Welcome to the March edition of Book Tuesday.
Today we are featuring a biography of one of Western Canada's most famous Frontiersmen
Enjoy
Victorian Society of Alberta
Kootenai Brown
Canada's Unknown Frontiersmen.
by William Rodney
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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