{"product_id":"kootenai-brown-canadas-unknown-frontiersman","title":"Kootenai Brown: Canada's Unknown Frontiersman","description":"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","brand":"Heritage House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320592875590,"sku":"2312292","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2312292.jpg?v=1620923838","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/kootenai-brown-canadas-unknown-frontiersman","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}