Canada, Policing, Mounted police, Biography, Alberta 

Contents:

1. "Little oasis in a desert" : Lethbridge division 1888-1892 -- a. Monthly report -- b. Land and weather -- c. Native people -- d. Livestock -- e. Liquor -- 2. "Thick skulls" and "soiled doves" : Lethbridge division, 1893-1897 -- a. Economic circumstances and labour strife -- b. The underside of Lethbridge -- c. The killing of Dave Akers -- d. Gender relations -- e. The Flotsam and Jetsam of society -- 3. "Submission to constituted authority" : Macleod and Lethbridge divisions 1898-1902 -- a. The Crow's Nest Pass railway -- b. Cultures in conflict -- c. The town of Macleod -- d. The Mormon community -- e. A cattle smuggling operation -- 4. Rugged individualism : Medicine Hat and Southeastern Alberta 1902-1906 -- a. Non-treaty Indians -- b. Robber on the range -- c. Prostitution in Medicine Hat -- d. Death by water -- e. Desertions -- 5. Five worlds : Calgary division 1906-1909 -- a. Death and struggle in the working man's world -- b. The troubled world of women -- c. The problematic world of the Nose Creek brothels -- d. The embattled world within the mounted police -- e. The genteel world of the elite -- 6. Killers, fooks and perverts : Calgary division 1910-1914 -- a. Characteristics of growth -- b. Violent crime -- c. Decline of the West -- d. Absurdities of the moral reformers.