Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
March 2000
Abstract
From its creation in 1873 until the end of the First World War, when it was given Dominion- wide responsibilities, the North West Mounted Police primarily enforced the law on the Canadian Prairies and in the Canadian North. By 1904, its reputation as an effective frontier Force was so positive it was designated the Royal North West Mounted Police. Until the 1970s, historical writing on the Force tended toward the antiquarian and overly reverential; since then it has become more searching. In this volume William M. Baker draws attention to some of the best work on the Force from the past quarter century, focusing on Police activities on the Prairies before the 1920s.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 2000, pp. 163 - 164. © 2000 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska – Lincoln.