The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself by Hildebrandt, Walter

The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781895830309)

Vendor: Walter Hildebrandt
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Format: Paperback
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The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself by Hildebrandt, Walter

The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself

$27.50
The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself by Hildebrandt, Walter

The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself

$27.50
Format: Paperback
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With an abundance of buffalo, other game, and lodge pole pine, the hills straddling the Alberta/Saskatchewan/United States border were a natural gathering point for First Nations and M騁is peoples. Their presence drew the Hudson Bay Company and American free traders, whiskey traders, and wolfers, resulting in a clash of cultures culminating in the 1873 Cypress Hills massacre, an armed ambush of a Nakoda camp by a group of drunken wolfers and whiskey traders. This event brought the Northwest Mounted Police to maintain peace in the west, and led to the creation of Fort Walsh, today a national historic site. Hildebrandt and Hubner uncover the history, stories, and people to establish a historical narrative of this significant region.

Author: Walter Hildebrandt
ISBN-10: 1895830303
ISBN-13: 9781895830309
Publisher: Purich Pub.
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2007
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
By Walter Hildebrandt
By Walter Hildebrandt
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Walter Hildebrandt is an established author, publisher, and historical researcher. Brian Hubner is a writer, and an archivist with the University of Manitoba. Both have worked at Fort Walsh National Historic Site.

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