NEVER LOOK AT THE EMPTY SEATS: A Memoir by Charlie Daniels — Book Review
As I said in my Life & Works post, “I believe that the greatest writers of our Boomer Generation have been our singer-songwriters.” Among my favourites have been the Country singers, especially those Country Outlaws.
And some of those have written great memoirs. CASH: The Autobiography by Johnny Cash. IT’S A LONG STORY: My Life by Willie Nelson. WAYLON: An Autobiography by Waylon Jennings. AN OUTLAW AND A LADY: A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and the Faith that Brought Me Home by Jessi Colter. SING ME BACK HOME: My Story by Merle Haggard. MY STORY by Tommy Hunter. WHAT’S ON TAPP? The Gordie Tapp Story by a guy we Canadian fans knew as Cousin Clem. MY LIFE — IN SPITE OF MYSELF by Roy Clark.
And now I’m here to celebrate Charlie Daniel’s own story — NEVER LOOK AT THE EMPTY SEATS: A Memoir.
“We were whole again, well-rehearsed, hot and ready to go…” Charlie Daniels
Charlie Daniels has done ’em all in his successful Sixty year career. From early Rock&Roll, through Bluegrass, R&B, Gospel, Blues, Country, Southern Country, Campfire Songs and Cowboy Tunes.
It wasn’t that Charlie changed with the times. Charlie had something to offer each time our popular culture changed. He still does. Heck, now he’s posting daily on Twitter. [1]
His book title reflects a life-long belief.
Charlie Daniels & Empty Seats
Starting out, Charlie looked at a lot of empty seats, even in the smallest venues. Where some singers would cut back on their show in this situation, from the beginning Charlie believed that you gave your best, your full program, to the folks who were there. He believed that those folks would bring more people to his next show. And they did.
Play to the full seats, give ’em all your best. That’s how you build a triumphant career.
Born in 1936 in Wilmington, North Carolina, Charlie’s family moved around the South a lot and he attended a number of schools, making and leaving a new set of friends with every move.
He discovered his love of music early on. And taught himself how to play the guitar, mandolin — and the fiddle. In his teens he formed his first band, the Misty Mountain Boys, a Bluegrass group.
From then on, his story is the story of the music of his times.
He went on to play with Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, the Marshall Tucker Band, Barefoot Jerry, Hank Williams Jr, Montgomery Gentry, Kid Rock and more.
Recorded songs included “Jaguar,” “Uneasy Rider,” “The South’s Gonna Do It Again,” “Long Haired Country Boy,” “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” “In America,” “The Legend of Wooley Swamp,” “Still in Saigon,” “Simple Man,” “Let ‘Em Win Or Bring ‘Em Home.” Charlie’s rendition of “Back In The Saddle Again,” written by Gene Autry and Ray Whitley, is a warm blend of Country Rock and memories — from a time when a friend was a friend. Remember?
In 1964, he married Hazel Alexander — an ongoing love story. Together, they built their Twin Pines Ranch in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, where he still raises quarter horses and Horned Herefords.
Our Heroes Had Always Been Cowboys
Like a whole lot of us ol’ country boys, Charlie grew up with Westerns and wanted to be a cowboy someday. But Charlie actually went out and did it. And he even befriended Louis L’Amour, one of my all-time fave Western writers.
In his chapter “Heart of My Heart, Rock of My Soul, You Changed My Life When You Took Control,” he tells us of his faith journey. His belief in the words of Jesus. “Take up your cross and follow Me.” And Charlie tells of the Easter service where he “did a couple of gospel songs and stayed for the rest of the service.”
Because of that faith, because of his passion for music, because of his firm determination, Charlie has built a thriving career.
At the 53rd annual BMI Country Awards, Charlie was honored as a “BMI Icon.” On January 19, 2008, he was given a membership in the Grand Ole Opry, inducted by Marty Stuart and Connie Smith. In October of 2016, Charlie became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame along with “fellow tar heels Randy Travis and producer Fred Foster.”
Charlie Daniels has lived a Life, eh?
And he still is. Still singing. Writing. Riding. Still moving with the times…
You’ve gotta track down a copy of NEVER LOOK AT THE EMPTY SEATS: A Memoir by Charlie Daniels.
Hope you enjoyed my Tribute to a great Singer-Songwriter, a Patriot, a Christian — Charlie Daniels.
[1] Yes, Charlie’s posting on Twitter. From daily comments like “22 veterans commit suicide every day,” “Pray for the blue” and “Benghazi ain’t going away!” — to touching, deeply personal sentiments like “Friday the 13th of April 1973 my father, William Carlton Daniels passed away, just before my first hit record, Uneasy Rider took off up the charts. He taught me so much and loved music as much as I do. Been almost a half century now and we still miss you Dad Rest In Peace”
CHARLIE DANIELS Memoir of a Long Haired Country Boy & Cowboy
Update July 6, 2023. It’s been three years today since we lost Charlie Daniels. We’ve still got his music, God bless him, but sure miss his humor and outspoken ways:
“I should be the one to say what I do. It’s just not done that way anymore in Nashville. And I can’t do it the other way.”
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Stone didn’t need to ask to whom she was referring, but her statement confused him, and for some reason angered him. “Why shouldn’t you hate him? I do, and if I ever see him again, I’ll kill him, scalp him, and burn him — just like he did to our friends!”
“No, Hunter,” she said, appalled at his vehemence.
“No?” He pointed to her Bible. “Doesn’t that say ‘an eye for an eye’?”
“Yes, but that’s the law of Moses in the Old Testament. Jesus Christ came and changed all that.”
“How?”
“Listen to this,” she said.
Opening up her Bible, she read: ” ‘And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him… Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.’ Betsy locked her eyes with his. “Jesus teaches us to forgive the ones that hurt us, just as He forgave the Romans for nailing him to the cross and leaving Him to die.”
Stone couldn’t believe it. Forgive that monster? That’s impossible! A man capable of that kind of butchery deserves to die as no other.
Betsy saw his confusion. “Jesus taught that over and over again.” She flipped through her Bible and pointed at another passage. “‘Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you; bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other.'”
“But that’s…that’s…incredible! Nobody can do that!”
“Jesus did.”
Christian fiction from BY HONOR BOUND by Alan Morris.
The Christian message has been an essential element of Canadian Mountie Fiction from its beginning.
The Reverend Charles William Gordon, writing as “Ralph Connor,” reflected his passionate beliefs in his earliest novels, including CORPORAL CAMERON OF THE NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE: A Tale of the MacLeod Trail, the story that established the Mountie Fiction genre.
Others, such as Archdeacon H A Cody, James Oliver Curwood (who coined the phrase “God’s Country,” using it in a number of book titles) and Janette Oke, continued the tradition.
Another Christian writer is Alan Morris.
From the Gulf Shores of Alabama, Alan co-authored a number of Christian novels with his father Gilbert Morris, before producing his own Guardians of the North series, which was published between 1996 and ’99 by Bethany House. After his first novel, Alan moved with his wife and three children to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
The five titles of the series were BY HONOR BOUND, HEART OF VALOR, BRIGHT SWORD OF JUSTICE, BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY and WINGS OF HEALING.
Summer, 1874. It’s the story of Hunter Stone, who loses his home, his wife Betsy and almost his life to renegades.
He joins the newly created North-West Mounted Police, but is it to seek vengeance? Will the young missionary who nursed him back to health, Reena O’Donnell, be able to heal his soul?
In BY HONOR BOUND, Hunter Stone has to discover his own beliefs — what is Love? What is Honor?
Guardians of the North is actually a well-written and well-researched series.
While Alan had plotted BY HONOR BOUND before he sought out detailed research material, the storylines of the next four novels truly reflected Canadian history and culture.
The second novel, HEART OF VALOR, dealt with the real reason the Mounties had been created: the battle with the evil whiskey traders who were decimating the Blackfoot and other First Nations.
And the easy racism of an earlier generation, found even in the better writings of James Curwood and William Byron Mowery, has been replaced by a more equitable treatment of those First Nations.
A note on broad-brimmed Stetson shown on the Guardians series cover art:
The NWMP Force didn’t adopt those iconic campaign design Stetsons until the Klondike era of late 1890’s — author Morris okayed the visual anachronism because “the white helmets described in this novel make the early Police look like colonial British soldiers.” Which was a “look” the Canadian government had deliberately adopted, because of the relationship of trust and cooperation the British Army had already established with our western First Nations pre-Confederation.
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Canadian Mounties: The Story of the North-West Mounted Police is an epic one.
And it led to one of the worldwide iconic Cultural Heroes of the 20th Century. The Mythic Mountie.
Canadian Mounted Police. Fort Whoop-Up, Five Thousand Outlaws and the Mounties’ Great March West…
Canadian Mounties: What’s in a name?
A Brief History Note. It was 1867. Prime Minister John A MacDonald had led the Confederation of our new Dominion of Canada. Shortly after, he was given alarming news about the Canadian West. Rupert’s Land was falling into a state of chaos. Rupert’s Land was an area as big as Europe, soon to be renamed the Canadian North-West Territories.
Before Confederation, a small number of red-coated soldiers of the British Army patrolled Rupert’s Land. Keeping peace and good relations with the Native Peoples on behalf of “The Grandmother” (Queen Victoria). Two years after Confederation, they were recalled to England.
By 1870, First Nations tribes were being devastated by a Smallpox epidemic. Every village, every tipi, echoed with their death songs as the people suffered fever, delirium and death. Père Albert Lacombe, a beloved priest of the Oblat de Marie-Immaculée in Winnipeg, reported on the source of the virulent Smallpox. It had originated with wagonloads of infected blankets from the U.S. military infirmary of St. Louis. Which the First Nations people had found abandoned on the open plains.
Then the ravening whiskey traders came. “Flogging their teams north with loads of ‘Injun whiskey’ to finish the job of destroying a race which their pestilence had started.” [1]
The Frontier traffickers pushed into the limitless unprotected “Indian country.” Building fortified trading posts. And offering guns and potent “rotgut” trade whiskey in return for furs, buffalo robes and horses from an already anguished, desperate native people.
Fort Whoop-Up, Canadian North-West Territories, 1873
The biggest post was Fort Whoop-Up. A place of “drunken debauchery, fraud and cruelty.” [1]
And a place of ever-present violence: “Hundreds of Blackfoot Indians died as a result of the whisky trade. Either killed in drunken quarrels, shot by whisky traders, frozen to death while drunk. Or poisoned by the whisky itself. Chiefs lost their authority. Their people traded everything they owned. And entire communities were decimated.” [2]
Originally called Fort Hamilton (after its owner, Montana businessman Alfred Baker Hamilton), its wild occupants quickly renamed it Fort Whoop-Up.
Other whiskey posts were also re-christened. Fort Stand-Off earned its name in 1872 when its men successfully stood off a posse, led by a US Marshall, that had followed their supply wagon train from Montana.
Fort Solomon was named for its manager, Mose Solomon. It was renamed when its traders, hearing that some Blood Indians had killed the teamster bringing them supplies from Fort Benton, ordered “All Blood Injuns better slide out of here!” It was renamed Fort Slide-Out.
And the remorseless whiskey traders prospered.
Blackfoot Chief Crowfoot would later say, “Bad men and whisky were killing us so fast that very few of us would have been left today.”
Both Père Lacombe and Methodist missionary Rev George MacDougall made trips to Ottawa. They pleaded with the MacDonald government to halt the devastating whiskey trade. They were ignored.
And then…
Cypress Hills, June 1, 1873.
The Cypress Hills Massacre. A ragtag group of Wolfers, Fur Trappers and Buffalo Hunters calling themselves the “Spitzee Cavalry” attacked a band of sleeping Woody Mountain Assiniboines. Heavily armed with Henry repeating rifles and two Smith & Wesson’s large revolvers each, the group “wiped out the forty lodges, very few escaping.” They left the encampment with two wagonloads of buffalo hides and furs, a rich take. Ten days later, the Helena Daily Herald out of Montana would publish the story that would shake the newborn Dominion, “Whites on the War Path: Forty Lodges Wiped out by Sixteen Kit Carsons.” [3]
News of the atrocity reached the East. The Catholic Church and Protestant newspapers hotly demanded that MacDonald finally do something.
MacDonald announced that he was going to create a Canadian Field Force. An armed, self-reliant mounted company to be sent west to establish law and justice.
President Ulysses S Grant warned MacDonald not to send that military field force west. Doing so would be considered an Act of War against the USA. This was the time of Manifest Destiny. In the mid-1860’s, U.S. Secretary of State William H Seward was then bargaining for the acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire. And Seward had spoken publicly about “next annexing British North American territories.” American trading posts in the Canadian northwest, including the ruthless outposts Fort Whoop-Up, Fort Spitzee, Fort Kipp, Fort Stand-Off and Fort Slide-Out, were already flying the Stars and Stripes.
Prime Minister MacDonald took the Act to Create a Canadian Field Force out of his desk.
MacDonald dipped pen into inkwell, scratched out some words and neatly wrote: “North-West Mounted Police.” The name change, he explained in Parliament, reflected the non-military goals of the new force. Adding that a company of “fewer than 300 brave men” was no danger to our neighbour to the south. “They are to be purely a civil, not a military body. With as little gold lace, fuss, and fine feathers as possible. Not a crack cavalry regiment, but an efficient police force for the rough and ready — particularly ready — enforcement of law and justice.” The new force’s motto was “Maintiens Le Droit” — “Maintain The Right.” [4]
President Grant read his ambassador’s report from Canada. Then the old soldier looked at the map of U.S. and Canadian western territories. He knew that he had already sent 2000 additional soldiers — infantry and cavalry — just to counter the “Sioux problem.” And that he had 12,000 more troops throughout the western frontier. Hell, George Custer alone had over 600 battle-hardened men in his command. Twice the number of this green Canadian force.
The U.S. Marshall Hard Report…
U.S. Marshal Charles Hard, based in Fort Benton, Montana Territory, had reported to Washington that “over 5000 American toughs and outlaws” were hiding across the Canadian Line. And there were thousands of native Blackfoot, Blood, Cree and Assiniboines just as hostile as the Cheyenne and Sioux.
Grant lit up a stogie and watched the rolling smoke thoughtfully. This Canadian Field Force, or whatever MacDonald was calling it now, had to ride a thousand miles just to get to the Canadian West. And then fight for control of a wild lawless territory bigger than Alaska. “Fewer than 300 men,” he concluded. “Let them go. They will never make it.”
“The Great March West.”
NWMP Great March West of 1874
The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) began their historic Great March West to establish the Queen’s Law on July 8, 1874.
They had enough horses for the 275 policemen and their Métis scouts and teamsters. They took 73 wagons full of supplies. And two nine pounder cannons, weighing a ton-and-a-half each. The Mounties trained those cannons on the treacherous Fort Whoop-Up on October 9th…
When the Mounted Police moved on to their second objective, Fort Spitzee, they found that the “Spitzee Cavalry” had already abandoned it. And hastily retreated south. The police commandeered the intact fort, making it the first NWMP outpost. [5]
With winter due, the main force moved on to the south bank of the Oldman River. Where they built Fort Macleod, their headquarters. They then built Fort Walsh and Fort Calgary.
Our Canadian Mounties had arrived.
In 1904, their heroic achievements received recognition when King Edward VII granted the Force the prefix “Royal.” And it became the Royal North-West Mounted Police (RNWMP).
In February 1920, the Mounted Police were amalgamated with the Ottawa-based Dominion Police, which had carried out federal policing and security in eastern Canada. They were given their modern name, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
“The Rough and Ready Enforcement of Law and Justice.”
Although initially created to shut down the pernicious whiskey forts and establish Canadian Sovereignty in its own Western Territories, our Canadian Mounties soon found themselves expanding their job description…
Hunting down the remaining “toughs and outlaws” who hadn’t already fled back over the border. Patrolling that border to keep out other “questionable ruffians,” including whisky smugglers. Watching for known members of the Spitzee Cavalry, should they be caught on Canadian soil — the charges were murder, rape and theft. Setting up customs posts. Negotiating treaties with the Native Peoples. Protecting the dwindling bison population from foreign hunters, thus saving the bison from extinction. Fighting miles-wide prairie grass fires that mysteriously burst out just inside the Canadian Border. And policing the homesteaders, ranchers and merchants who followed the arrival of the “Scarlet Riders.”
The more success the Canadian Mounties achieved, the more they were needed.
How did 275 men accomplish so much in such an immense perilous territory? They were welcomed (and protected) by the chiefs of the Blackfoot Confederacy. Given sage advice by Père Lacombe, “Peacemaker of the Northwest.” Able to hire astute scouts and interpreters such as Scotch-Cree Jerry Potts, Métis Jean Baptiste Morin, Métis Baptiste Page, Scotch-Métis Norbert Welsh, Blood Tribe Kucka-toosinah (Starchild), Métis Louis Laronde, Blackfoot Sisoom (Dog Child) and Blood Chief Joe Bull Shields.
And many Mounted Police officers proved to be men of foremost honesty. After all, the officer cadre consisted of hand-picked decorated veterans of the British Army, Royal Marines and Canadian Militia. They brought that Victorian Age sense of honour, valour and chivalry with them. Such as Superintendent James Macleod, who earned the trust and respect of the Native chiefs, calling Macleod “Stamixotokon” (“Bull’s Head,” from the bison head on the NWMP crest).
The Canadian Mounties embodied their founding principle of Maintaining the Right. [6]
North-West Mounted Police Fort Calgary. Built 1875, Photo taken 1878.
And in so doing, our Canadian Mounties became our National Heroes.
DEDICATION: In Memory of Constable Phil Callan, RCMP, Regimental #34615. A Good Man. A Friend.
Canadian Mounties Quotes:
“I demand that neither hardship, suffering, privation, nor fear of death should move you by a hair’s breadth from carrying out your duties.” Lieutenant-Colonel George Arthur French, organizer and first Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police.
“Bad medicine. Many ghosts.” Jerry Potts, Mounted Police scout, when first asked about Fort Whoop-Up.
“Let this be fair warning! From this day on, I’m the law out here. And I’ll arrest anyone I even think is trading whisky. I’ve got the authority to try any man and with a wink from Ottawa — I’ll hang him!” Superintendent James Macleod, NWMP, upon entering Fort Whoop-Up, October 9th, 1874.
“Blackfoot Chief Crowfoot” Isapo-muxika
“If the Mounted Police had not come to the country, where would we all be now? Bad men and whisky were killing us so fast that very few of us would have been left today…
“The Mounted Police have protected us as the feathers of the bird protect it from the frosts of winter. I wish them all good. And trust that all our hearts will increase in goodness from this time forward. I am satisfied. I will sign the treaty.” Isapo-muxika (Crowfoot), Siksika chief of the Blackfoot Confederacy, upon signing Treaty 7, 1877.
Three Years Ago when the Mounted Police first came…
“Three years ago, when the Mounted Police first came to the country, I met and shook hands with Stamixotokon at the Mokowan River. Since that time he made me many promises. He kept them all. Not one of them was ever broken. Everything that the police have done has been good. I entirely trust Stamixotokon, and will leave everything up to him. I will sign with Crowfoot.” Mi’k ai’stoowa (Red Crow), Head Chief of the Kainai (Blood Indians).
“The grass in Canada is not stained with blood.” Tatanka-Iyotanka (Sitting Bull) to Inspector James Walsh of the North-West Mounted Police, when the Hunkpapa Sioux leader sought the protection of the Mounties for his people after the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Canadian Mounties Fiction:
“I know the history of the early North-West Mounted as much as any man alive. And I have always been impressed by the very human qualities of the men. By their trials, their shortcomings and the truly magnificent things they did as plain humans.” American author William Byron Mowery, one of the 10 Greatest Writers of Mountie Fiction.
From their beginning, fictional stories have been told of our Mounties….
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A Shout-out to Hollywood…
A heart-felt shout-out to those esteemed Hollywood screenwriters Burt Kennedy, Gil Doud, Frank Gruber, George Wallace Sayre, Frank Fenton and Cecil B DeMille. All of whom inspired my love of history and true national mythology, and showed me how to craft it. God Bless ’em! If you haven’t met all of them, just Google each name with “Mounties” after it. — Brian Alan Burhoe
THE CANADIANS Written & Directed by BURT KENNEDY
Canadian Mounties Informing Footnotes:
[1] The quotes “Flogging their teams north with loads of ‘Injun whiskey’…” and “drunken debauchery, fraud and cruelty” are from STRANGE EMPIRE. The dramatic and eloquent book by noted Montana journalist, historian, and author Joseph Kinsey Howard.
[2] “Hundreds of Blackfoot Indians died as a result of the whisky trade…” Hugh Aylmer Dempsey. Author of CROWFOOT: Chief of the Blackfeet, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1972. And FIREWATER: The Impact of the Whisky Trade on the Blackfoot Nation, Fifth House Publishers, Markham, Ontario, 2002.
[3] “Whites on the Warpath: Forty Lodges Wiped out by Sixteen Kit Carsons.”
No official death toll of the Cypress Hills Massacre — men, women and children — was ever issued. Numbers from 20 to 400 have been quoted.
The Helena newspaper gave this account, based on the eyewitness report of two participants:
“It was determined to attack this encampment of Assiniboines. And to do it on the Indian plan. Accordingly, at the first break of day the next morning, the sixteen or seventeen whites attacked and effectually wiped out the forty lodges, very few escaping. Two of the men loaded two wagons with robes and furs and started for Benton. The two men reached Benton on Saturday last, from whose statements these particulars were gleaned…
“Only one white man was killed, and he was shot through the heart by a wounded Indian whom he pursued into the brush. The name of the man killed is Ed Grace, a man well known by the people of Helena and Prickly Pear Valley.”
– Helena Daily Herald, June 11, 1873.
But time changes opinions…
“Most old-timers who were in the territory of Montana in the early seventies, are still able to recall the Cypress Hills Massacre. It’s declared by witnesses to be one of the bloodiest and most revolting crimes against the red man in the annals of the West. And an occurrence which caused an almost strained feeling between the Canadian Government, within whose domain the incident happened, and the Montana Territorial government.”
– Hill County Democrat (Havre, Montana), August 20, 1926.
[4] Q. “What’s the myth about Mounties always getting their man?”
The Mounties’ official motto translates as “Maintain The Right” or “Uphold the Right.” But in Hollywood’s Canada it became common to hear dialogue like, “You know our motto. Get Your Man!”
It’s an American idea. And was based on fact. It first appeared in a Montana newspaper report:
“Fort McLeod, N.W.T., March 20, 1877. Thanks to the vigilance of Major Irvine and the energy of Captain Winder, of the N.W. Mounted Police, another attempt to smuggle whiskey into the Indian country has been frustrated by the arrest of three men. They were tried, found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of five hundred dollars each or be imprisoned for the minor period of six months. They preferred the former. Horses were sacrificed for the arrest, but the Mounted Police are worse than bloodhounds when they scent the track of a smuggler. And they fetch their men every time.”
– Fort Benton Record, Friday, April 13, 1877.
Although the amazing success our Canadian Mounties had in tracking down criminal suspects was due in large part to their Métis and First Nations Mounted Police scouts. After all, those scouts were highly motivated to hunt down “bad white men.”
Their real-life success would inspire the noble image of the Mythic Mountie…
Other Captured Forts…
[5] Fort Kipp (built by Joseph Raven Quiver Kipp), on the Oldman River, and Fort Stand-Off, on the Belly (Mokowan) River, were both taken over by the Canadian Mounties until Fort Macleod was completed. After the North-West Rebellion, Fort Kipp was repaired and served for years as a Mounted Police patrol post.
I’m told that Fort Slide-Out, farther along the Belly, was also abandoned but presented a mystery. Three new gun carriages without barrels were found in a storehouse. As well as a pile of pine-board signs — one freshly painted “Remember the Al.”
To learn more, see the Complete List of Alberta’s Trading, Military & Mounted Police Forts: North American Forts – Alberta, Canada. Compiled by Pete Payette 0f the American Forts Network.
CANADIAN MOUNTIES Creation & History Royal Mounted Police
[6]A Concluding Brief History Note: By the time John A MacDonald’s “fewer than 300 brave men” had established their first Police Posts, the MacDonald Conservative government had fallen. It was the new Liberal Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie who created and passed the Indian Act. This included the establishing of Residential Schools. And it was PM Alexander Mackenzie who refused to keep many of the Mounties’ promises to the First Nations. Promises that had been authorized by MacDonald before the Mounties even headed West.
When Mackenzie mentioned that he might accept President Grant’s new offer to deploy US troops to join the North-West Mounted Police in Western Canada, Lord Dufferin, our Governor General representing Queen Victoria, firmly talked him out of it.
The Grant Connection: “The Peace Policy.”
President Grant’s 1869 Peace Policy (“Kill the Indian, Save the Man”) included Boarding Schools as part of his plan to “civilize” American Indian children. Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie’s Indian Act followed Ulysses S Grant’s Peace Policy almost word for word, or at least idea for idea.
Commissioner James Macleod “Stamixotokon”
George Arthur French (who was the NWMP’s first Commissioner), James Macleod (the Mounties’ second Commissioner, called Stamixotokon by the First Nations) and Inspector James Morrow Walsh (who had granted Sitting Bull and over 5000 Sioux refuge in Canada) would each, in his turn, resign his commission in the NWMP.
Each one because of Government betrayals of the First Nations and Métis People.
Three Men of Honour.
Canadian Mounties — Further Reading:
OPENING UP THE WEST: Being the Official Reports to Parliament of the Activities of the North-West Mounted Police Force from 1874-1881 by the Commissioners of the NWMP
STRANGE EMPIRE: A Narrative of the Northwest by Joseph Kinsey Howard (Reprinted in Canada as STRANGE EMPIRE: The Story of Louis Riel)
BEAR CHILD: The Life and Times of Jerry Potts by Rodger D Touchie
FATHER LACOMBE: The Black-Robe Voyageur by Katherine Hughes
THE MARCHING CALL by Harwood Steele
THE GREAT ADVENTURE: Selections from the Diaries, Letters & First-Hand Accounts of the Original NWMP. Collected by David Cruise & Alison Griffiths
Canadian Mounties: Creation & History of the Royal Mounted Police – Whiskey Forts – RCMP News.
Note on Images: Both “Mythic Mountie” oil on canvas paintings on this page are by American artist Arnold Friberg (1913-2010). See Art Country Canada. Other historic photos, artwork and book covers are in the public domain.
Updated Canada Day, July 1, 2023. Celebrating our Canadian Mounties on their RCMP 150th Anniversary.
Canadian Mounted Police. Fort Whoop-Up, Five Thousand Outlaws and the Great March West. Why were the northwest mounted police created? Who created the Indian Act?
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H A CODY: Author of THE LONG PATROL – A Tale of the Mounted Police
Frontiersman.
When I was a boy, the books of fellow New Brunswicker H A Cody were waiting to be found on the shelves of local libraries. Opening one took me to the mythic Heart of our Home and Native Land…
Creek, swish! Creek, swish! Hour after hour sounded forth the yielding snowshoes as Keith Steadman, hardy Northman and trailsman, strode rapidly forward. For days he had listened to their monotonous music, as he wound his devious way over valleys, plains, and mountain passes. Down toward the mighty Yukon River, pulsing on to the sea through the great white silence.
There was snow everywhere.
Snow on the river, sparkling like a million diamonds. Snow on the lakes, lying smooth and white. It was on the trees, hanging in beautiful, fairy-like clusters. Snow on the sun-kissed mountains, fleecy, golden, drifting. Snow, frosty, hard, surrounding the traveller, pouring into his lungs at every breath, clinging to his eyebrows, whitening his unkempt beard, and decorating the furry fringes of his loose parka.
“Cold night,” he muttered to himself, as he paused to readjust the rope of the small sled he was drawing, to the right shoulder.
Then he glanced back over the trail, and a dark object arrested his attention, drawing nearer and nearer.
“A wolf! and on my track, too! I expected as much in this desolate spot.” And the traveller unslung the small rifle from his back and stood ready for action…
From THE FRONTIERSMAN: A Tale of the Yukon by H A Cody, William Briggs, Toronto, 1910
Born in 1872 in the farming village of Codys, just north of Saint John City, New Brunswick, the Reverend Hiram Alfred Cody at one time matched fellow Canadian Ralph Connor in book sales. [1]
H A Cody later summed up his life and literature: “My ideal of life as a boy was one of adventure in which a married man and a clergyman had no part. I have long since found out my mistake. For I have learned by experience that married life, as well as the ministry, will supply adventures sufficient for one lifetime.”
Trailsman.
As a young Anglican priest, the blacksmith’s son had served in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, keeping copious journals. He returned home where he was eventually appointed Archdeacon of Saint John. And where he and his wife Jessie raised their three sons.
And where he would write and publish 25 books under the by-line H A Cody.
Although most of Cody’s actual writing — novels, short stories and poetry — was done at his favorite “Retreat,” their summer home at Oak Point, Kings County, New Brunswick.
While some of his later works were set in the Colonial East, his first works fell into the popular Northwestern Genre in the Jack London Tradition. Some dealt with the Northern adventures of the men and women, including Mounties, who inhabited that land. All dealt with the clean, strong spiritual values that grow with living and struggling in the hard wilderness.
Among his most popular were AN APOSTLE OF THE NORTH, THE CHIEF OF THE RANGES: A Tale of the Yukon, and THE FRONTIERSMAN. Also ROD OF THE LONE PATROL, GLEN OF THE HIGH NORTH, THE TRAIL OF THE GOLDEN HORN, THE TOUCH OF ABNER, IF ANY MAN SIN, THE RED RANGER…
…and his classic Mountie novel THE LONG PATROL: A Tale of the Mounted Police.
Constable Grey found himself alone with Madeline. For the trapper had remained in the outer room, where he was filling his pipe preparatory to his usual morning smoke.
Grey looked long and lovingly upon that white face embedded among the furs. Within him raged a fierce contest. He desired to stay by her side, to know how she would fare after her terrible experience. The love in his heart told him to remain. She was all he had in the world. In her was his life and hope. But, on the other hand, he was in duty bound to go forward as quickly as possible after that stolen child.
There was his duty.
And yet, why should he go? Did not love, the care of this helpless woman, have the first consideration? Suddenly Grey remembered that this was the day of his discharge from the Force. Was he not a free man? No longer bound by exacting, and at times galling, rules? On the other hand, was he free? That could not be until he returned, and received his discharge from his Commanding Officer. But, then, what was duty, when love stood in the way?
One voice whispered, “Stay with her whom you love. This is your first duty.”
But another voice, clear and distinct, could not be silenced. “You are in honour bound to carry out your Commander’s orders.
“He has intrusted you with a sacred commission.
“Will you relinquish the quest, bring disgrace upon yourself, and dishonour upon the Force? Hitherto no man has ever turned back when given such a command as yours until his object had been attained. Will you be the first? How can you return to Big Glen, face your Superior Officer, and your comrades? You, Norman Grey, have never shirked your duty before, and will you do it now?”
“But what about Madeline?” again insisted the first voice.
H A Cody begins this novel: “To that noble body of men, The Royal North-West Mounted Police, this book is affectionately dedicated by one, who for several years lived among them and shared their hospitality in the far-flung Canadian Northland.”
The picture on the cover of THE LONG PATROL to the left was printed courtesy of the Fox Film Corporation.
And, no, that’s not a Canadian soldier.
Though rarely shown on book and magazine covers, the early 20th Century saw this new Mounted Police uniform in use. The brown duck four-pocket Field Service tunic, cord breeches and Strathcona boots. The famous red serge jacket remained for full dress, the Musical Ride and routine Northern service.
Apostle of the North.
Although I didn’t know it at the time, Reverend Cody’s literary blend of the First Nation’s spiritual connection to their Sacred Land and our own fierce Celtic Christian beliefs in piety, love and loyalty passionately caught the Canadian Spirit. This especially applied to his THE CHIEF OF THE RANGES.
Some of his later works, such as THE FIGHTING-SLOGAN, THE STUMBLING SHEPHERD and THE RIVER FURY dealt intensely with the Post-WWI attacks on our Canadian and Christian culture by outside forces.
So the storing of these kegs of powder and bullets was but a part of the preparation in the general scheme of attack. Unexpectedly he had come across this cave. How was he to use the knowledge in his possession? To whom should he take that piece of paper? He looked at it again. His eyes rested upon the words, in big letters, On to Canada, followed by the doggerel lines,
“We are a Fenian Brotherhood, skilled in the arts of war,
And we’re going to fight for Ireland, the land that we adore,
Many battles we have fought, along with the boys in blue,
And we’ll go and capture Canada, for we’ve nothing else to do.”
From THE FIGHTING-SLOGAN, McLelland & Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1926
By the time of his passing at age 75, Cody’s work was being savaged by the Toronto CanLit elite as being “out of touch with the times.” But I found his work, even then, to be a fervent reflection of our own New Brunswick soul.
A long time ago now, I suppose — I was just a boy — but when reading the books of H A Cody I was never prouder to have been born in foggy old Saint John, New Brunswick.
Here’s a great writer — one of our own — worth tracking down.
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[1] “I know your books! I could pass an examination in BLACK ROCK and SKY PILOT,” President Theodore Roosevelt told author Ralph Connor.
Canadian Ralph Connor (Rev Charles Gordon), whose first three novels — BLACK ROCK (1898), THE SKY PILOT (1899) and THE MAN FROM GLENGARRY (1901) — sold over five million copies, entered the 20th Century as the world’s best selling author. He was followed by American Rev Harold Bell Wright with books including THAT PRINTER OF UDELL’S (1903) and THE SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS (1907). Then came H A Cody with AN APOSTLE OF THE NORTH (1908) and THE FRONTIERSMAN: A Tale of the Yukon (1910). At one point, all three authors were matching in sales. They’re forgotten now by most but not by all.
H A CODY Frontiersman, Trailsman & Apostle of the North – Author of THE LONG PATROL: A Tale of the Mounted Police
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Created in 1903 by Jack London with the publication of his novel THE CALL OF THE WILD, the Northwestern Genre thrived for the first half of the 20th Century.
In 1907, Robert W Service’s The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses was published. Service would soon be called “The Bard of the Yukon.” Like Jack London, Robert W Service had lived in the Canadian Klondike, basing his popular ballads on his own adventures and local stories: “There are strange things done in the midnight sun. By the men who moil for gold…”
The Northwestern Genre was defined.
A number of great Pulp Writers followed Jack and Robert’s lead…
…quickly gaining an international following with their own thrilling adventures set in the savage Northcountry.
In countless magazines, novels and movies, the Northwestern told the gripping stories of bold adventurers (often scarlet-coated Mounties), fiercely independent women, loyal sled dogs, wild wolves and that almost mythic Northcountry.
North-West Stories (later retitled North-West Romances) was the genre’s most popular pulp magazine. It appeared from the mid-1920’s into the 50’s.
The exciting issue of North-West Stories featured on this post hit the magazine stands on March 22, 1927.
Cover painting (see above) was by George H Wert.
The lead-off novella and cover story, INVADERS OF THE ICE, was written by A De Herries Smith.
Augustus “Gus” William De Herries Smith, the son of a ship’s doctor, was born in County Cork, Ireland in 1881. After a wandering life in the South Pacific, he settled in Canada.
In later years, Gus would say that he had come to Canada so he “could skate on the frozen lakes in the winter.”
On April 21, 1908, he married Maria Ann Birnie and they homesteaded along the Paddle River, northern Alberta. They built a two-story log house. While expanding their farm, which included a saw mill, they had four children, Lily, Norah, Cedric and Achillies (Ackie).
During the First World War, he enlisted in the 202nd Canadian Infantry Battalion, serving in France. His Army records show him as a Private, Regimental #231241. Occupation Lumberman. After the war, Gus returned to their homestead. Where Maria gave birth to four more children: Ron, Desmond, Caroline and Gerald.
Gus loved horses. He raised them on the farm. In later years, when he and his family moved to the Edmonton area, he would join and ride with the Canadian Command of the Legion of Frontiersmen. Which was a mounted patriotic para-military group. Although he purchased a car, “it sat in the garage because he had no interest in learning how to drive it.”[1] He travelled locally by horse and further afield by train or boat.
He was a dedicated family man, a life-time abstainer of alcohol and a voracious reader. But never went to the movies, considering them “a waste of time.”
Once he was settled in Edmonton, Gus decided to follow his dream of becoming a writer. He was hired by The Edmonton Bulletin and his news and human interest items about the Northland were soon published under his own byline. He would become the Bulletin‘s Northern Editor.
With an interest in fiction, he also began to sell his “wilderness yarns” to a number of popular American “pulpwood” publications. When readers began to send in letters demanding “give us more stories by De Herries Smith,” a new career was begun.
De Herries Smith published numerous short stories in the pulp magazines of the 1920’s to mid 40’s, especially in North-West Stories (later retitled North-West Romances), as well as Action Stories, Adventure, All Star Western & Frontier Magazine, Argosy All-Star Weekly, Dime Adventure Magazine, Frontier Stories, Lariat Story Magazine, Outdoor Stories, Short Stories and Wild West Weekly.
Among his short stories were “Arctic Ambush,” “Brand of the Polar Sea,” “Bugles of the Ice,” “The Carcajou Killer,” “The Laughing Fox,” “Law of the Lone Land,” “Red-Coat Law,” “Pards of the Snowshoe Trail,” and “Under Northern Stars.” His longer Complete Novellas included “Arctic Arrows,” “Breed of the Barrens,” “Dancing Drums,” “Snow Eagles” and “Mark of the Wolf.”
DRUMS OF THE NORTH
His full-length novel DRUMS OF THE NORTH, which was serialized in North-West Stories in four parts, was published as a hardcover by Macaulay Company, New York, 1928: “Lima Bellerose, daughter of the owner of the trading post of Dahadinni — with proud native Indian blood in her veins — wages a lone fight against a woman from the Great Outside for Bruce Redwood, man of her heart.”
The prolific De Herries Smith also published fiction under the pseudonyms of Owen Finbar, Sergeant Dan O’Rourke (later shortened to Dan O’Rourke) and Derek West.
The Table of Contents for the March 22, 1927 issue of North-West Stories is:
Invaders of the Ice – A De Herries Smith · novella
Aerial Mapping in Canada – Anon · ar (article)
The Dark Whisper – Theodore A Tinsley · ss (short story)
Athabaska Trapper Cheats Death – Anon · ar
Courage of the Strong – Frederick Lewis Nebel · ss
2000 Buffalo to Be Slaughtered – Anon · ts (true story)
Tonopah’s Dawg (A Tonopah Lee Story) – Eli Colter (May Eliza Frost) · ss
Game in the Yukon – Anon – ar
Over the Boundary – Robert Roy · ss
Rustler’s Trail (Part 5 of 6) – Robert Ames Bennett · serialized novel
Conspiracy – Sergeant Dan O’Rourke (A De Herries Smith) · ss
Fisherman’s Luck – Albert William Stone · ss
Indian Hero Becomes Postman – Anon · ar
Red Terror – Harvey A Brassard – ss
Yukon Pioneer Passes – Anon · ar
The Round-Up – R E Alexander · poem
Thunder Bird – George B Rodney · ss
When Good Fellows Get Together – Readers’ Letters
And Gus continued to sell Northern news items to The Edmonton Bulletin and The Toronto Star.
Gus, like most freelance article writers, recycled each of his news items into three or four features. Some, if not most, of the “Anon” articles listed above would have been written by him.
In fact, it was common in those times for a prolific, popular author to have a number of stories in a single magazine issue, each one under a different name.
For example, Gus had four of his stories published in this Fall 1937 issue of North-West Romances:
“Wolves of the Wastelands” (as by A DeHerries Smith), “Untamed!” (Owen Finbar), “Fool’s Gold” (Sgt. Dan O’Rourke) and “Trail Tales of the North: The Snow Gods’ Way” (Derek West).
The outbreak of World War Two in 1939 changed everything for the Smith family, as it did most Canadians.
Gus and Maria saw four of their sons, Ackie, Desmond, Cedric and Ron, join the Canadian Forces. All served in active duty. Gus never missed a CBC or BBC radio newscast — or newspaper wire services report — trying to read between the lines to follow his boys at war.
Two sons, Cedric (in 1940, at sea) and then Desmond (1944, in the air), were killed in action. Both parents were devastated. On December 11, 1945, Gus died from a sudden stroke. Maria carried on to see their other children and grandchildren grow and thrive. She died in Calgary at age 103.
A productive and masterful storyteller, the popular De Herries Smith couldn’t be completely replaced in the hearts of the North-West Romances readership. New writers, especially Dan Cushman and Les Savage Jr, developed followings with their thrilling Northern adventures, but the editors had to feature old reprints of Jack London and Robert Service writings to keep sales up.[2]
Other Pulp writers…
About Robert Roy, author of “Over the Boundary” in this reviewed issue: twenty-three 0f Roy’s stories appeared in a creative burst in the adventure pulps from 1925 to ’27 — a few stragglers appearing up to 1930. He gained an eager following of his Northern yarns. Besides “Over the Boundary,” other favourites included “Breed of the Wolf,” “Honor of the Mounted,” “Mounted Justice,” “Mountie’s Luck,” “One Fox — For Christmas” and “Red-Coat Code.” A popular poem was his sentimental “Sonnet to a Team Dog.”
Serving originally in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Robert Roy transferred to the New York State Police in 1926. A year later, while entering the home of a larceny suspect to make an arrest, Roy was shot to death. He was 28.
After walking out of high school on his first day there, fifteen year old New Yorker Frederick Nebel moved to Canada, where he worked on his great-uncle’s homestead. He was a young man looking for challenge and adventure and found it. He loved the Canadian wilderness, keenly exploring it and learning about it’s history. His experiences formed the basis of his first fiction sale: “Trade Law” in the July, 1925 edition of North-West Stories.
Other tales by Nebel appeared in that magazine, including “Voyageur of the Wasteland,” “The Valley of Wanted Men,” “Red Coat of Tradition,” “Code of the Iron Fist” and “Tell It to the Mounted.” He would go on to have his stories published in top mystery magazines such as Dime Detective and Black Mask. Later, in the prominent Saturday Evening Post and adapted into Hollywood screenplays.
As was common with many of the popular pulp writers, some of the authors listed above lived adventurous lives of their own.
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Frontier Footnotes…
[1] “the car sat in the garage…” quote is from a short Bio of his father compiled by Ron Smith for a Smith family reunion in June 1985. Ron’s bio was the basis of a Profile posted on FamilySearch in March, 2014: Augustus William De Herries Smith – a Family Biography.
Mounties, Wolves & Pulp Writers: North-West Stories and A De Herries Smith.
ARCTIC ARROWS – Complete Novelette by De Herries Smith – Arctic Silences, Flickering Shadows and Northland Courage in North-West Stories, Nov 1925.
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How To Get Natural Antibiotics for UTI Strep Sinus Infection in State of Emergency
“When were antibiotics invented?”
It’s not a matter of human invention — antibiotics were discovered from Nature.
We think of antibiotics being “invented” in 1928 by Alexander Fleming. But mouldy bread, the source of penicillin, has been used as a medical treatment for centuries.
Honey has been used for its healing qualities since the dawn of civilization.
Traces of tetracycline have been found in skeletons dating from the time of Christ. Tetracycline? Where did they naturally find that? It was in the ancient beer!
Monks and nuns were growing highly effective herbs in their Medieval monastic gardens. Those herbs, along with other healing plants, are still in use today — used by the Knowledgeable Few.
Yup, natural antibiotics for infection are part of our history, not only for humans but dogs and horses and all our other family members.
And they were used effectively by our great grandparents.
Getting Natural Antibiotics in a Time of Emergency
And now, at the time of this writing, we’re staying home because of that damned (and frightening) Covid 19. State of Emergency. Lockdown.
It’s getting difficult to go out and get antibiotics for everything from sinus, tooth, UFI infections to even simple cuts and scrapes. Brick-and-mortar stores have run out. Online retail sites are “Out of stock!” Even some pharmacies are closing.
To learn more about Natural Antibiotics, here’s an important Guest Blog Post from Christopher M Jarvis.
“Natural Antibiotics & Probiotics” by Christopher M Jarvis.
If you have ever been bitten by a wild animal, received a nasty cut, or perhaps were the unlucky recipient of a sexually transmitted disease, your friendly doctor probably prescribed you antibiotics. Antibiotics are medications that kill off, or slow down the growth of bacteria. Penicillin and Amoxicillin are two commonly prescribed antibiotics.
The problem with synthetic antibiotics is the human body’s ability to become resistant to these medications. Every time you take an antibiotic, your body builds up more of a tolerance towards it. Therefore, taking antibiotics for every bacterial related illness you catch, weakens the body’s ability to fight off infection. The good news is that there are ways to prevent infection and boost your immune system without these drugs!
Long before Alexander Fleming, a Nobel Prize winning bacteriologist, discovered these antibacterial medications, they existed naturally in different foods and herbs.
Natural antibiotics and antimicrobials occur largely in onions and garlic, herbs, honey, cabbage, and fermented foods such as raw unpasteurized sauerkraut, raw pickles, and probiotic yogurt. All of these foods boost your immune system and have antibiotic properties. These foods support healthy digestion and will help your body’s defense against infectious diseases.
Antibiotics & Vitamin-Rich Foods
Foods high in vitamin C such as Cabbage, Kale, Oranges and citrus fruits, Tomatoes, Papaya, Bell Peppers, and Kiwi all have great immune boosting natural antibiotic properties. These fruits and vegetables are packed with antioxidants that help protect cells against free radicals (unstable molecules) that may cause cancer.
Raw sauerkraut, raw pickles, and probiotic yogurt contain good microorganisms that aid in digestion. This good bacteria replaces bad bacteria in the gut, providing further defense against infection. Eating a diet high in these types of foods will help you fight off bad bacteria and improve your overall health and wellbeing.
What about the Onions and Garlic you ask? Onions and garlic contain natural antibacterial properties in the form of sulfur compounds. These compounds and are used as anti-inflammatories and help protect the body against colds and flu.
Honey’s natural antibiotic properties were discovered way before doctor prescribed medicines were created. Honey has a naturally occurring enzyme that releases hydrogen peroxide in the body. Hydrogen peroxide has the ability to stop the growth of different types of bacteria that could otherwise spread and cause illness.
Herbs such as aloe, licorice and just about any other herb you can think of have good antibacterial properties that will help in the fight against infection. Aloe has is commonly applied to cuts, scraps, and burns to provide faster healing and prevent bacterial infection. It is also active against herpes simplex type 1 and type 2. Licorice is active against strep, e-coli, staph infection, and even tuberculosis.
These all natural antibiotics when incorporated into your daily diet will promote a strong immune system. When your body needs a little backup to fight against an army of bacteria, consuming these foods will aid in your body’s defense. So the next time you feel a cold coming on, scrape your knee, or burn your hand on that dinner pot, reach for a natural antibiotic to aid in your quick recovery!
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“Woman Attacked By Jaguar!” Jaguars seem to be the forgotten Big Cats. They’re a threatened species and yet the only time they make the news is when one attacks a human. Instead of covering the story of one lady seeking a “Jaguar selfie,” the media should be covering the recent determined attempts to save these beautiful animals of the Americas from extinction.
At least there was a definite win for jaguars a week ago. It was at the 13th Conference of Parties of the UN Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals in Gandhinagar, “the Evergreen City of India.” We saw concerned governments approve listing the species for the first time to protect it across its entire range.
“Urgent action is vital to save the Jaguar,” IFAW recently announced in a press release. “With 40 percent of its habitat having been lost over the last 100 years. While also a target of illegal wildlife trade, further destruction of habitat and critical migratory corridors likely poses the greatest threat to the survival of this iconic animal The Jaguar is the largest native cat in the Americas and third largest Big Cat in the world.” [1]
The parties listed “protections for the species, which ranges across 19 states from the US down to Argentina and almost every country in between.”
Matt Collis, Director and head of IFAW’s delegation at CMS (Conservation of Migratory Species), welcomed the decision. He said, “This is an important conservation win for jaguars…
“IFAW was strongly supportive of the proposal to provide protection for this animal. Which is emblematic of the problems facing many migratory species. Halting the loss of habitat and destruction of migratory corridors is vital. Especially for isolated and endangered populations, if the jaguar is to survive across the Americas.” [2]
Director Collis continued, “CMS offers a unique opportunity to ensure we step up to protect these animals across their range. It’s critical to have these safeguards in place for this species if we are to help sustain it in both the shorter and longer term.”
Are Jaguars endangered? If so, why are Jaguars an endangered species?
While the Jaguar has been classed as “Near Threatened” worldwide, 13 range states have now declared the Jaguar to be “Endangered.” Four other states as “Vulnerable.” And, tragically, two have already confirmed “Local Extinctions.”
Co-proposed by six countries in Latin America, this was the highest ever number of co-proponents for a proposal at CMS. Excluding those sponsored collectively by all EU member states. This demonstrates the strength of regional support for this flagship species.
“Jaguars typify the problems faced by large mammals crossing fragmented habitats between national borders,” said Matt Collis.
“Studies have found at least 26 trans-boundary populations of jaguar – where regular movement across international boundaries can occur as the animals search for mates and food. Maintaining connections between small sub-populations of jaguars that move across borders is critical to protect them across their range and the place they call home.”
IFAW has concluded that while the Jaguar is the only one of the Five Big Cats to not be completely listed as Endangered. “Time is running out for this remarkable species.”
They will work hard “to help prevent the Jaguar from undergoing the same fate as their big feline cousins. We will look to disrupt criminal networks, professionalize detection and prosecution by government officials, and ban poachers from the jaguars’ habitats in countries such as Bolivia, Suriname, and Guyana.”
This is hopeful news on the wildlife front. Long may our beautiful jaguars survive and thrive!
[1] The Five Big Cats: the Jaguar is the third largest Big Cat in the world, after the Tiger and the Lion. The other two are the Leopard and the Snow Leopard. Although our North American Cougar (aka Puma, Mountain Lion or Panther) is bigger than the Leopard, it’s not classified as a Big Cat because it can’t roar. But cougars can purr.
[2] About the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) – “The International Fund for Animal Welfare is a global non-profit helping animals and people thrive together. We are experts and everyday people, working across seas, oceans and in more than 40 countries around the world. We rescue, rehabilitate and release animals, and we restore and protect their natural habitats. The problems we’re up against are urgent and complicated. To solve them, we match fresh thinking with bold action. We partner with local communities, governments, non-governmental organisations and businesses. Together, we pioneer new and innovative ways to help all species flourish.” See how at ifaw.org.
Are Jaguars Endangered – Why are Jaguars an Endangered Species
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The good folks at GoodReads must have caught on that, above all else, I love Animal Stories. Because most of the titles they’ve awarded me fall into this category.
So opening up my latest package and finding an Advance Readers’ Edition of THE FINDERS: A Mystery from Minotaur Books (St Martin’s Press) was a delight. That Golden Retriever on the cover was promising. And author Jeffrey B Burton keeps that promise.
I’ve always loved animal stories, including those of dogs. Even as a kid, I was captured by the wilderness short stories of Charles G D Roberts and Jack London’s THE CALL OF THE WILD. And I was given old books, mostly of the bygone Northwestern genre — many of them featuring a red-coated Canadian Mountie and his faithful dog, which was both his sled team leader and partner in crime solving. Like Jack O’Brien’s SILVER CHIEF: Dog of the North, the rousing adventure of Sgt Jim Thorne and a savage wolfdog…
Today the K9 story is thriving, from the new Citytv series HUDSON & REX (a Burhoe family fave!) to a growing number of Detective and Service Dog mysteries. They spread across the Mystery spectrum from Cozies to Thrillers.
THE FINDERS is the first in Jeffrey B Burton’s Mace Reid K-9 Mystery series.
Meet Mason “Mace” Reid, who trains cadaver dogs. He doesn’t like being called a “dog whisperer.” But it fits.
And his rescue dog Elvira — he calls her Vira — a talented Golden Retriever who becomes a mystery in herself.
As well as Delta Dawn and Maggie May, short-haired farm collies, sisters, lots of love. The alpha German Shepherd, a boy named Sue — Mace likes country music.
Officer Kippy Gimm, Chicago Police, a woman with her own mysteries, but worth uncovering. And she loves dogs.
And a serial killer. More than one, it turns out.
The puppy wasn’t supposed to be alive. Just a little pile of blankets and golden hair in a closed garage filled with car exhaust. But then the retriever staggered toward a disbelieving Kippy Gimm, who held the puppy and called her Honey Bear.
Ten months later the golden retriever, now called Vira, was on her first “find.” Searching for the body of a female murder victim. Mace Reid was amazed at the ease of his dog’s success. Then Vira did something that shocked the dog trainer — and resulted in his beloved young dog getting locked in the Chicago Animal Care and Control center with a kill order against her.
So begins a story of breathtaking twists and surprises. Unrelenting. And soon the hunted becomes the hunter, determined to kill the dog trainer and the woman cop — and the strangely perceptive Golden Retriever…
Five years ago, author Jeffrey B Burton was given the International Thriller Writers ThrillerFest’s Best First Sentence award for writing “Jennie chewed through relationships like a teething puppy.”
A sentence that combines his favorite genre, the Thriller, with themes that certainly haunt his latest published work: relationships and dogs.
Jeffrey developed his skills on numerous magazines, with stories in the mystery, horror, science-fiction and fantasy fields. Then made his bones with his Agent Drew Cady Mystery series.
THE FINDERS is dark and brutal at times. And lately I’ve gravitated to the Cozies. I’ve reached the age when I like sentiment and love in my fiction, as I do in my life. But — Doggone it! — I just kept turning the pages of this one until they ran out.
Yup, Five Stars. I loved THE FINDERS: A Mystery. I’ve never read Jeffrey before but I’m going to be seeking him out. After all, he loves Pomeranians and Beagles, or at least one of each. The book reviews are saying THE CHESSMAN is his best. Good place to start, eh?
And, yes, already waiting for the Mace Reid K-9 Mystery Book II.
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American Humane Seeks to Help, Improve and Save Lives of More Veterans and Animals in Need of Forever Homes with “Pups4Patriots” Program.
Pups4Patriots Dogs for PTSD: Pups For Patriots in Need of Forever Homes
It’s been an ongoing tragedy, this treatment of our returned war vets. As I wrote in my post War Vets & Wounded Warriors: Remembrance, Healing & Horses, “The most stirring stories we’re hearing today are about support groups. Service dogs…”
When our military men and women return from action, they often carry wounds the rest of us cannot see. Up to one in five veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress. And, sadly, more than 6,000 veterans die each year from suicide. When medicines and therapy fall short, trained service dogs can make a difference.
To help these veterans, American Humane was joined last week at Eau Palm in Manalapan, Florida by more than 300 people. They included several generals, a rear admiral, 100 veterans and retired military warriors. Also 200 veterans’ advocates, including internationally renowned philanthropist Lois Pope, in support of the organization’s “Pups4Patriots” program.
“There are many worthy causes in the world. But few inspire more people than working to help our nation’s brave veterans and our nation’s animals in need,” said American Humane President and CEO Dr. Robin Ganzert.
“Tonight, with your help, and the support of some of the nation’s leading advocates for our military heroes and homeless animals, we will save more lives. On both ends of the leash.” [1]
American Humane’s “Pups4Patriots” program identifies dogs in need of forever homes. And trains them to be lifesaving service dogs free of charge for veterans with PTS and Traumatic Brain Injury. Improving and often saving lives on either ends of each healing leash.
The process of obtaining a PTS service dog can take between 18 and 24 months, and cost upward of $30,000.
A cost that is out of reach for so many veterans. There are too few trained service dogs available for our service men and women in need. American Humane provides critically necessary training and service dogs to veterans in need.
“Nothing is more important than giving our veterans the weapons to win their private battles here at home,” said Major General James “Spider” Marks.
Who continued, “American Humane’s 104 years of experience in supporting our country’s service men, women and military animals gives them deep insights into how to better protect those who have spent a lifetime protecting us.”
Admiral Thomas Kearney, a board member of American Humane, explained, “I am honored to be a small part of this remarkable organization. One that has a long history of seeing a need and taking solid action to make things right. From the first animal rescues at the end of WWI, to today, American Humane has been dedicated to helping our veterans in need. And is now devoting their time and efforts toward enabling the life-changing affects that these dogs can have on them.”
“Last year as I sat in this room, I was moved by the meaningful work that American Humane was doing through Pups4Patriots.
“I decided that I didn’t just want to be a bystander,” added Mel Coleman, vice president of Coleman Natural Foods. “That’s why we pledged to fund the training for more than two dozen dogs over the next few years.”
Pups4Patriots is the latest in a number of essential programs to give our returned war vets the help they deserve.
If so, you’ll want to see my popular Wounded Warriors & Horses article.
“Navy veteran Jessenia Smith and her husband Truitt experienced the healing nature of caring for horses at a Wounded Warrior Project equine therapy workshop. Their love for animals enhanced the workshop’s impact and helped them interact with other veterans.”
[1] American Humane is the country’s first national humane organization.”
It’s been working with the U.S. military for more than 100 years. When they rescued and cared for 68,000 war horses wounded each month on the battlefields of World War I Europe. Through their Lois Pope LIFE Center for Military Affairs, the nonprofit organization now work to provide service dogs for veterans with PTS and TBI. While helping arrange for free healthcare for our four-footed warriors, and repatriate and reunite retired war dogs with their former handlers. For more information, visit www.americanhumane.org and follow them on Facebook and Twitter.
Source: American Humane, PR Newswire & Civilized Bears
Pups4Patriots Dogs for PTSD: Pups For Patriots in Need of Forever Homes
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“The wolves swung in behind, yelping in chorus. And Buck ran with them, side by side with the wild brother, yelping as he ran.” – Jack London, THE CALL OF THE WILD
Animal Stories for Adults: On the Screen – Movies & Television – Call of the Wild to Hudson & Rex
When Jack London published THE CALL OF THE WILD in 1903, he wasn’t aware that he was creating a cultural phenomenon. The Klondike-set novel would be hailed as a beloved literary masterpiece and thrilling adventure story.
Inspired by the realistic animal stories of Canadian author Charles G D Roberts as well as Jack’s own struggles in the harsh, dangerous Klondike, THE CALL OF THE WILD would be the first in a brand new Literary Genre: the Northwestern.
The Northwestern category, including Animal Stories, would soon become a worldwide success.
Stories of action and romance in the land of snows, sled dogs, wild wolves and stalwart men of the North-West Mounted Police.
And CALL OF THE WILD would be the most successful Northwestern screen story. It was made into seven major movies and an hourly television program shown first on Animal Planet. And inspiring even more Northern-set dog stories.
Yet Jack London’s Buck wasn’t the first Hollywood canine character.
Meet Strongheart
Strongheart, a German Shepherd, had first appeared in 1921 and, in silent movies such as THE SILENT CALL, NORTH STAR, WHITE FANG and THE LOVE MASTER, became immensely popular in the U. S. and Canada.
Theatre audiences rose to their feet cheering the scene in THE LOVE MASTER when Strongheart pulls his mistress on narrow cross-country skis.
It was a thrilling, desperate “race for life” from a pack of hungering, unrelenting wolves across the snowy Canadian wilds! [See Printed Trade Ad at bottom of this page]
Strongheart’s owner and movie director, Lawrence Trimble, wrote the biography STRONGHEART: THE STORY OF A WONDER DOG, published in 1926 by Whitman. Trimble wrote, “His human counterparts on screen were pleased with Strongheart. For even though he tore their clothes to shreds, he never left a mark of fang or nail on any actor.”
Strongheart’s handler, John Allen Boone, produced LETTERS TO STRONGHEART, a sentimental remembrance published by Prentice-Hall in 1939.
Rin-Tin-Tin, a genuinely gifted and intelligent German Shepherd, captivated audiences from his first film appearance in 1922. He would become the first world-wide canine superstar. Rinty was found in a bombed-out building at a WWI German airfield by American soldier Lee Duncan.
Duncan took Rin-Tin-Tin home to California and began to train him for a Hollywood career.
Rinty’s first film appearance was in the iconic dog role of the times: a Mountie dog. It was in the Northwestern MAN FROM HELL’S RIVER, Rin-Tin-Tin played a sled dog of a Canadian Mounted Policeman.
From early movies like WHERE THE NORTH BEGINS, THE LAND OF THE SILVER FOX and CLASH OF THE WOLVES to the fascinating THE NIGHT CRY, Rinty drew audiences to the movies. And with more star-power than most human actors of the time.
In 1954, Rin Tin Tin IV was the star of the TV show THE ADVENTURES OF RIN TIN TIN.
The ABC television series starred Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid. Rusty was raised by the soldiers stationed in the US Cavalry post Fort Apache. Rusty and his German Shepherd Rinty are around whenever adventure begins. Episode titles included “The Wild Stallion,” “The White Buffalo” and “The Old Man of the Mountain.”
CALL OF THE WILD hits the Silver Screen
Hal Roach Studios released the first silent movie version of CALL OF THE WILD in 1923. The dog — actually named Buck — had been raised and trained by film producer Sol Lesser. He raised him from a full-blooded St. Bernard puppy with the role of Jack London’s beloved Buck in mind.
Although the dog breed in London’s original THE CALL OF THE WILD was a St. Bernard mix, the most common dog breed used in the movie versions is the German Shepherd.
Other dog stars of the Silver Screen and TV were Jean (The Vitagraph Dog), Cyclone, Champion, Ranger, Ace the Wonder Dog, Peter the Great (WILD JUSTICE, 1925), Napoleon Bonaparte, Sandow (CODE OF THE NORTHWEST, 1926) and Wolfheart. As well as Braveheart, Kazan the Wonder Dog (JAWS OF JUSTICE, 1933), Grey Shadow, Thunder, Lightnin’, Dynamite and Chinook (NORTHERN PATROL, 1953 — last of Monogram/Allied Artists’ Northwest Mountie series).
Lassie, of course, would become one of the Hollywood giants, along with others, from Terry (Toto) and Benji (a small mixed-breed, “perhaps a bit of spaniel”) to Spike (Old Yeller) and Beasly (Hooch — a Dogue de Bordeaux or French Mastif).
London the Littlest Hobo continues to be a perennial fave. As well as Koton (Jerry Lee of the K-9 movies), Rudolph Von Holstein III (a descendant of Rin-Tin-Tin, aka Rudy), Lincoln (Diefenbaker the wolf dog of Paul Gross’ DUE SOUTH — a modern day Mountie dog), Sandy (a slow-paced Basset Hound who played Flash on DUKES OF HAZZARD), Buddy (Air Bud), Chris (Beethoven), Enzo the Dog (Skip), Moose (cute Jack Russell terrier who played Eddie on FRASIER). Recent doggie faves are Uggy (the Jack Russell in THE ARTIST) and Diesel (Togo — Diesel’s a descendant of Togo, the Siberian husky who led the dog team making the 1925 serum run to Nome, Alaska). There are more.
Remember THE LITTLEST HOBO? A Canadian classic, eh?
Animal Stories: The latest TV canine hit is Canada’s own HUDSON & REX.
Shown on CityTV, John Reardon is Detective Charlie Hudson of the St. John’s Police Department and Diesel von Burgimwald — a German Shepherd and former K9 — is Rex. Rex, with his acute canine senses and intelligence, is central to solving the crime of the week.
Episodes of the new second season include “Game of Bones,” ” The Woods Have Eyes” and “Rex Machina.” Other actors include Mayko Nguyen, Sarah Truong, Kevin Hanchard and Justin Kelly. The series is filmed on location in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Coincidence or fate? About first being offered the role, John Reardon said, “My wife and I, we just had a little boy named Hudson. He was probably about 10 months old when I first received the script.”
HUDSON & REX is produced by Shaftesbury Films, best known for MURDOCH MYSTERIES. We never miss an episode of REX in this household. Love ’em!
And now THE CALL OF THE WILD is back on the screen.
The production company described its storyline as “A domesticated St. Bernard/Scotch Collie dog named Buck is stolen from his Santa Clara, California home and sold to freight haulers in the Canadian Yukon.”
Starring Harrison Ford as John Thornton, the 20th Century Studios’ release has a film score by John Powell of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON fame.
Actor and stunt coordinator Terry Notary worked his magic in bringing Buck to life. Notary is renowned for his creations in AVATAR, AVENGERS: ENDGAME, the Planet of the Apes reboot series, and The Hobbit film trilogy.
Directed by Chris Sanders, produced by Erwin Stoff, the screenplay was written by Michael Green. Cinematography by Janusz Kaminski, known for his work on SCHINDLER’S LIST, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and WAR HORSE.
“But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights. Listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest. Reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book. And seeking for the mysterious something that called. Called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.” – Jack London, THE CALL OF THE WILD.
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Charlie Daniels has done ’em all in his successful Sixty year career. From early Rock&Roll, through Bluegrass, R&B, Gospel, Blues, Country, Southern Country, Campfire Songs and Cowboy Tunes.
The Christian message has been an essential element of Canadian Mountie Fiction from its beginning.
Guardians of the North is actually a well-written and well-researched series.
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As a young Anglican priest, the blacksmith’s son had served in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, keeping copious journals. He returned home where he was eventually appointed Archdeacon of Saint John. And where he and his wife Jessie raised their three sons.
The picture on the cover of THE LONG PATROL to the left was printed courtesy of the Fox Film Corporation.
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Augustus “Gus” William De Herries Smith, the son of a ship’s doctor, was born in County Cork, Ireland in 1881. After a wandering life in the South Pacific, he settled in Canada.
De Herries Smith published numerous short stories in the pulp magazines of the 1920’s to mid 40’s, especially in North-West Stories (later retitled North-West Romances), as well as Action Stories, Adventure, All Star Western & Frontier Magazine, Argosy All-Star Weekly, Dime Adventure Magazine, Frontier Stories, Lariat Story Magazine, Outdoor Stories, Short Stories and Wild West Weekly.
In fact, it was common in those times for a prolific, popular author to have a number of stories in a single magazine issue, each one under a different name.
Mounties, Wolves & Pulp Writers: North-West Stories and A De Herries Smith.
Matt Collis, Director and head of IFAW’s delegation at CMS (Conservation of Migratory Species), welcomed the decision. He said, “This is an important conservation win for jaguars…
Meet Mason “Mace” Reid, who trains cadaver dogs. He doesn’t like being called a “dog whisperer.” But it fits.
Five years ago, author Jeffrey B Burton was given the International Thriller Writers ThrillerFest’s Best First Sentence award for writing “Jennie chewed through relationships like a teething puppy.”
American Humane’s “Pups4Patriots” program identifies dogs in need of forever homes. And trains them to be lifesaving service dogs free of charge for veterans with PTS and Traumatic Brain Injury. Improving and often saving lives on either ends of each healing leash.
Rinty’s first film appearance was in the iconic dog role of the times: a Mountie dog. It was in the Northwestern MAN FROM HELL’S RIVER, Rin-Tin-Tin played a sled dog of a Canadian Mounted Policeman.
