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Best Mounted Police Stories

edited by Dick Harrison

Publisher
Lone Pine Publishing, The University of Alberta Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1978
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888640543
    Publish Date
    Jan 1978
    List Price
    $16.99

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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.

About the author

Dick Harrison is a retired Professor Emeritus from the University of Alberta. He currently resides in Sechelt, B.C.

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Editorial 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