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Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police By: R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth (1858-1934) |
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POLICING THE PLAINS BEING THE REAL LIFE RECORD OF THE FAMOUS
ROYAL NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE By R. G. MACBETH, M.A., Author of "The
Romance of Western Canada." WITH ILLUSTRATIONS HODDER AND STOUGHTON, LTD.
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO MCMXXI
CONTENTS
I A GREAT TRADITION 7
II ENTER THE MOUNTED POLICE 25
III MOBILIZING 33
IV THE AMAZING MARCH 48
V BUSINESS IN THE LAND OF INDIANS 57
VI HANDLING AMERICAN INDIANS 78
VII THE IRON HORSES 93
VIII RIEL AGAIN 106
IX RECONSTRUCTION 126
X CHANGING SCENERY 141
XI IN THE GOLD COUNTRY 153
XII STIRRING DAYS ABROAD AND AT HOME 175
XIII MODESTY AND EFFECTIVENESS 206
XIV ON LAND AND SEA 233
XV GLORY AND TRAGEDY IN THE NORTH 255
XVI STRIKING INCIDENTS 266
XVII THE GREAT WAR PERIOD 281
XVIII GREAT TRADITIONS UPHELD 297
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Mounted Police Rounding Up Horse Thieves ( Frontispiece )
Sir John A. Macdonald 16
Hon. Alexander Mackenzie 16
Hudson Bay: R.N.W.M. Police with Dogs 17
Major General Sir A. C. Macdonnell, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. 32
Major General Sir Samuel B. Steele, K.C.B., etc. 32
Superintendent A. H. Griesbach 33
Inspector J. M. Walsh 33
Commissioner A. G. Irvine 48
Commissioner George A. French 48
Commissioner James F. Macleod 49
Commissioner Lawrence W. Herchmer 49
Sitting Bull 64
Colonel James Walker 65
Colonel T. A. Wroughton 112
Lieut. Col. Aylesworth Bowen Perry, C.M.G. 112
Colonel Cortlandt Starnes 113
R.N.W.M. Police Wood Camp, Churchill River 113
Indian Tepee 128
Dog Train 129
Yukon Rush: Summit, Chilcoot Pass 144
Group of Indian Children on Prairie 145
Chilcoot Pass: R.N.W.M. Police and Custom House 160
Klondyke Rush: Squaw Rapids, between Canyon and 161
White Horse Rapids, 1898
Supt. Constantine in Winter Uniform on the Yukon 176
Piegan Indians at Sun Dance 177
Rev. R. G. Macbeth, M.A. 192
Group, R.N.W.M. Police, Tagish Post, Yukon 193
Fort Selkirk, Yukon 208
Esquimaux Family 209
Coronation Contingent, London, 1911 224
Indians Receiving Treaty Payment on Prairie 224
Fort Fitzgerald, Athabasca 225
Ice bound Government Schooner 225
Herschell Island, Yukon Territory 240
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