Frontier Farewell: The 1870s and the End of the Old West (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780889773615)

"Gracefully written, fully and meticulously researched." -- Sharon Butala, author of The Perfection of the Morning

"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." -- Ted Binnema, Department of History, University of Northern British Columbia

"Frontier Farewell has energy and glory." -- The StarPhoenix

"Wilson...writes with great elegance and clarity." -- James A. Hanson, Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly

Frontier Farewell "ends with the disastrous bloodletting--the gruesome unwinding of a two-hundred-year experiment." -- Lionel Hughes, Prairies North

Author: Garrett Wilson
ISBN-10: 0889773610
ISBN-13: 9780889773615
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Language: English
Published: 12/08/2014
Pages: 525
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 11/26/2014