Winter Patrol of 1910

    by Kerry Karram ...
    With prospectors, trappers, and whalers pouring into northwestern Canada, the North West Mounted Police were dispatched to the newest frontier to maintain patrols, protect indigenous peoples, and enforce laws in the North. In carrying out their duties, these intrepid men endured rigorous and dangerous conditions.On December 21, 1910, a four-man patrol left Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, ... Read more

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  • The Ranch on the Cariboo

    by Alan Fry ...
    Series series Classics West Collection
    It was the summer of ’43 on a Cariboo ranch. He was 12 and had to become a man. If you were a man, you could become a cowboy. Join the author on this nostalgic look back on the joys, frustrations and observations of growing up and discovering where he belongs.Excerpt from Eldon Lee's foreword: “This book by Alan Fry is probably the best book ever written on ranch life in the Cariboo. His account ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Early Years of the Northwest Mounted Police of Canada. Illustrated.

    by J G A Creighton ...
    Creighton takes us through the first years of the famous police force in Northwest Canada. This short piece is richly illustrated with sketches by Frederic Remington. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Bear Child: The Life and Times of Jerry Potts

    The Life and Times of Jerry Potts

    by Rodger D. Touchie ...
    The West was a lawless domain when Jerry Potts was born into the Upper Missouri fur trade in 1838. The son of a Scottish father and a Blood mother, he was given the name Bear Child by his Blood tribe for his bravery and tenacity while he was still a teen. In 1874, when the North West Mounted Police first marched west and sat lost and starving near the Canada-U.S. border, it was Potts who led them ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Bronc Busters and Hay Sloops: Ranching in the West in the Early 20th Century

    Ranching in the West in the Early 20th Century

    by Ken Mather ...
    Bronc Busters and Hay Sloops tells the story of ranching in the West from the beginning of the Great War until 1960. Cowboy soldiers, bronc busters, First Nations, upper-crust Englishmen and the strong, capable women of ranching country . . . theirs are the stories told in this book. Some of these characters are larger than life, such as:Joe Coutlee, cow boss of the Douglas Lake Ranch, whose ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Wilderness Tales: Adventures in the Backcountry

    Adventures in the Backcountry

    by Peter Christensen ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    These true stories of people who work and live in the spectacular mountain wilderness of Alberta and British Columbia are filled with humour, keen observations about man and nature, and memorable human and animal characters. Old-time cowboys Johnny and Cal offer their no-nonsense brand of homespun wisdom. Wasp, the talented saddle horse, teaches his rider more than just horsemanship. From life-and ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Four Degrees Celsius

    A Story of Arctic Peril

    by Kerry Karram ...
    This true story began in August 1929. A group of eight prospectors, led by C.D.H. MacAlpine of the Dominion Explorers, flew into the Arctic in search of mineral wealth. Grossly underequipped, the expedition ran out of fuel and was stranded above the Arctic Circle. Within days, Western Canada Airways sent a rescue team headed by Captain Andy Cruickshank, in what was to become the most extensive ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus