Sam Steele : A Biography

Name: Sam Steele
Brand: University of Alberta Press
SKU: 9781772123791
Price: 6100 KES
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ISBN: 9781772123791

by Rod Macleod

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 177212379X

ISBN-13 9781772123791

Publisher University of Alberta Press

Imprint University of Alberta Press

Country of Manufacture CA

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 29th, 2018

Print length 432 Pages

Weight 636 grams

Dimensions 15.70 x 22.80 x 2.70 cms

Product Classification: Canada Biography: historical, political & military Biography: historical, political and military

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A major book on Canada’s most storied pre-World War I figure and early Confederation history.

Sam Steele, “the man who tamed the Gold Rush,” had a high-profile public career, yet his private life has been closely protected. Sam Steele: A Biography follows Steele’s rise from farm boy in backwoods Ontario to the much-lauded Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele. Drawing on the vast Steele archive at the University of Alberta, this comprehensive biography vividly recounts some of the most significant events of the first fifty years of Canadian Confederation—including the founding of the North-West Mounted Police, the opening of the North through the Klondike, and Canada’s participation in the South African War—from the perspective of a policeman who became a military leader. Impeccably researched and accessibly written, Sam Steele is perfect for anyone interested in Canada’s early decades.

"Deeply-researched and elegantly written, this book brings alive one of the most intriguing characters of Canadian history who has been undeservedly forgotten. Macleod reminds us that the RCMP became an iconic national institution not because of decisions made in Ottawa, but because of the steady judgement and boisterous ambition of men in the field."

"Using correspondence and diaries from the Steele Collection, Rod Macleod reveals a complicated history of an individual whose career and exploits dovetailed with the initial decades of a young country and Canada’s involvement with the South African War and First World War."

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