The last buffalo hunter

Description:

Anecdotes from an oral account of the old North-West by a Métis hunter and trader, Norbert Welsh, who lived through the end times of the buffalo and the early white settlement of the prairies, interacted with men such as Chief Starblanket and Louis Riel, witnessed rituals like the Sun Dance and told how men travelled and lived toward the end of the 19th century in the land that became Saskatchewan.

subjects: American bison,  Anecdotes,  Biographies,  Biography,  Bisons d'Amérique,  Canadian Northwest,  Chasseurs,  Frontier and pioneer life,  Fur trade,  Fur traders,  History,  Hunters,  Hunting,  Indians of North America,  Indiens,  Northwest, Canadian,  Vie des pionniers,  Fiction, westerns

People: Norbert Welsh (b. 1845),  Norbert Welsh (n. 1845)

Places: Amérique du Nord,  Canada,  Canadian Northwest,  Nord-Ouest canadien

Times: 19th century