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Chief Piapot, a great plains Chief who lived through the land grabbing 1870's, was known on the plains as a fearless warrior, diplomat, shaman, cattle rustler and horse thief. This novel offers an account of the trials and tribulations of the Assiniboine, Cree, Sioux, and Blackfoot plains Indians. It is about the coming of the Northwest Mounted Police in 1874 to the Cypress Hills, the slaughter of buffalo so great it almost lead to their extinction and the coming of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in 1881. The book gives accounts of Chief Sitting Bull and his escape to Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan, Canada after he defeated the US army at the Little Big Horn. Also, it makes mention of the friendship of Sitting Bull, Chief Piapot, and Superintendent James Marrow Walsh of the Northwest Mounted Police, who in 1874, built the fort in the Cypress Hills which was named Fort Walsh. This book does not pull any punches! It outlines Chief Piapot's revenge against the wolf hunters and whiskey traders who were responsible for the Cypress Hills Massacre. Piapot also took on the railroad and the Northwest Mounted Police.
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The author was born in 1939 on the Saskatchewan plains somewhere between a lake and a sand hill.
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- PublisherFrontier Book Corporation
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0986509604
- ISBN 13 9780986509605
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages295
- IllustratorEdmund Morris
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Chief Piapot : "I Will Stop the Train"
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. Edmund Morris (illustrator). 1ère Édition. « Chief Piapot, a great plains Chief who lived through the land grabbing 1870's, was known on the plains as a fearless warrior, diplomat, shaman, cattle rustler and horse thief. This novel offers an account of the trials and tribulations of the Assiniboine, Cree, Sioux, and Blackfoot plains Indians. It is about the coming of the Northwest Mounted Police in 1874 to the Cypress Hills, the slaughter of buffalo so great it almost lead to their extinction and the coming of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in 1881. The book gives accounts of Chief Sitting Bull and his escape to Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan, Canada after he defeated the US army at the Little Big Horn. Also, it makes mention of the friendship of Sitting Bull, Chief Piapot, and Superintendent James Marrow Walsh of the Northwest Mounted Police, who in 1874, built the fort in the Cypress Hills which was named Fort Walsh. This book does not pull any punches! It outlines Chief Piapot's revenge against the wolf hunters and whiskey traders who were responsible for the Cypress Hills Massacre. Piapot also took on the railroad and the Northwest Mounted Police.». Seller Inventory # R4922
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