Book
Charcoal's world
Western Producer Prairie Books • Saskatoon • Published In 1978 • Pages:
By: Dempsey, Hugh Aylmer.
Abstract
This is a moving biographical narrative of Charcoal, a Blood Indian, as told to Hugh Dempsey by native American informants in conjunction with the data obtained from the Public Archives of Canada and the Horace Harvey Papers (MG-30). The document describes Charcoal's killing of his wife's lover, his flight from the reservation, the relentless pursuit of the fugitive by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police under the leadership of Major Samuel B. Steele, the many hardships encountered by Charcoal in the Canadian wilderness, the killing of one of the pursuing police officers by Charcoal, and his eventual capture (as the result of the betrayal of his brothers), trial, and execution. Since the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the time of the events described here were responsible for keeping law and order on the reservation data relevant to their policing action in the pursuit and capture of Charcoal has been indexed for category 657.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1999
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Historian
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1997
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 1850s-1907
- Coverage Place
- Blood Indians, southern Alberta, Canada
- Notes
- Hugh A. Dempsey
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-173) and index
- LCCN
- 79317645
- LCSH
- Siksika Indians