Howard tells the dramatic stow of the Metis people's valiant struggles to establish a homeland on the plains along the United States-Canada border. Descendants of fur traders and Indians, the Metis mounted insurrections against the Canadian government in 1869-70 and 1885 led by the messianic Louis Riel.
"This is a book about a lot of things, from the dried buffalo bones that littered the plains in the nineties to the Federal Reserve Policy that dried the state up in the twenties. It is about John Wesley Powell, the prophet honored too late...the copper kings and their brazen capers in business and politics...It deals with past, present, and ...
With passion and verve, Howard narrates the tragic story of Louis Riel, the Metis people, and their struggle for a homeland on the plains of the U.S.-Canada border.
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