Frontier Farewell: The 1870s and the End of the Old West

Gracefully written, fully and meticulously researched. – Sharon Butala, author of The Perfection of the Morning

Frontier Farewell offers new perspectives on everything from the transfer of Rupert’s Land to Canada, the Manitoba Resistance of 1869-70, and the Numbered Treaties of the 1870s, to the surveys of the Canadian Prairies, the coming of the North-West Mounted Police, and the fallout from the Battle of the Little Big Horn. – Ted Binnema, Department of History, University of Northern British Columbia
Frontier Farewell has energy and glory. – The StarPhoenix

Wilson…writes with great elegance and clarity. – James A. Hanson, Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly
Frontier Farewell ends with the disastrous bloodletting–the gruesome unwinding of a two-hundred-year experiment. – Lionel Hughes, Prairies North