| Call #: | Shortt FC3651 .A33 v.26 no.4 1978 |
| Author: |
Pennefather, John P.
|
| Title: | A Surgeon with the Alberta Field Force |
| Notes: | Pennefather was a medical doctor who had emigrated from England to Manitoba in 1880. The article is an extract from his pamphlet, Thirteen Years on the Prairies (London, 1892). When the Resistance broke out he was offered the position of surgeon to Colonel Osborne Smith's Winnipeg Light Infantry. He describes the conditions they encountered on their march to capture Big Bear and the battle of Frenchman's Butte. |
| Subject: |
Frenchman's Butte
Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear) Plains Cree Chief Northwest Field Force - 1885 |
| Journal: | Alberta History, vol. 26, no. 4, Autumn 1978, pp. 1-14. |