The Wild Frontier: More Tales from the Remarkable Past-Fast Shipping

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Canada’s wild frontier—a land unsettled and unknown, a land of appalling obstaclesand haunting beauty—comes to life through seven remarkable individuals, includingJohn Jewitt, the young British seaman who became a slave to the Nootka Indians; Grenfell, the eccentric missionary; Sam Steele, the most famous of all MountedPolicemen; and Isaac Jorges, the 17th-century priest who courted martyrdom. Manyof the stories of these figures read like the wildest of fiction: Cariboo Cameron,who, after striking it rich in B.C., pickled his wife’s body in alcohol and gaveher three funerals; Mina Hubbard, the young widow who trekked across the unexploredheart of Labrador as an act of revenge; and Almighty Voice, the renegade Cree, whowas the key figure in the last battle between white men and Aboriginals in NorthAmerica.

Spanning more than two centuries and four thousand miles, this book demonstrateshow our frontier resembles no other and how for better and for worse it has shapedour distinctive sense of Canada.