Great Adventure: How the Mounties Conquered the West

by Alison Griffiths, David Cruise, Alison Cruise, David & Griffiths

Book Overview

In 1873, an almost impossible mission was accomplished by an improbable posse of recruits. With little training and less experience, 150 men embarked upon a nine-hundred-mile march from civilized Toronto to a trading post at the heart of the wild frontier. Their goal: to penetrate Indian territory, stamp out nefarious whiskey trafficking, and bring order to a lawless land. What they encountered was horrifying and glorious in ways they could never...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312155387
• ISBN13: 9780312155384
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Wyatt Book
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.6"