Prairie Warships: River Navigation in the Northwest Rebellion. - Gordon E. Tolton.

Paperback, 335pp., 17x25cm., ills. in b/w., in very good condition. ISBN 9781894974301.
Vancouver Heritage House 2007
The story of the Northwest Rebellion is synonymous with Metis leader Louis Riel, whose allies joined together in 1885 to face the military forces of the Canadian government, engaging in a civil war on the Canadian Prairies. A lesser known element of the story is the gripping tale of river warfare along the banks of rivers in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba.In Prairie Warships: River Navigation in the Northwest Rebellion, historian Gordon E. Tolton tells of the follies and triumphs of a small prairie war that was fought using steamboats, ferries and other river craft. This was an adveture experienced at water level by warriors and soldiers on all sides-First Nations, Metis and European settlers.Richly illustrated and thoroughly researched, Prairie Warships takes readers to an era when the frontier was under siege, when prairie towns were ports of call, when a region's lifeblood depended on transport and when the mood of the river determined the fate of a nation. [Prairie Warships: River Navigation in the Northwest Rebellion.]