Canada -- Canadian Northwest, William Bleasdell Cameron -- 1862-1951, Canadian Northwest -- History, Canadian Northwest-- History -- 1870-1905, Indigenous peoples -- Canadian Northwest -- History 

"William Bleasdell Cameron came west in 1881 searching for adventure. He found it in full measure in several roles, but most of all as a writer. He developed his own graphic writing style for his frontier themes and soon his articles were appearing throughout Canada and the United States. For a time he was editor of the prestigious Field and Stream magazine in New York City, but decided to return to the West where he eked out a precarious living as a front-line journalist, writing about a new and exciting places best known in reality and myth as the frontier. The captivating firsthand accounts in Eyewitness to History record people, places, and exciting events that otherwise would be lost forever.

Cameron's trunkful of scrapbooks remained untouched for decades until examined by R.H. Macdonald. Eyewitness to History represents a cross section of the most exciting and most graphic stories written by this prolific author, known best today for Blood Red the Sun, his personal account of the Frog Lake Massacre during the Riel Rebellion."--Back cover.