This incident is of course based on the true historical event in 1877 when, after defeating the U.S. Army under General Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn, Sitting Bull sought refuge in Canada.
The Sioux stayed for four years in Western Canada---or what they called the Grandmother's Country, the reference meaning British Queen Victoria---until circumstances forced the Sioux back to the United States.
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Though he is my own creation, readers first met Henry Barclay in The Canadian Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, when, in 1897, Holmes and Watson encountered adventures in Canada. In the chapter entitled Murder on the C.P. R. Holmes and Watson are travelling east by train after their cross-country journey across Canada and meet Barclay of the NWMP. A passenger is mysteriously murdered and the detectives join forces to solve it.
In my second Sherlock Holmes book, Cold-Hearted Murder, Holmes encounters a series of murders in London that has its origins during the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territories. Barclay is stationed in the Yukon at the time and plays an integral part in the story.
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The first all-western pulp, Street and Smith's Western Story Magazine was first released in 1919 and lasted for thirty years. Western Story Magazine would face stiff competition in the 1920s & 30s when magazines such as Wild West Weekly started publishing more violent stories.
Dozens of other western pulp magazines appeared around this time, such as Lariat, Texas Rangers, Thrilling Ranch Stories, and a plethora of titles with the word West or Western in them.
Complete Northwest Novel Magazine (1935-1940) typically carried a red-coated mounted policeman on the cover. The magazine was published in New York.
To help commemorate the auspicious occasion my latest book Barclay of the Mounted has just been published.
Barclay of the Mounted is the memoir of a young man who, looking for adventure and glory, joins the newly formed North-West Mounted Police in 1874. A bit naive and idealistic, Henry Barclay, a native of Toronto, travels west "... to keep the peace and uphold the right of all."
Though he is a peace-keeper in late 19-century Western Canada, Barclay seldom uses his gun, but rather in the typical Canadian fashion, he uses wit and reason. As he states in an early adventure: "I had faced death twice in as many days, and neither time did I feel the need to draw my long-barrelled Deane and Adams revolver."
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Barclay of the Mounted is the memoir of a young man who, looking for adventure and glory, joins the newly form North-West Mounted Police in 1874. A bit naive and idealsitc, Henry Barclay, a native of Toronto, travels west "... to keep the peace and uphold the right of all." Barclay is an educated young man who quotes everything from Byron to the Bible and from Shakespeare to Shelley.
Barclay finds the territories of Western Canada vast, and in his varried duties, he encounters whiskey traders, native tribes, desperadoes, thieves, and murderers. In service to his country Barclay meets historical figures such as Poundmaker, Sitting Bull, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald, and George Dixon, the boxer. There are also true figures from the Force as well, such as Sam Steele, James Walsh and James Macleod.
Barclay's adventures are full of excitement and humour, and are told in the style of the pulp stories of the 1930s.
