Full name: The Wild Frontier: More Tales from the Remarkable Past

Author: Pierre Berton Year: 1978 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780770416041 9780385661898 0770416047 0385661894

Canada's wild frontier -- a land unsettled and unknown, a land of appalling obstacles and haunting beauty -- comes to life through seven remarkable individuals, including John Jewitt, the young British seaman who became a slave to the Nootka Indians; Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, the eccentric missionary; Sam Steele, the most famous of all Mounted Policemen; and Isaac Jorges, the 17th-century priest who courted martyrdom. Many of the stories of these figures read like the wildest of fiction: Cariboo Cameron, who, after striking it rich in B.C., pickled his wife's body in alcohol and gave her three funerals; Mina Hubbard, the young widow who trekked across the unexplored heart of Labrador as an act of revenge; and Almighty Voice, the renegade Cree, who was the key figure in the last battle between white men and Aboriginals in North America. Spanning more than two centuries and four thousand miles, this book demonstrates how our frontier resembles no other and how for better and for worse it has shaped our distinctive sense of Canada. Similar books: A Short History of Canada by Desmond Morton The Museum Called Canada by Charlotte Gray The Last Spike by Pierre Berton The National Dream by Pierre Berton The Invasion of Canada by Pierre Berton Caesars of the Wilderness by Peter C. Newman My Country by Pierre Berton Merchant Princes by Peter C. Newman Company of Adventurers by Peter C. Newman The Dionne Years by Pierre Berton Flames Across the Border by Pierre Berton Bastards & Boneheads by Will Ferguson The Massey Murder by Charlotte Gray The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers Dreamers and Deceivers by Glenn Beck Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea by Daniel V. Gallery History by Adam Hart-Davis Astoria by Peter Stark