Kootenai Brown: The Unknown Frontiersman
- ISBN-10
- 1894384458
- ISBN-13
- 9781894384452
- Category
- Alberta
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Heritage House Publishing
- Author
- William Rodney
Description
Brown's remarkably adventurous life in Canada began in BC in 1862 during the Cariboo gold rush. He later became a BC policeman, Pony Express rider, buffalo hunter, Head Scout for the Rocky Mountain Rangers during the 1885 Riel Rebellion and a conservationist who fought to establish Waterton Lakes National Park. Here he is buried, this region of lakes and mountains his magnificent memorial. Possibly BC's greatest frontiersman, nevertheless, in Canada he is virtually unknown. By contrast, if Kootenai had lived in the US he would be as familiar as Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone.
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