The Mounties March West: The Epic Trek and Early Adventures of the Mounted Police

David W. Leonard is the project historian (Northern Alberta) in the
Historic Sites and Archives Service, Alberta Community Development. He
is the author of Delayed Frontier: The Peace River Country to 1909 and
co-author of The Lure of the Peace River Coun

This fourth volume in the Legends Series is about the creation of the
North-West Mounted Police, their epic march west in 1874, and several of
their more noteworthy adventures in southern Alberta involving the end
of whiskey trade and the establishment of a degree of trust with the
Blackfoot. The stories have been told many times, and nothing new is
added except some imagined dialogue between the players. The dialogue
has presumably been inserted to bring life to the narrative. Most of the
photos have been seen many times, although the same may not be true for
the illustrations by Henri Julien, the correspondent and artist who
accompanied the Mounties in 1874 on behalf of the Canadian Illustrated
News. The quotations have not been cited in detail, the bibliography is
limited to 14 published sources, and there is no index. The book is
intended for a general audience.