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and adventurers, also for the wonder- ful work in bringing to trial the guilty ones having to do with the 1885 Louis Riel rebellion and their handling of the Klondike gold rush.

As the duties of the force spread “Northwest” was dropped from the title and it became known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920.

Olson tells of the diplomatic hand- ling by men of the force of some of the ticklish problems that grew from the depression years, when restless unemployed armies were moving across Canada, some with the sole pur- pose of impressing Ottawa of the need for some action; others in an angry mood, defiant and prepared to take issue with anyone representing au- thority. They were tragic years of the hungry thirties and included in the marchers were men who had served their country in World War I. skilled tradesmén who could find no place for their skill and younger men gradu- ated to the working ranks but with- out a sign of a job to get started.

All were tired, hungry, depressed and discouraged, the author recalls.

He writes a dramatic chapter of his first meeting with such a group. Noticing many men wearing service buttons he made his appeal to the veterans. His orders were to get the men to move on, and to search them for arms. It was the attitude of some of the older men who kept some of the hot-headed younger men in check that enabled the mountie to complete his mission successfully.

“It was a pitiable sight to see them move on to be shooed away again—

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Another section of.the book tells of the highly important security work done by the force in World War II.

Olson had exciting and amusing experiences of his own which his amazingly retentive memory for de- tail has recaptured for the reader. Through the pages of his exciting autobiography flow stirring accounts of murder, lost patrols, chases through the frozen wastes, courts held in Eskimo communities and -rebellious Doukhobors who strip. naked in demonstrations.

Every detail of life in the mounties -—the nature and organization of the service, the training of new recruits, the updating of its crime and crime prevention techniques is clearly re- ported: by the author.

The author clearly proves the point he sets out to establish—that lore, — tradition and esprit de corps has made the figure of the Canadian mountie a byword for adventure and heroism.

(“I Jotned the Mounties,” by Oscar Olson, Pageant Press, Inc., 130 W. 42nd Street, New York, 36, N.Y., U.S.A.) kK &

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