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R. G. MacBeth. Policing the Plains
Policing the Plains
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
A GREAT TRADITION
The Wide Westland
CHAPTER II
ENTER THE MOUNTED POLICE
CHAPTER III
MOBILIZING
CHAPTER IV
THE AMAZING MARCH
CHAPTER V
BUSINESS IN THE LAND OF INDIANS
CHAPTER VI
HANDLING AMERICAN INDIANS
CHAPTER VII
THE IRON HORSES
CHAPTER VIII
RIEL AGAIN
CHAPTER IX
RECONSTRUCTION
CHAPTER X
CHANGING SCENERY
CHAPTER XI
IN THE GOLD COUNTRY
CHAPTER XII
STIRRING DAYS ABROAD AND AT HOME
CHAPTER XIII
MODESTY AND EFFECTIVENESS
CHAPTER XIV
ON LAND AND SEA
CHAPTER XV
GLORY AND TRAGEDY IN THE NORTH
CHAPTER XVI
STRIKING INCIDENTS
CHAPTER XVII
THE GREAT WAR PERIOD
CHAPTER XVIII
GREAT TRADITIONS UPHELD
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R. G. MacBeth
Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police
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Communication was difficult, but the news of these events of frightfulness percolated through to Ottawa and the order went out in September, 1873, that officers already appointed should proceed to recruit in the Eastern Provinces and rush some part of the force to the far West, so as to be on the ground by the next spring. The principal recruiting officer seems to have been Inspector James Morrow Walsh, who became one of the noted men of the Force in later years. It is a somewhat remarkable coincidence and a decided testimony to the directness with which the Mounted Police when organized struck at the very heart of the lawlessness in the West, that Fort Walsh, called after this recruiting Inspector, was built as a Police post not many months later practically on "The Massacre Ground" in the Cypress Hills country. That Fort was a direct and visible challenge to every outlaw, white or red, who expected to have his own way in British territory.
We shall meet Walsh from time to time in this story and his name simply occurs here as one of the earliest recruiting officers. I knew him at different stages in his career, but most particularly when he had retired from the Force and entered the coal business in Winnipeg. Later on he was the Civil Governor of the Yukon Territory. Clean-cut in figure, athletic, wiry and always faultlessly dressed, Walsh was a good-looking type and bore in his carriage the unmistakable stamp of his cavalry training. In Winnipeg he was popularly known as the man who had tamed Sitting Bull, the redoubtable Sioux of Custer Massacre fame, but others of the Police also had a hand, as we shall see, in that extraordinary experience.
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