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In this book Martin Robin tells seven remarkable and fascinating stories of Canadian badmen. All were heroes--or villains--in their time, and they remain popular legends today.
The stories describe figures such as Bill Miner, the charming train robber who regularly held up the CPR; Donald Morrison, the Megantic Outlaw, who eluded capture for months after being shooting a constable sent to evict his family from their farm; and Almighty Voice, a Saskatchewan Cree hunted by Mounties for feeding his family with a stolen government cow, finally brought down with artillery fire.
The Bad and the Lonely is a lucid, witty and poignant book that brings to life colourful and tragic figures from Canada's past.
The stories describe figures such as Bill Miner, the charming train robber who regularly held up the CPR; Donald Morrison, the Megantic Outlaw, who eluded capture for months after being shooting a constable sent to evict his family from their farm; and Almighty Voice, a Saskatchewan Cree hunted by Mounties for feeding his family with a stolen government cow, finally brought down with artillery fire.
The Bad and the Lonely is a lucid, witty and poignant book that brings to life colourful and tragic figures from Canada's past.
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MARTIN ROBIN taught political science at Simon Fraser University. He is also the author of The Company Province, a two-volume history of British Columbia, and a book on the Canadian labour movement.
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- PublisherLorimer
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 0888621213
- ISBN 13 9780888621214
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages220
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cover Photo of Bill Miner from "The Trainman" (illustrator). First Edition First Printing. .Brown cloth with gilt on spine, tight clean and sqauare, headband, former owners name and inscription on ffep, dusty top edge, 221 pages + 16 pages of b & w plates, with maps, dust jacket has minor chipping, with light brown spots on reverse of jacket (very minor). Contents include: Bill Miner, a train robber / Donald Morrison, killer / Almighty Voice, a Cree Indian, killer / (The Black) Donnellys of Lucan, Ont. / McLean Brothers, Allan, Archie, Charlie, and Alexander Hare of B.C. / Simon Gun-a-noot / Sinnisak and Uluksak / with notes after each chapter, Any image directly beside this lisitng is the actual book and not a stock photo!. Seller Inventory # 002894
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. SUBTITLED ; `Seven Stories of the Best - and Worst - Canadian Outlaws '. 221 page crime collection . Each story begins with a map and concludes with a `sources note '. A section of b/w photographs introduces: Constable A.Lamont, Uluksak, and Sinnisak. The time range of the stories is roughly 1860 to 1915. Read more about : Lucius Warren, Shorty Dunn, C.P.R., Major George Steel, and Rhody Kennedy. Cond : Boards are brown with gilt -lettering -spine only. End-papers are white. D.J. is also white with red decoration and lettering. D.J. features a portrait of Bill Miner.D.J. has some edge wear but volume is tight, bright, square, and clean. Excellent Canadian crime-shelf reference ! ! Quote (p. 205): " Engineer Callen had no problem taking care. He made straight for the mail car, recoupled, backed up further to the stranded passenger cars, engaged again, then sped to Kamloops where the authorities were alerted and transported, by the same engineer, to the crime's scene. What followed was a ._._._. ." Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # 008953
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Book Description Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback. The author tells seven remarkable and fascinating stories of Canadian badmen. They were all heroes - or villains - in their time, and they remain popular legends. Among the seven : The life and times of Bill Miner, a train robber who came to British Columbia from the USA, and charmed children and old ladies when he wasn't stealing bags of money from the CPR. Like many outlaws, Miner was a folk hero. The story of the Megantic Outlaw, Donald Morrison, a young Scot in the Eastern Townships of Quebec whose family farm was lost to a mortgage lender. Morrison shot and killed - in self-defence, it seems - a special constable who volunteered to bring him in. For many months, he eluded police sent from Montreal with the aid and support of his fellow Scots. An account of the life and death of Almighty Voice, a Cree Indian who butchered a government cow to feed his ailing wife, and who later killed a Mountie to avoid arrest. Almighty Voice found himself cornered by a small army of Mounties in a bluff near Duck Lake, Saskatchewan, and he was pounded with shells from a cannon which the Mounties rushed in from Prince Albert. Among other stories in this book is an account of the legendary Donnellys of Lucan, Ontario and the evil McLean Brothers of B.C. Illus. + Maps and Notes. 221pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Vg+ in sl. sunned vg+ dw. Seller Inventory # 14820
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