Forty Years in Canada: Sam Steele North-West Mounted Police
by Steele, Samuel Benfield
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1552671429
- ISBN 13
- 9781552671429
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Prospero Books. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2000. Facsimile. Hardcover. 1552671429 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 428 pages; "Samuel Benfield Steele was born Orillia, Ontario, in 1851. Orphaned in his early teens. he joined the Canadian Militia, fought against the Fenians, and was on the Red River Expedition against Louis Riel's Metis. He joined the new North-West Mounted Police and took part in the epic march west to Fort Edmonton. In his career with the NWMP he was involved in many of the historic episodes of the Canadian West - the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the North-West Rebellion of 1885, the Gold Rush of 1898... From 1899 to 1901 he fought in the South African War and spent the next five years in the South African Constabulary, returnining to Canada in 1907 (where this autobiography ends). (jacket blurb) .
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- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21529
- Title
- Forty Years in Canada: Sam Steele North-West Mounted Police
- Author
- Steele, Samuel Benfield
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- Facsimile
- ISBN 10
- 1552671429
- ISBN 13
- 9781552671429
- Publisher
- Prospero Books
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- 1552671429, RNWMP, Fort Edmonton, sam Steele
- Bookseller catalogs
- Law; Law & True Crime;
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Ainsworth Books
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