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The Mounties: Tales of Adventure and Danger from the Early Days

Elle Andra-Warner

Start date: June 24, 2018

Finish date: June 26, 2018

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I have only seen “Amazing Stories” preceding 2010 but Altitude Publishing generated a plethora of these. I love absorbing important details and personages in easy doses. From Elle Andra-Warner in 2004, “The Mounties: Tales Of Adventure And Danger From The Early Days” summarizes the formative hundred years of our mounted police. I enjoyed * I take my writing seriously and consider comments the reward. Please do not leave “like button” clicks, until you are accompanying them with remarks for me. *

I have only seen “Amazing Stories” preceding 2010 but Altitude Publishing generated a plethora of these. I love absorbing important details and personages in easy doses. From Elle Andra-Warner in 2004, “The Mounties: Tales Of Adventure And Danger From The Early Days” summarizes the formative hundred years of our mounted police. I enjoyed the first quarter immeasurably! I was proud to learn how importantly my home, Manitoba, featured in Canada's formation, let alone the North West Mounted Police! Our pivotal background unrolled quite a story.

Law was needed at Fort Whoop-Up, which I knew from the story of “The Lost Lemon Mine”, between Saskatchewan and Alberta. Scamming Aboriginals with lethal “fire water” was serious. At this chapter, cohesive history unglued into repetitive snippets; seemingly picked for shock factor. I would choose happy outcomes. Admiration of an officer's wife, for example, ended in her death. Police horses were brought to a war overseas.... and left to serve there. Why incorporate such numerous regretful outcomes? We became inundated with the words “bitterly cold” and “exhausted”, how far Mounties travelled, and worse; eating horses or dogs. Summarizing such things once would suffice.

I enjoyed Elle's story mode and needed a tied-in ending. I lack enlightenment about any basic details, such as when their name changed from North West Mounted Police to Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Our generation knows them as “the RCMP”. I think their base is in Alberta now. When and why did it change from Lower Fort Garry, Manitoba? Researchers have to target material for focused treatises like this and create a flow; even if it means snipping a who's who of a subject. Variety and inspiration should trump a list of events: ensuring that they aren't rattled-off handfuls of facts. Room needs to be made for lightness, certainly in conclusion. ...more

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