A Scout Saved Three Hundred Starving Mounties—and Canada's West
19th Century

A Scout Saved Three Hundred Starving Mounties—and Canada's West

A half-Blackfoot scout saved three hundred lost Mounties from starving to death on the prairie, accidentally ensuring Canada would have a west to govern.

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