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'Gracefully written, fully and meticulously researched.' -- Sharon Butala, author of The Perfection of the Morning ' Frontier Farewell offers new perspectives on everything from the transfer of Rupert's Land to Canada, the Manitoba Resistance of 1869-70, and the Numbered Treaties of the 1870s, to the surveys of the Canadian Prairies, the coming of the North-West Mounted Police, and the fallout from the Battle of the Little Big Horn.' -- Ted Binnema, Department of History, University of Northern British Columbia 'Frontier Farewell has energy and glory.' -- The StarPhoenix 'Wilson...writes with great elegance and clarity.' -- James A. Hanson, Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly Frontier Farewell 'ends with the disastrous bloodletting--the gruesome unwinding of a two-hundred-year experiment.' -- Lionel Hughes, Prairies North