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Prairie Warships: River Navigation in the Northwest Rebellion by Gordon E. Tolton. Calgary: Heritage House, 336 pp., illus., maps, paper, $26.95.
This book skilfully brings together two associated but distinct features of western history. One is the development of steamboats on western waterways, and the second is the 1885 North-West Rebellion. They come together when the boats were used as part of the military campaign against the Metis.
The author tells of steamboats being introduced to ...