Charcoal's World

Can$16.95
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Hugh Dempsey
Born the son of a great Blackfoot leader, Charcoal and his beliefs had no place in a world recently transformed by white man’s rules. Clinging to his people’s traditions, he came into conflict with the new laws of the land and became a wanted outlaw.

The Charcoal story is a saga of adultery, murder, pursuit and destruction that is legendary, and historian Hugh Dempsey recalls with evocative detail the pressures and events that made it so. Beneath the sensational aspects of the case is the moving story of a desperate man at the mercy of forces beyond his control. Charcoal’s struggle is emblematic of a larger struggle between the conflicting values and cultures of turn-of-the-century Canada and a relationship between white men and Natives fraught with mistrust and misunderstanding.

Originally published in 1978, Charcoal’s World draws upon oral histories and archival records to recapture the passion and despair of a man fighting for his beliefs. It is a book that will be remembered for its compassion and historical importance as well as its tragic story.

 

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