Stanton Atkins & Dosil Publishers
The Wild Ride: A Chronicle of the North West Mounted Police 1873-1904
New Release
September 2010
BOOK DETAILS:240 pages
Over 150 illustrations,
including photographs,
ephemera, and maps.
8.5 x 9 inches
HARDCOVER: $45.00 CND
ISBN: 978-0-9809304-1-2
RELEASE: September 2010
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by Charles Wilkins
If it were fiction, nobody would believe it: mythic aboriginal chiefs, devious politicians, whisky-trading scoundrels, visionary builders, fur traders, murderers, scouts as tough as the hides they wore, men and women willing to die in their quest for gold... and an unproven force of red-coated cops on an improbable mission of their own.
The Wild Ride is their story, a brilliantly illustrated history of the Canadian West and the North West Mounted Police - from the throes of Confederation and the Red River Rebellion, through the founding of the Mounties in 1873, to the heroics of the Klondike Gold Rush; all of it played out on a vast landscape as hostile as any, and every bit as alluring.
The Wild Ride draws on the letters, diaries and memoirs of those who lived this epic period of Canadian history, bringing their story vividly to life with a captivating collection of photos, drawings and maps. It is a book as memorable, colourful and dramatic as the compelling events it records.
