McKay Jenkins

Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: Madness, Murder, and the Collision of Cultures in the Arctic, 1913

New York: Random House, 2005. Hardcover. 8vo. 278 pp.. Illustrated. Dramatic history of a 1913 incident in the Canadian Arctic that includes a remarkable criminal investigation and an encounter of First World culture with a remote Native American group that alters white and aboriginal relations in the region. A pair of Catholic priest purse a mission among isolated hunter-gathers on the remote Coppermine River and are killed in grisly fashion. The episode sparks a criminal investigation by Canadian and the destruction of a unique culture. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Item #328202567

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