by way of Hugh A. Dempsey. Calgary: Fifth House Limited, 248 pp illus., paper, $2495 This work examines the tragic period from 1869 to 1874 when American traders great flowed the southern Alberta plains with whiskey, causing massive chaos and destruction among the Blackfoot tribes. Dempsey discloses how the trade first disentangleed under freebooters John Healy and All Hamilton, and to what extent their Fort Whoop-Up became the middle of illicit trade. During the nearest few years, forts sprang up at of that kind places as Calgary, High
