A Bond forged in Whitewater

Summary

In 1870, the rivers of British North America became the proving ground for an unlikely friendship. As the Red River Expedition under General Wolseley pushed through Canada’s northwest, a British officer Lieutenant W.F. Butler struggled through the whitewater of the Winnipeg River to bring important intelligence to the general in the company of Prince, an Ojibwe bowsman whose mastery of the river was unchallenged. Bound together by danger and endurance, they travelled the continent as far as the ...