Best Mounted Police Stories

Häftad, Engelska, 1978

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Beskrivning

The Mountie always gets his man. He asserts the law not by using violence but by denying it. He is a uniquely Canadian figure in the great stories of the West. Dick Harrison has collected 22 classic adventure stories by Wallace Stegner, Rudy Wiebe, Ken Mitchell, Ralph Connor, and 18 others.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1978-01-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt:360 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:266
Förlag:University of Alberta Press
ISBN:9780888640543

Utforska kategorier

Antologier inom Skönlitteratur
Biografier inom Biografier
Socialt arbete och välfärd inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Dick Harrison is a retired Professor Emeritus from the University of Alberta. He currently resides in Sechelt, B.C.

Recensioner i media

"...the changing image of the Mountie and the fate of Mountie fiction can tell us much about Canadian popular culture, the law, the changing West and the individual hero." Montreal Gazette

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Selling a Birth-Rite for a Mass of Plottage / Dick HarrisonPART ONE: The Trek West and the Early DaysThe Taking of Fort Whoop-Up / Norma SlumanWhisky Smuggling / Bertrand SinclairThe Arrest of Wild Horse / Harwood SteeleA North-West Police Party / John MackieA Strike on the Railroad / Ralph ConnorPART TWO: The North-West Rebellion and AfterThe Siege of Fort Pitt / Joseph CollinsRiding West from Duck Lake / Rudy WiebeThe Lean Man / Roger PocockThe Error of the Day / Gilbert ParkerThe Sun-Dance in the File Hills / Frederick NivenSmoke / Z.M. HamiltonPART THREE: The Gold Rush and the NorthRoutine Patrol / James B. HendryxThe Law Versus the Man / James Oliver CurwoodWe Generally Don’t / G.B. LancasterO’Brien’s Doom / Joseph GollombPART FOUR: The Twentieth CenturyThe Wolfer / Wallace StegnerMain-teen Luh Droyt / Ken MitchellThe Detachment Man / H.J. MacDonald