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This book was a treasure I found by accident while researching for my current project. It is based on the stories of one of the last buffalo hunters and fur traders of the prairies, Norbert Welsh. He tells his story to Mary in 1931 when he is 87 and blind. His stories will curl your hair. How the west was settled has a whole new perspective thanks to his honest, don't sugar coat it style. Learn how to take down a buffalo, cut off its head, keep the tongue for dinner, skin the pelt so your wife can stretch it and clean it and transform it into a supple coat, or blanket, then butcher the meat and preserve half of it for your family for the winter, give the other half to your wife and family to cut into thin strips, dry, pulverize, mix with the boiled fat of the…
The Last Buffalo Hunter is one of the few surviving oral accounts of the old North-West during the late nineteenth century, providing a valuable record of the spirit and romance of a way of life that ended with the demise of the once-vast buffalo herds.
Mary Weekes first met Norbert Welsh - whose colorful life story is told here in his own words - in 1931 when he was eighty-seven. She was enthralled by this blind old man who had "a memory crowded with stories that belonged to the making of the West." He agreed to let her write about…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
I loved this book. It is an academic book, but it is so insightful. This is a retelling of the story of Canada's executed leader of the Metis People, Louis Riel. He is now on our silver dollar because it only took us a couple of generations to realize he was and is a national treasure. There are zillions of books about this man's story. But this one is different. It does not focus on his execution but on his early life. We learn he was sent to Montreal from the prairies and becomes a highly educated man, a debater, a writer, a young man who falls in love and is spurned because of his mixed ancestry. A man who can speak and write in several languages. A man who can challenge and stand up to a challenge. He is a man with one foot in the sophisticated world of…
Louis Riel (1844-1885) was an iconic figure in Canadian history best known for his roles in the Red River Resistance of 1869 and the Northwest Resistance of 1885. A political leader of the Metis people of the Canadian Prairies, Riel is often portrayed as a rebel. Reconstructing his experiences in the Northwest, Quebec, and the worlds in between, Max Hamon revisits Riel's life through his own eyes, illuminating how he and the Metis were much more involved in state-making than historians have previously acknowledged. Questioning the drama of resistance, The Audacity of His Enterprise highlights Riel's part in the negotiations,…
