The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself Nippissing it has contributed such icons

it has contributed such icons of the public consciousness as the Klondike Gold Rush

Written in accessible

a Métis scholar

the second book of the Misewa Saga

The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself Nippissing it has contributed such iconsWith an abundance of buffalo, other game, and lodge pole pine, the hills straddling the Alberta Saskatchewan United States border were a natural gathering point for First Nations and Mtis peoples. Their presence drew the Hudson Bay Company and American free traders, whiskey traders, and wolfers, resulting in a clash of cultures culminating in the 1873 Cypress Hills massacre, an armed ambush of a Nakoda camp by a group of drunken wolfers and whiskey