Recollections and Reminiscences: A Memoir
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
F.A.D. Bourke
Saskatchewan History, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring, 1982, pp. 55-56
Description
Memoir of Fredrick Arthur Deane Bourke who joined the NWMP in 1877 and was posted at Fort Walsh, and later in Battleford; Bourke retired from the police force and with a partner bought 80 head of cattle and took up cattle ranching. Notes that in 1877 the buffalo were plentiful and after that they vanished from the plain.
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 55.