Thomas Scott's body : and other essays on early Manitoba history / J.M. Bumsted.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bumsted, J. M., 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manitoba--History--19th century.

Manitoba.

Red River Settlement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What did happen to the body of Thomas Scott?The disposal of the body of Canadian history's most famous political victim is the starting point for historian J.M. Bumsted's new look at some of the most fascinating events and personalities of Manitoba's Red River Settlement.To outsiders, 19th-century Red River seemed like a remote community precariously poised on the edge of the frontier. Small and isolated though it may have been, Red River society was also lively, well educated, multicultural and often contentious. By looking at well-known figures from a new perspective, and by examining some of the more obscure corners of the settlement's history, Bumsted challenges many of the widely held assumptions about Red River. He looks, for instance, at the brief, unhappy Swiss settlement at Red River, examines the controversial reputation of politician John Christian Shultz, and delves into the sensational scandal of a prominent clergyman's trial.Vividly written, Thomas Scott's Body pieces together a new and often surprising picture of early Manitoba and its people.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Red River Chronology""; ""Thomas Scott's Body""; ""Trying to Describe the Buffalo: An Historiographic Essay on the Red River Settlement""; ""Another Look at the Founder: Lord Selkirk as Political Economist""; ""The Swiss and Red River, 1819�1826""; ""Early Flooding in Red River, 1776�1861""; ""The Colonial Office, Aboriginal Policy, and Red River, 1847�1849""; ""Another Look at the Buffalo Hunt""; ""The Queen v. G.O. Corbett, 1863""; ""The Red River Famine of 1868""

""John Christian Schultz and the Founding Of Manitoba (written with the assistance of Wendy Owen)""""Reporting the Resistance of 1869�1870""; ""Why Shoot Thomas Scott? A Study in Historical Evidence""; ""Notes""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613091338

9781283091336

128309133X

9780887553875

0887553877

OCLC:

1406789812