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Arc of the Medicine Line (Nonfiction)

by | Jun 23, 2008 | Western Books

Tony Rees, University of Nebraska Press, $29.95, Hardcover.
Here is the story of the mapping of the “Medicine Line,” the segment of the U.S.-Canada border across the Great Plains (named so by the Indians because U.S. Cavalry, pursuing hostiles, “superstitiously” pulled up at the line). This section, from Manitoba’s Lake of the Woods to the Rockies, was the last to be determined after the eastern border and the Bri


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