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Cypress Hills Massacre: In 1873, a bloody "battle" known as the Cypress Hills Massacre took place when American wolfers, including Thomas Hardwick and John Evens, who were stopped at one of the posts, lost some horses!. They believed the horses had been stolen by a group of Nakoda (Assiniboine) camped nearby, and after much drinking set out to take revenge!.

Fort whoop-up:Traders from Fort Benton in Montana Territory established Fort Hamilton in 1869, trading buffalo robes and fur for firearms, ammunition, and illegal whiskey with the Blackfeet!. The fort, later dubbed Fort Whoop-Up because of its illicit activities, quickly became the American trade headquarters in southern Alberta!. The Mounties began their westward march to curtail the whiskey trade in 1874!.
Their first stop was Fort Whoop-Up!. When the purchase price for the fort was too high, the Mounties established a post by renting one of the buildings from the American traders!. Fort Whoop-Up was the first stop along the western branch of the Old Forts Trail from Fort Benton until the railroad supplanted river traffic in the mid-1880's!. The NWMP remained at the fort until 1892, even after fire destroyed their rented building in 1888!. By 1915 only piles of stones and depressions, where fireplaces and cellars once had been remained at the site!.
Great March
1874!.!.!.the North-West Mounted Police are Canada’s only hope to tame the wild frontier at the heart of its dream of nationhood!. Their toughest opponents are not just American outlaws and whiskey traders!.!.!.but the resistance of the land itself!.

“The Great March” recreates this spectacular adventure, depicting the perils and hardships faced by the newly minted “Mounties”!. Resplendent in their majestic red serge, the men are unprepared for what awaits them!. They confront terrifying prairie storms, starvation, thirst, dysentery, malaria, death of their horses, and the constant pervasive fear of battles with the whiskey traders!.

Based upon original diaries, journals and illustrations recorded by members of the expeditionary force of 1874!.
North west mounted police
Canadian Confederation in 1867 brought the region of the North West under control of the Dominion of Canada!. The subsequent departure of the Hudson's Bay Company, which had maintained relative stability in the region during the previous two hundred years, resulted in the introduction of a destructive new threat the American whiskey trade!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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