Walter Hildebrandt is known as both a poet and historian. A consultant on Aboriginal treaties, he is author of Views From Battleford: Constructed Visions of an Anglo-Canadian West and co-author of The Cypress Hills: The Land and Its People and The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7, which won the Gustavus Myers Award for outstanding work on intolerance in North America in 1997. Winnipeg from the Fringes, his eighth book of poetry, was published in 2011. An earlier volume, Where the Land Gets Broken, received the 2005 Stephen G. Stephensson Award for Poetry.
CONTENTS
Maps
Illustrations
List of Sidebars
Foreword by Jean Teillet
Preface to the Revised Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
Part I
The Battle of Batoche, May 9-12, 1885
Prelude to Battle
May 9: Incapacitating the Northcote
May 9: Firefight for Mission Ridge
May 9: The Métis Offensive
May 9: Building the Zareba
May 10 and 11: A Plan Develops
May 12: The Final Day
After the Battle
Part II
Strategy and Tactics
Riel and Dumont: The Strategy to Defend Batoche
Tactics of the Metis
Middleton and the North-West Field Force
Middleton's Tactics in Retrospect
Epilogue
Notes
Select Bibliography
