The thrilling story of the world-famous Royal Canadian Mounted Police – the Mounties. Created over a century ago to tame the Canadian West, the entire history is told from their trying to march westward as the Northwest Mounted Police in 1874 to the 1960s feats of busting spy rings and narcotics gangs. Well researched and very readable with archival photographs, excellent condition hardcover with dustcover (Some light wear), published by Hodder and Stoughton in Great Britain, first edition 1968, 158 pages.