At the end of the nineteenth century, Canada’s prairies were still sparsely populated. Crimes such as horse theft, random murders, and prison escapes were the order of the day, and the North West Mounted Police continued to rely on their horses, their contacts, and their wits to apprehend the culprits. By the mid-1930s, a sea change in technology and police science had changed the game. Major advances in transportation, communications, and sleuthing techniques made crime-solving a new art—but the criminals also had access to the new ways.
The US had Bonnie and Clyde, and John Dillinger, but Canada had its fair share of bad apples committing equally vicious crimes: a serial rapist and strangler who most often chose female proprietors of rooming houses as his victims; a father-and-son murder team, tracked by an enterprising detective all the way to Kentucky; and a group of murderous youths who sparked a manhunt across two provinces and a bloody shootout resulting in the deaths of four policemen. These stories offer an intriguing look at the skill, determination, and bravery of Prairie law enforcers as they risked their all to bring ruthless outlaws to justice.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 140) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 364.1092/2712
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Repackaged from: Outlaws & lawmen of Western Canada Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cnp--
- ISBN
- 9781772030280 9781772030266
- LCCN
- HV6805
- LCCN Item number
- L383 2015eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (143 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00930097 (OCoLC)909411977 (CaOOCEL)449165
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Frontier justice on the Canadian Prairies, 1896-1935
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 4
- Publisher’s Note 5
- Prologue 6
- Contents 4
- Map 9
- Chapter 1: The Murder of Sergeant Wilde 10
- Chapter 2: Ernest Cashel—American Desperado 33
- Chapter 3: Alberta’s Frontier Detective 42
- Chapter 4: Saskatchewan’s Midnight Massacre 56
- Chapter 5: Emperor Pic and the Girl in a Scarlet Tam 69
- Chapter 6: The Strangler Who Terrified the Prairies 90
- Chapter 7: The Rifle that Hanged Two Killers 109
- Chapter 8: When Guns Blazed at Banff 127
- Selected Bibliography 141
- List of Authors 141
- Index 142
- About the Editor 145
