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Product Description Prior to major discoveries of gold the North West Mounted Police had a detachment in the sparsely settled Yukon to implement Canadian sovereignty in the territory where the boundary with Alaska was being disputed. When major gold discoveries were made a relatively small number of policemen coped with the rush of ill-prepared gold seekers into the Klondike in 1897-98. The Mounted Police enforced Canadian law, collected customs duties and mining royalties, aided travellers and carried the mail. Their actions, often carried out in the face of harsh climatic conditions, enhanced the reputation of the force and ensured its place in history. Book contains a full Nominal Roll. About the Author Jim Wallace was born and raised in British Columbia. He served with the Canadian Army and Canadian Armed Force in Canada, Korea, the United States, Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union. Enlisting as a private, he was commissioned from the rank of sergeant and retired as a lieutenant colonel. He is a graduate of Carleton University, Queens University at Kingston, the Canadian Army Staff College and the U.S. Army Language School. He has had a life-long interest in Canadian history and is the author of three books about the North West Mounted Police -A Double Duty: The Decisive First Decade of the North West Mounted Police, A Trying Time: The North West Mounted Police in the 1885 Rebellion and Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush. After considerable research in South Africa he wrote two books about the Anglo-Boer War - No Colours, No Drums: Canadians in the South African Constabulary and Knowing No Fear: The Canadian Scouts in South Africa 1900-1902.