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First and foremost, my thanks to my husband, Hank Bayle, for enthusiastic help with my research. Thanks also to Neil Colvin for the loan of his five-volume set of The Collected Writings of Louis Riel and to Lois Patterson for sharing books, documents, and news clippings concerning the Canadian military during the North-West Rebellion.

I also owe thanks to the impressive Hudson’s Bay Archives in Winnipeg for the detailed accounts of the lives of some of those involved in the events leading to the 1885 conflict. And I certainly must express my appreciation for the wealth of information at Saskatchewan’s Duck Lake Historical Museum, and also for the splendid reconstruction of the Fort Carlton Hudson’s Bay trading post. Thanks, too, to the friendly staff in Calgary’s Glenbow Museum for their help in locating pictures of the players in the bitter struggle at Batoche.

This book would not have been written were it not for the impressive Batoche National Historic Park. It is a quiet landscape of rolling hills covered with dry, waving grass where wagon ruts still mark the Carlton Trail and indentations pit the earth where desperate men defended their land. The information centre there is superb, and the staff are friendly and helpful.