| Description |
1 online resource |
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Part One: The Life of Robert Armstrong. Chapter One: Before Robert Armstrong -- Chapter Two: Youth to 1885 -- Chapter Three: 1885 -- Chapter Four: 1885-1940 -- Part Two: Robert Armstrong's Memoir -- Appendices |
| Summary |
"Born the son of a Wyandot Chief in Kansas in 1849, Irvin Mudeater was one of the last great frontiersmen of the American West. Hired to run wagon trains to Santa Fe, Mudeater fought off "Indian attacks", was caught up in the Civil War, drove a stagecoach, and lived as a plainsman on the lawless frontier. Most of all, he was a buffalo hunter--killing 126 head in just one day. In 1882, Mudeater moved to Canada, adopted the name Robert Armstrong, and portrayed himself as white. Shortly after the fall of Batoche, he played the lead role in bringing the fugitive Métis leader, Louis Riel, into custody. John D. Pihach attempts to resolve the opposing stories of Riel's surrender/capture, scrutinizes the sensational incidents in Armstrong/Mudeater's life, and, with the inclusion of Mudeater's unpublished memoir, allows this consummate storyteller to speak in his own voice."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Riel, Louis, 1844-1885.
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Mudeater, Irvin, 1849-1940.
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Riel, Louis, 1844-1885 fast |
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Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
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Northwest Resistance, Canada, 1885 -- Scouts and scouting
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Wyandot Indians -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
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HISTORY -- North America.
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Scouting (Reconnaissance)
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Wyandot Indians
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Canada, Western -- Biography
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West (U.S.) -- Biography
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Western Canada
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West United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780889774629 |
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0889774625 |
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