CONTENTS

Author’s Note

Introduction

PART I: INSURRECTION AND EXPEDITION

1 Blawsted Fence

2 Our Special Correspondent

3 Errand of Peace

4 Two Correspondents and a Burlesque Star

PART II: THE LONG ROAD TO SHEBANDOWAN LAKE

5 Collingwood

6 Isolated Backwoodsmen

7 Camp Sault

8 Conditions on the Ground

9 Deceitful Appearances

10 Harry with the Road

11 Up the Kaministiquia

12 And They’re Off

PART III: OFF WE GO FOR RED RIVER!

13 Intellectual Characters

14 Right-of-Way

15 On to Fort Garry

16 Chief Henry Prince

17 Taking Fort Garry

PART IV: REIGN OF TERROR

18 Interregnum

A Lady’s Journal

19 Great Fear

20 No Selfish Object

21 Vintage Wolseley

22 Chinese Puzzle

23 Elzéar Goulet

24 Selkirk

25 Embedded Thereafter

Appendix 1: The Expedition Vessels

Appendix 2: The Expedition Artists

Notes

Sources

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