"'Buffalo!' The old horseman struggled to his feet and boldly began his toast with glass held high, his weather-worn visage conspicuous in the room full of young men. Then 'BUFFALO,' this time more quietly. Then, after a long pause, 'buffalo,' almost in a whisper..."
Thus Garrett Wilson introduces his epic account of the 1870s, a decade that saw unprecedented changes come to the Great Plains of North America: famine, fire, and pestilence--the disappearance of the buffalo--the last stand of the Sioux and the Metis--the Boundary Survey and the "March West" of the North-West Mounted Police--men like Dumont, Walsh, Macleod, and Sitting Bull--all encompassed within a brief 10 years, which saw the disappearance of the Old West, and the birth of a new society.
Told with wit, sensitivity, and panache, Frontier Farewell explodes old myths and brings new perspectives to this pivotal era in the development of the North American West.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 525
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Imprint: University of Regina Press
Publication Date:
08 December 2014
Trim Size: 9.02 X 6.02 in
ISBN: 9780889773615
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-), HISTORY / Canada / General
" "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"
Garrett Wilson is a Regina lawyer turned author. His first book, Deny, Deny, Deny, the best-selling account of the Colin Thatcher trial, was followed by Diefenbaker for the Defence, a biography of the legal career of the Saskatchewan lawyer who became Prime Minister. Then came Guilty Addictions, a mystery that delved deeply into the politics of Saskatchewan. In 2007, he published Frontier Farewell, winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Scholarly Writing.
