The Mountie always gets his man. Without violence, he brings the law to the lawless frontier. He embodies the romantic ideals of honor, duty, responsibility, and faith in an established authority. He is a uniquely Canadian figure in the great stories of the West.
The stories in this volume can be read for sheer thrills: outlaws, smugglers, trappers, rebellion, the Gold Rush, and the opening of the new territory...adventure in an untamed land. On another level, these stories tell us the history of the Canadian West, and how that history has shaped our image of Canada.
Featuring selections by by Wallace Stegner, Ken Mitchell, Ralph Connor, Rudy Wiebe, Gilbert Parker and seventeen other writers (edited by Dick Harrison). Best Mounted Police Stories captures the Mountie in the Canadian West.