Frontier Farewell
:The 1870s and the End of the Old West

By Garrett Wilson ISBN: 9780889771932 format: Paperback series: Trade Books based in Scholorship # 21 pages: 525 publisher: CPRC pub. date: 2007-10-04

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This book tells the story of the Canadian West from the first explorers in the eighteenth century to the year the Sioux chief, Sitting Bull, surrendered to the Americans and the Blackfoot chief, Crowfoot, led his starving people back to Canada, both in 1881, and which Garrett Wilson designates as “the end of the Old West.” The story of these early days of the settlement of the Canadian West is here in its entirety—treaties and agreements, disagreements and controversies, ignoble motives and noble ones, along with dates, short biographies of the famous and the not-so-famous, births and deaths, letters, reports, speeches and anecdotes, and all the details in between. Wilson has pursued not just the familiar narrative, but wherever written histories have faltered, he has sought information, no matter how buried or obscure, and filled in the gaps, so that the reader cannot fail to be surprised at and also riveted by this original and fascinating, richer and more complete version of our history. The story he has so carefully and meticulously documented here is not merely the story of Europeans, nor of the First Nations people, but of how their lives and their needs and desires worked together and against each other at each turn in Western history, ending, tragically and shamefully with the impoverishment and dispossession of the first people of the West, even as the European settlement was made possible and would soon burgeon and prosper.

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