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The Bad and the Lonely

Seven Stories of the Best--and Worst--Canadian Outlaws

by (author) Martin Robin

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1976
Category
General, General, General, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888621221
    Publish Date
    Jan 1976
    List Price
    $14.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780888621214
    Publish Date
    Jan 1976
    List Price
    $45.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552772836
    Publish Date
    Feb 2008
    List Price
    $45.00

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Description

In this book Martin Robin tells seven remarkable and fascinating stories of Canadian badmen. All were heroes--or villains--in their time, and they remain popular legends today.
The stories describe figures such as Bill Miner, the charming train robber who regularly held up the CPR; Donald Morrison, the Megantic Outlaw, who eluded capture for months after being shooting a constable sent to evict his family from their farm; and Almighty Voice, a Saskatchewan Cree hunted by Mounties for feeding his family with a stolen government cow, finally brought down with artillery fire.
The Bad and the Lonely is a lucid, witty and poignant book that brings to life colourful and tragic figures from Canada's past.

About the author

MARTIN ROBIN taught political science at Simon Fraser University. He is also the author of The Company Province, a two-volume history of British Columbia, and a book on the Canadian labour movement.

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