Kootenai Brown: Canada's Unknown Frontiersman

256 pp. "John George Brown (10 October 1839 – 18 July 1916), better known as "Kootenai" Brown, was an Irish-born Canadian polymath, soldier, trader and conservation advocate. He proved unsuccessful as a prospector, turning to trapping and then briefly policing, serving as constable in Wild Horse Creek, British Columbia[2] (now gone). In 1865, he moved on, to Waterton Lakes , being wounded by a Blackfoot on his way to Fort Garry (now Winnipeg), where he settled and became a whisky trader.[2] Subsequent to that, he worked briefly for a company delivering mail to the United States Army until 1874, during which time he was captured and nearly killed by Sitting Bull in 1869.[2] After a quarrel (and obligatory gunfight) at Fort Benton, Montana, with "celebrated hunter" Louis Ell, in which Ell was killed, and subsequent trial and acquittal by a territorial jury,[2] Brown returned to his beloved Kootenay, where he settled, building a reputation as a guide and packer. Always arguing vigorously for the region's preservation, after the Kootenay Forest Reserve was established in 1895, Brown became a fishery officer and in 1910, a forest ranger.[2] He lived to see the reserve expanded into Waterton Lakes National Park, which became contiguous with Glacier National Park in Montana, in 1914."--Wikipedia