The Royal Canadian Mounted Police

by Richard L. Neuberger, Lee J. Ames (Illustrator)

hardbound

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Canada

182 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1953

About the author

Richard Lewis Neuberger was an American journalist, author, and politician who wrote for The New York Times and served in both the Oregon House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

Reviews

[Becca Harris]

This was enjoyable at times as a read aloud but parts were very dated and a bit dry.

[Bobbi]

Some fun stories, but sadly, not real well written.

[Caleb Meyers]

This is a great book on the heroic men who helped make Canada the prosperous and law-abiding nation it is today. This book taught me that you don't need a large quantity of officers to make a country lawful, but a good quality. At the publication of this book, when there were over 13,000,000 people living in Canada, there were less than 5,000 mounted police. This book was overall fascinating, and I loved his coverage of the man who traveled well over two years towards the North Pole to find the murderers of the missionary. If you have a well-enforced law, missionaries prosper and the Gospel can spread. Police are honorable men.

I docked it a star because his last two chapters were rather dull, and didn't need to be included.

[Joshua Horn]

I read this book to my kids. Although the oldest is only three, they still enjoyed it. It is a series of adventure stories from the Canadian Mounted Police. There's some information in this book that we skipped as it was way out of date, but overall we liked it.

[Denise]

Middle school
Dated (info, characterizations, language)

[Ted]

Very dated with some excellent stories, The Lost Patrol in particular.Landmark history book read #138.

[C]

While there is certain aging that comes with any attempt at contemporary nonfiction, the accounts are still valuable at showing the need, hardships, successes and failures of the RCMP.