Kootenai Brown: The Unknown Frontiersman by Rodney, William - 2002

Surry, BC: Heritage House Publishing. Very Good. 2002. Second Edition. Trade Paperback. Creasing to front cover; inventory dot on top of text block . No spine crease. Map of Northwest Territories. Bibliography, illustrated, index.. 256 pages. Brown's remarkably adventurous life in Canada began in BC in 1862 during the Cariboo gold rush. He later became a BC policeman, Pony Express rider, buffalo hunter, Head Scout for the Rocky Mountain Rangers during the 1885 Riel Rebellion and a conservationist who fought to establish Waterton Lakes National Park. Here he is buried, this region of lakes and mountains his magnificent memorial. Possibly BC's greatest frontiersman, nevertheless, in Canada he is virtually unknown. By contrast, if Kootenai had lived in the US he would be as familiar as Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone. .