120 10 1402 https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/940bae3cd790500f23b95efa690cf5f1.jpg 5db393ccbd68dc0314641b45b71158e1 https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/4f612d05eb70a3b129905f4aed0400dd.jpg db7b503abbcdc350aba621aa0b4fb73a https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/d5278618231a74aa9eea74bd689ac44b.jpg 64ece4e10bd5195bddbca940823f933a Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Text Any textual data included in the document. Transcription November 18 1912 Dear Colonel Steele, Your letter of 16th inst to hand, am sorry you could not visit Maple Creek this Fall we are getting anxious about the commencement of the Armory Building & you could have probably given us some encouragement. I also missed you from the Stampede gathering at Calgary we had a great time renewing old aquaintances. You should get a copy of the Veterans Parade photo from Marcel at Calgary, it does not show all who were there but most of them appear. The freshest looking man of the whole bunch was Asst Comm Jst Mc I. and one of the oldest looking was Pete McDonald, but the most of them are looking good for some years yet it is a case of survival of the fittest. Regarding arrest of “Star Child” “Kakatosoinak” Jerry Potts & myself were working on the case for some months on information given by “Weasel Moccasin” Api-itskiw this is the man you mention as having been first arrested in June 1881 we heard from a woman we were familiar with that Star Child had returned & in the Blood Camp reported to may Col H.D Jarvis he sent me with Jerry, Const W. Wilson the redheaded Dentist and _____ [illegible word in parentheses] James Jarvis now Major & Cmd to get here, we left Macleod after midnight for the Blood Reserve and arrived before dawn we had a description of the locality in the Camp where he kept himself and laid close watching the lodge he was supposed to be in, at the final sign of dawn he came out of the lodge, fully armed & got sight of one & got his Winchester Carbine on me at about 10 feet away. Hold me of [sic] I made a move hand or foot he would shoot he held the gun on me for fully half an hour until I distracted his attention by appearing to speak to someone behind him, he turned finally around & I jumped on him and the carbine discharged. This alarmed the whole camp who turned out and surrounded the party. I had Star Child on the ground pretty well choked, then got the handcuffs on him. Red Crow, Strangling Wolf and “One Spot” made the other Indians leave us alone & helped us get Star Child away from the Camp, but about 200 bucks followed us to MacLeod, and in spite of the Chief. He was tried before Judge MacLeod and a jury of six some time after the arrest and acquitted “not sufficient evidence” He practically admitted his guilt a dozen times stated what he killed Graburn for but he got off. Damned Jurors made his sneak [sentence is almost illegible] into the brush when the affair started and next showed up until we were crossing Billy River he always had a yellow streak. Your book will be an interesting publication when completed and I surely must have a copy, for the experiences we all met with in the old days were well worth recording. Any assistance I can give you for recalling circumstances from 75/ on will be cheerfully rendered. Yours sincerely, D. Paterson Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Steele Collection MS 2008.1.1.1.3.12.8 Description An account of the resource Letter from David Paterson to Steele (18 November 1912) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Bruce Peel Special Collections manuscript memoir murder NWMP https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/d0f3a8b90b6a353c84a2122c2d24ff81.jpg 85fa805cfeb4bf690a802fa2d03e8d34 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Text Any textual data included in the document. Transcription November 20 1912 Dear Colonel Steele. Regarding your query for the reason of Graburn’s murder, Weasel Moccasin told Jerry that Graburn had been monkeying with a young girl, a daughter of one of his women, but not one of Weasel Moccasins own. Star Child wanted this girl himself and it seems that they had a scrap over her and that Graburn struck Star Child in the face, this happened some time before the murder, and Star Child laid for Graburn to get what he thought was an opportunity. Jerry Potts and I were in the Blood Camp nearly every day during the Spring of 1881 looking for evidence & watching for Star Child to come from across the Line, and he used to tell me as nearly as he could in English what was said. The girl herself acknowledged there had been a fight. I was not present at the whole of the proceedings in Camp, as after the first day, I was kept on the move between the fort and the Blood Reserve bringing in Indians who were wanted. I knew nearly the whole tribe then and could make myself understood fairly well, and Jerry was needed as Interpreter in the Post. I always thought they let him go to prevent trouble, but of course after working on the case I might have thought the evidence was conclusive to the Judge and Jury as it was to my mind and had been prejuged [sic] etc. Yours faithfully, D. Paterson Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Steele Collection MS 2008.1.1.1.3.12.8b Description An account of the resource Letter from David Paterson to Sam Steele (20 November 1912) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Bruce Peel Special Collections manuscript memoir murder NWMP https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/d6273ce0c8525a9ea649bc402ac47f8c.jpg 1b9a55c67170748c84019b4b4a10412b Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. Pencil sketch Text Any textual data included in the document. Sketch illustrates the CPR strike scene from Forty Years in Canada that is transcribed below: I rushed out, calling upon Mr. Johnston to get the Riot Act and come with me. Seizing the Winchester rifle from the constable on guard at the gaol, I ran to the bridge, and as the crowd was on the point of making a rush on to it, I covered them with the rifle and called upon them to halt or I would fire. They answered with curses and cries of ‘Look at the _____ ; his  own death-bed makes no difference to him!” but they halted. In the meantime the prisoner was struggling fiercely with the men who had him, but half-way across Walters raised his huge fist and struck him over the temple, and with Craig trailed him by the collar, as insensible as a rag. As the woman passed screaming, “You read coated ----------!” I said “Take her in too!” and went forward over the bridge to the crowd. By this time Johnston had joined me with the Riot Act, which he had to get to by kicking the orderly-room door open, the key being with Constable Fane, who was busy in the riot, and we stood together before the rioters. Johnston opened the book, ad I said, “Listen to this, and keep your hands off your guns, or I will shoot the first man of you who makes a hostile movement.” Johnston then read the Riot Act, and when he had finished I said, “You have taken advantage of the fact that a rebellion has broken out in the north west and that I have only a handful of men, but, as desperate diseases require desperate remedies, and both disease and remedy are here, I warn you that if I find more than twelve of you standing together or any large crowd assembled I will open fire upon you and mow you down! By this time a considerable number of engineers, respectable merchants and contractors, all well armed, had assembled at the barracks to back me up. The eight Mounted Police stood at the head of the bridge under Fury with magazines charged, ready to act when needed. Johnston and I remained where we were until the rioters had dispersed and then sent the man whom Fury had wounded to the hospital for treatmentfrom the C.P.R. doctors. Mr. Ross was very kind to him. Forty Years in Canada, 199-200 Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Pencil sketch on paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Steele Collection, Harwood Steele sketch Description An account of the resource Harwood Steele's sketch of his father's stand on the bridge during the CPR riot (date unknown) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Bruce Peel Special Collections CPR NWMP Riot https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/cebf05899f5a295193ed3a249d437dc9.jpg ba0469846cfe927c874f7d197bdeb4b2 https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/0034e17ed6fc83fccc8cddd2b1cadfde.jpg 828a0d13978ae694cbf94aabb70064b6 https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/16b71f805e279b6a537abd9e7ad15d8a.jpg 22c4713a7eebd4eeef0fd637bb458052 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Handwritten manuscript Text Any textual data included in the document. Transcription About the latter end of November one of our men was murdered by an Indian. This young fellow a mere lad, was the son of the late Captain Grayburn of the Marine department Ottawa, and a great favorite. He was one of the men on herd duty under Sergeant Giveen, and had been sent up the valley of the creek to get a picket rope and an axe which had been forgotten at a former camp ground from which the picquet [sic] had been recently moved and not returning when expected a search was made, and no trace of the lad being found a report was sent into the fort from whence a party reinforced by the men at the herd camp searched until a late hour, and patrols circled for trails in the vicinity until darkness compelled them to desist, next morning they were at it again. Colonel Macleod, Sergeants Johnston and Giveen, Constables Manseau and others with Potts at last came on the trail which had been partly covered with snow. The murdered man spoke the Blackfoot language well although he was a recruit of the previous spring and was a great favorite not only with his comrades but with the Indians as well. We learned from the trail that he had been joined by two Indians who had ridden with him between them, no doubt conversing, when one had halted suddenly and fired a shot into the lads back and he had fallen head-foremost, but there would have been no trace of the crime at that place had not Jerry Potts horse kicked up some bloody snow. A further search then revealed Grayburns hat hanging on a bush and in a ravine below it the body was found where it had been thrown by the murderers a short distance from there his horse had been led into the woods tied to a tree and shot dead. From there an attempt was made to track the murderers out on to the prairie, but a chinook wind had sprung up and melted the snow, and the ground being frozen not a trace was left. Patrols and scouts searched every crossing, every hollow where snow might lie, but in vain. The cause of this outrage was for some time a mystery. No one would believe that the lad had given the least cause for it. He was kindness itself and as he had learnt the language and could talk signs he was often seen conversing with the Indians and learning as much as he could of their manners... Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Steele Collection MS 2008.1.1.3.3.67 Subject The topic of the resource Sam Steele Description An account of the resource Murder of a NWMP officer scene, Manuscript A, 557-559 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1911-1915 manuscript memoir murder NWMP https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/569e548671db83c5ad836a78e30de50b.jpg b9d28dc1947df3b9c87068607d383116 https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/44daa056f316aa33b9524882f66b0d89.jpg dea3b8d694552821f7742ecc9c3a4cde https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/93461be7c3f383dbcaff8c1524c845e5.jpg 698b6cf3da6b809ba56de6d6c0cb29fd Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Typed manuscript with handwritte comments Text Any textual data included in the document. Transcription About the latter end of November a sad circumstance took place in the murder of one of our men by an Indian. Constable Grayburn, a son of Captain Grayburn of the Marine Department at Ottawa was the victim he was one of the horse guard at the herd camp some miles up the valle [sic] and had been sent to get a picket rope and an axe which had been forgotten at a former Camp Ground from which the Guard had recently moved and not returning when expected a search was made and a report sent in to the Fort. A party including those at the herd camp searched until a late hour and patrols circled for trails in the vicinity until they had to wait for daylight. Next morning they were at it again, Colonel Macleod, Sergeants Johnston and Giveen Constables Manseau and others with Potts at last came upon the trail that which had been partly covered with snow. The murdered man spoke the Blackfoot language well although he was a recruit of the previous spring and was a great favourite with the his comrades and the Indians as well, had he had been joined by two Indians who had ridden on each side of his, no doubt in conversation when at last one of the them bolted suddenly and fired a shot through the lad’s back. He had fallen head foremost but at the place where he was shot there would have been no trace of the crime had not Jerry Potts horse kicked up some bloody snow. A further search revealed Grayburn’s hat hanging on a bush and in a ravine and below it the body was found where it had been thrown. A little distance from there his horse had been led into the woods tied to a tree and shot dead.    an attempt was made to track the murderers out on to the prairie, but a chinook wind had melted the snow, and the ground being frozen not a trace was left. Patrols searched every crossing, every hollow where snow might still be found but in vain.  The cause of this outrage was for some time a mystery, no one would believe that the lad, for such he was, had given the slightest cause for revenge. He was kindness and itself and as he had picked up on the language and could talk sign, he was always talking conversing with them and learning as much as he could of their manners, customs, and mode of life. A clue was at last obtained which eventually led to the arrest of the murderer, it was that, a few days previous, a young constable of bad temper and no experience who had taken over from an old hand the cooking for the camp, had on finding some Indians in the cabin, who had been allowed to sit there by his predecessor and smoke their pipes, made a sudden rush for them and pushed them outdoors. One of them on whom he had laid hands turned when he got outside, made the sign of stabbing him in the heart. The wild Indian is too much of a gentleman to permit any hostile laying on of hands and anyone who does it must answer for his temerity. ______ [Illegible word crossed out] any person will do as an object upon which to wreck his vengeance, and no doubt poor Grayburn gave the Indians the first opportunity which he took advantage. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Steele Collection MS 2008.1.13.2.86 Subject The topic of the resource Sam Steele Description An account of the resource Murder of an NWMP office. Manuscript B, 548-550 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1911-1915 manuscript memoir murder NWMP https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/6af69a57f80b0f9d724f85ca4659969e.jpg 96f1ab580ee8182208833e9e7fff5c98 https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/22325a22e0df2d9d68e3fbbf91ff0a19.jpg 8963166908bfb304a138f4def775e38d Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Typed manuscript Text Any textual data included in the document. Transcription The account of the capture of Star Child is very similar to what Paterson himself describes in his letter. The portion of the manuscript that has been transcribed here is the section that ties back to Paterson’s letter. <div> </div> Crozier, Cotton, and Kennedy were playing tennis in front of the post and when they saw the escape followed the fugitives. I sent the first men who turned out mounted and headed by Constable Hooley they caught up to the Indians about half a mile distant and unheeding their levelled [sic] rifles rode at them and they were soon in their old guard room. Their attempt to escape having failed the two asked to see Crozier at midnight in his quarters, and after the windows had been covered with blankets so that no light could be seen from the outside they gave him the name, description and full particulars of the Indian who had murdered Grayburn.  A despatch was then sent to Colonel Macleod who was in Benton, to the effect that the murderer was lurking in the fastness of the Bear Paw Mountains, and he asked the American authorities in legal form for his arrest but unless he could pay at once five thousand dollars in cash the sheriff would not make the attempt. He was in consequence obliged to wait until the accused would return back into Canada when we might have an opportunity to capture him. This did not present itself until 1887 when Sergeant Patterson of C. division at MacLeod learned that he was in the Blood camp, and under orders from Lt. Col. Jarvis, Superintendent commanding proceeded there accompanied by Jerry Potts and two constables. They arrived at dawn and went to the lodge in which the murderer, Star Child by name, was concealed, the intention being to take him without alarming the camp which it was believed was hostile. The Indian came out at dawn, and fully armed, covered Patterson with his rifle telling him that he would shoot if he moved hand or foot but the Sergeant as a ruse, spoke as if he were addressing someone behind Star Child, causing him to turn his head, whereupon Patterson threw himself upon him and in the struggle the rifle went off, rousing the whole camp, and the Indians turned out in hundreds. In the mean time Patterson had the murderer beneath him, half-choked, and finally handcuffed him while Jerry Potts, Chief Red Crow, Strangling Wolf, One Spot and Constable Wilson, by threats and exhortations kept the remainder at bay. The Sergeant then took Star Child to Macleod at the full speed of his horse, supported by Potts and the Constables and followed by the majority of the band as far as the fort where they were forced to halt and turn back. Star Child confessed to the murder and there was correlative evidence but in spite of it all the jury disagreed and he was set free, to be arrested for horse stealing a few years later and sent to the penitentiary for five years. There is no doubt that the jurymen who were acquitted were afraid that the conviction would bring on an Indian war, or cause the Bloods to kill their stock out of revenge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Steele Collection MS 2008.1.1.3.2.81 Subject The topic of the resource Sam Steele Description An account of the resource Murder of an NWMP office scene, Manuscript C, pages 281-282. Manuscript C is typed and has no handwritten emendations, though there are what look like eraser marks throughout the draft. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1911-1915 manuscript memoir murder NWMP https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/d9ddaf413af2a56826aef13c21b157fb.jpg 51335391ffa793a7cf71a6b99d44792e https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/82042f3d496c0d4bfc504a8029bf86af.jpg 03d1cb6e6f84348989aba9eae313fab8 https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/6f3a2e8e10e7debd9214355adc78c108.jpg 6803814f0aaf6091e2273a32acf65fd9 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Text Any textual data included in the document. Transcription of the second paragraph We like the last batch of MS. which came to us through her, much better than the earlier. It contains personal incidents, and will therefore appeal more strongly to the reading public. The account of the Red River Expedition would be greatly improved if it could be dealt with in the same manner. Its diary form gives it a sameness which is undesirable. We consulted with Mrs. Niblett and finally arranged with her that it would be well to compress it, which we have done, but there is a certain amount of linking up necessary. This we could not easily carry out so when you are doing that, we would suggest that you should introduce a good deal of personal incident and adventure into this part also. We hope this will be possible. If it is not of course the account must appear without it. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Steele Collection MS 2008.1.1.1.2.234.3 Subject The topic of the resource Sam Steele Description An account of the resource Letter from the publisher Seeley Service to Sam Steele Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 16 May 1913 editing memoir Publishing https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/58cd4c8b86d10c00342084dee570fae2.jpg be16653c8956a2ba03438acf65116999 https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/0c6fcfa48e5e4e1b418cb006f3a94ce3.jpg 50f77ca480050331dc61b3ecfb884dc1 https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/0c8259bc2d62035a37278292ba2fe8f4.jpg bc917cab78bd9e65a1bf2820650f7bad https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/f8d815b2c4f7f54e3c5531b619d85699.jpg 31f5bacdf51783ea4bd84f4aefcf2646 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Text Any textual data included in the document. Transcription of the relevant part of Niblett's letter discussing Seeley Service and the South African section of Steele's manuscript. I am most annoyed today with Seeley service. I wrote them to return the MSS of the S.A. war and lo and behold they send me the enclosed. I have made up my mind to quite them. They are far too slow. As soon as I get the MSS from you I will rush them it through. Do not bother about the S.A. matter returned as Lord Strathcona suggested no alteration so please return this with the other. Just as soon as the MSS comes there will be no further delay. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Steele Collection MS 2008.1.1.1.2.239.6 Subject The topic of the resource Sam Steele Description An account of the resource Letter from Mollie Glenn Niblett to Sam Steele Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 15 October 1913 editing memoir Publishing https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/ea6c02356b640e3d624c8f5a45021305.jpg ae16ea795e9ccf7529eba95bf13ebc85 https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/51a6946a0514a5948b6126f25f240586.jpg e4ecea183836f507f43ba68ae63394b9 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Text Any textual data included in the document. Transcription of the second paragraph. Now for the unpleasant part of the business. Messrs. Seeley, Service and Co. have written the enclosed letter. I send a copy, and it is plain that they wish to make trouble and it is important that no step be taken without careful consideration of the position. It seems that they think that they should not be accused of delay, and your letter, a copy of which they sent, seems to have given them a loop-hole, and to me it seems that the only equitable defence I have is that they sent back the whole of the manuscript for me to write over again, and gave me no instructions as to what they really wanted, and when I sent the stuff to them in the first instance I did so at their request, and stated that I was not a writer, and it was necessary for them to “trim it up,” and that what I wrote did not seem to suit them. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Steele Collection MS 2008.1.1.4.32.1 Subject The topic of the resource Sam Steele Description An account of the resource Letter from Sam Steele to Mollie Glenn Niblett Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11 February 1914 editing memoir Publishing https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/b0d0df6e71c5745644db80783164c6a2.jpg 3c689ff27e8466220a2e434b81c1f180 https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/files/original/7c9f5f26a2212fdc7976add8284c3feb.jpg b14999d590bbe4d4dade6acfae3f5fcb Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Text Any textual data included in the document. Transcription of the part of the letter where Steele asks Niblett to be careful as Seeley Service could "hurt the book." Now my dear Mrs. Niblett please see that Seeley, Service & Co., have no complaint and when you advise with anyone about the fact that you have transferred to Mrs. Jenkins, make sure that you have no law suit nor any unpleasantness to smooth over. They can hurt the book, hurt you and hurt me for they have the documents to prove that in the matter of delay I am the only one to blame. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Steele Collection MS 2008.1.1.4.32.2 Subject The topic of the resource Sam Steele Description An account of the resource Letter from Sam Steel to Mollie Glenn Niblett Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 20 February 1914 editing memoir Publishing