Frontier Farewell: The 1870s and the End of the Old West

"Gracefully written, fully and meticulously researched." — Sharon Butala, author of The Perfection of the Morning

"Frontier Farewell offers new perspectives on everything from the transfer of Rupert's Land to Canada, the Manitoba Resistance of 1869-70, and the Numbered Treaties of the 1870s, to the surveys of the Canadian Prairies, the coming of the North-West Mounted Police, and the fallout from the Battle of the Little Big Horn." — Ted Binnema, Department of History, University of Northern British Columbia

"Frontier Farewell has energy and glory." — The StarPhoenix

"Wilson...writes with great elegance and clarity." — James A. Hanson, Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly

Frontier Farewell "ends with the disastrous bloodletting—the gruesome unwinding of a two-hundred-year experiment." — Lionel Hughes, Prairies North