Best Mounted Police Stories

Edited by Dick Harrison
Categories: Literature & Language Studies, Canadian Literature
Publisher: Lone Pine Publishing, University of Alberta Press
Paperback : 9780888640543, 266 pages, January 1978

Description

The Mountie always gets his man. He asserts the law not by using violence but by denying it. He is a uniquely Canadian figure in the great stories of the West. Dick Harrison has collected 22 classic adventure stories by Wallace Stegner, Rudy Wiebe, Ken Mitchell, Ralph Connor, and 18 others.

Reviews

"...the changing image of the Mountie and the fate of Mountie fiction can tell us much about Canadian popular culture, the law, the changing West and the individual hero." Montreal Gazette