Table of Contents

Policemen for the Lawless Land; March of the Mounties; Fort Whoop-up and a Surprise; Building Fort Macleod; On the Trail of the Whiskey Traders; Snow for Blankets, Buffalo for Company; Building Fort Walsh and Fort Calgary; Join Us on the Warpath; The Blackfoot Treaty of 1877; After the Custer Massacre; First Mountie to be Murdered; Death in the Belly River; Confrontation During CPR Construction; Indians in a Changing West; The Northwest Rebellion; Keeping Peace During the Rebellion; Rapid Development in the Northwest; Epilogue.

About the Author

Cecil Denny served as the police magistrate at Fort Steele in southeastern British Columbia during the construction of the Crow's Nest Railway in the late 1890s. He was an integral figure in the development of Western Canadian policing. Formerly nicknamed "Texas Jack" for his yarns about travelling in the United States as a remittance man, Sir Cecil Denny went on to be Alberta's chief archivist from 1922 to 1927. He wrote about the "taming" of the west in his books, which recount (and glorify) the achievements of North West Mounted Police Officers such as himself who journeyed 1,300 kilometres to provide law and order between Winnipeg and the Rocky Mountains. Denny was co-founder of forts Macleod and Calgary, as well as an Honorary Chieftain of the Blackfoot Nation. Denny resigned from the force in 1882. He was subsequently an Indian agent, a fire ranger in the Athabasca and Lac La Biche areas and leader of a NW