The great adventure
Subtitle: how the Mounties conquered the West
By: David Cruise and Alison Griffiths.
Contributors: Griffiths, Alison, 1953-
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: A Wyatt Book for St. Martin's Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Royal Canadian Mounted Police -- History -- 19th century.; Whiskey industry -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.; Indians of North America -- Alcohol use -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890.
Description: In 1873, an almost impossible mission was accomplished by an improbable posse of recruits. With little training and less experience, 150 men embarked upon a nine-hundred-mile march from civilized Toronto to a trading post at the heart of the wild frontier. Their goal: to penetrate Indian territory, stamp out nefarious whiskey trafficking, and bring order to a lawless land. What they encountered was horrifying and glorious in ways they could never have imagined.

Official histories of the march have been largely based on the writings of the first commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and are colored accordingly. David Cruise and Alison Griffiths present an entirely different perspective of this extraordinary event, using such primary sources as diaries and memoirs by the "Mounties" themselves, contemporary newspaper accounts, and other recently discovered materials.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-388) and index.