Law Marches West

Gloucestershire, UK: Denny Publishing. Very Good/Very Good. 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 190368000X Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Illustrations. 300 pages clean and tight. In 1874 the North-West Mounted Police embarked on an epic march across Canada - from Winnipeg to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains - 1,000 miles over plains and prairies inhabited only by semi-civilised Indian tribes and vast herds of buffalo. This was the beginning of the legend of the Mounties. A leading figure on this historic march was Sir Cecil E. Denny, who went to farm in America in his teens, was lured by his love of adventure across the border and commissioned as a captain in the NWMP He and his men were among the very few white inhabitants of Western Canada at the time. First published in 1939, The Law Marches West is a fascinating first-hand account of how the Mounties brought law and order to this then wild place; of how they gained the respect of the Indian tribes. It is a story of the enterprise, guts and rugged determination of a small group of men who set out to tame this huge wilderness, and who achieved their goal. It is a tale littered with blizzards and bootlegging, horse-rustling and gold digging; of men who dug their trenches and built their stockades in an empty land where great cities now stand. Above all, it is a tale full of the romance of pioneering history. .