1L Jl L V T T, iT 7 J 0 i t Tt r - - - x THE PLAINS ADVENTURES AND ROMANCE WITH THE NORTH-WEST MOUNTED POLICE 1873-1910 BY A. L. HAYDON ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS, MAPS, AND DIAGRAMS CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG CO. LONDON ANDREW MELROSE 1910 TO THE COMPTROLLER THE COMMISSIONER THE ASSISTANT-COMMISSIONERS AND TO ALL THE OIHEB OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE ROYAL NORTH-WEST MOUNTED POLICE IN WHOLE-HEARTED ADMIRATION PREFACE TO have had the opportunity of writing the record of the Royal North-West Mounted Police is a great satisfaction and pleasure to me. This fine force, which has maintained the best tradition of the British race in doing its work silently, unostentatiously, and efficiently, has not received its full measure of recognition at the hands of the public. It is a characteristic of the Rider of the Plains that he does not waste words upon his deeds to this is due the general ignorance of his solid achievements. He has a manly aversion to the sentimentality that marks most of the...

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