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Title "A Sketch of Whoop Up", Weekly Missoulian
Archival Reference M-4561-47
Sub-collection Southern Alberta Research Project  
Date 14 Jan 1884
Document Type Newspapers and magazines
Contents 6 pages relating to Fort Whoop-up and various violent attacks made upon both the First Peoples and the American frontiersmen.
Sub-collection Information This collection was compiled by Eleanor Luxton, a Glenbow Museum staff member, who was hired from 1956 to 1961 to gather information pertaining to southern Alberta pioneers, North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), Presbyterian missionaries, Fort Whoop Up, whiskey traders, Fort Benton, newspaper and newspaper editors, First Nations of Canada, and southern Alberta history in general. The information came primarily from interviews with pioneers and their descendants, and from articles in Montana and Alberta newspapers.

The collection consists of alphabetically arranged biographical files, typescripts of newspaper articles and research notes, and photographs of NWMP, oldtimers and general views of southern Alberta. Consists of these series: Fort Benton and Montana (1867-1956); North-West Mounted Police - General (1872-1947); North-West Mounted Police - Detachments and outposts (1882-1955); North-West Mounted Police - Old timers (1913-1957); Southern Alberta newspapers and editors (1923-1955); Presbyterian Church and ministers (1883-1926; First Nations of Canada (1877-1954); High River pioneers (compiled 1956-1960); Southern Alberta general history (compiled 1956-1961); and photographs (1870s-1930s).
Region American Midwest  
Subjects Alcohol  Canadian Mounted Police  Fur Trade  Wildlife and Nature  Death  Violence  Assiniboine  Law and Order  Mixed-Race People  Missionary  Weaponry  First Nations  Indigenous Peoples  
Places Missoula; Montana
People McDougall, George  Twain, Mark  
Themes Warfare & Military History
Library Glenbow Museum  
Copyright Glenbow Museum