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By Garrett Wilson
“Gracefully written, fully and meticulously researched. ” — Sharon Butala, author of The Perfection of the Morning
“Frontier Farewell offers new perspectives on everything from the transfer of Rupert’s Land to Canada, the Manitoba Resistance of 1869-70, and the Numbered Treaties of the 1870s, to the surveys of the Canadian Prairies, the coming of the North-West Mounted Police, and the fallout from the Battle of the Little Big Horn. ” — Ted Binnema, Department of History, University of Northern British Columbia
“Frontier Farewell has energy and glory. ” — The StarPhoenix
“Wilson. ..writes with great elegance and clarity. ” — James A. Hanson, Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly
Frontier Farewell “ends with the disastrous bloodletting–the gruesome unwinding of a two-hundred-year experiment. ” — Lionel Hughes, Prairies North
