Best Mounted Police Stories

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.

ISBN	0888640544	DEWEY edition	DC21
ISBN13	9780888640543 (What's this?)	Pages	258
Publisher	University of Alberta Press	Volumes	001
Imprint	University of Alberta Press	Weight (grammes)	340
Format	Paperback	Published in	Alberta
Publication date	01 Jan 1978	Height (mm)	230
Library of Congress	PR	Width (mm)	155
DEWEY	363.20971	Academic level	General

		Acknowledgements
		Introduction: Selling a Birth-Rite for a Mass of Plottage by Dick Harrison		1
		The Taking of Fort Whoop-Up by Norma Sluman		21
		Whisky Smuggling by Bertrand Sinclair		30
		The Arrest of Wild Horse by Harwood Steele		38
		A North-West Police Party by John Mackie		48
		A Strike on the Railroad by Ralph Connor		52
		The Siege of Fort Pitt by Joseph Collins		63
		Riding West from Duck Lake by Rudy Wiebe		72
		The Lean Man by Roger Pocock		94
		The Error of the Day by Gilbert Parker		108
		The Sum-Dance in the File Hills by Frederick Niven		126
		Smoke by Z. M. Hamilton		140
		Routine Patrol by James B. Hendryx		163
		The Law Versus the Man by James Oliver Curwood		178
		We Generally Don't by G. B. Lancaster		186
		O'Brien's Doom by Joseph Gollomb		200
		The Wolfer by Wallace Stegner		217
		Main-teen Luh Droyt by Ken Mitchell		238
		The Detachment Man by H. J. MacDonald		248

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