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The Lost Patrol: The Mounties' Yukon Tragedy
The Lost Patrol The Mounties' Yukon Tragedy Author:Dick North On December 21, 1910, a routine four-man Royal North West Mounted Police patrol led by Inspector Francis J. Fitzgerald, set off from Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, by dogsled. Its destination: Dawson City, Yukon Territory, 475 miles away. Something, however, went terribly wrong. — Using techniques similar to those of a skilled detective, ... more »author Dick North pieces the evidence together in an attempt to solve the mystery of the doomed journey that has gone down in Mountie annals as the THE LOST PATROL. Like the puzzling fate of Sir John Franklin's disastrous Northwest Passage expedition, the grisly outcome of the Lost Patrol has become part of Canadian folklore. Now, in this new, revised edition of a Canadian classic, Dick North weaves a spellbinding true tale worthy of Jack London himself.« less