Policing the plains

The work offers a chronological, largely first-hand account of a mounted police force that established law across the western plains and the North. It outlines formation and organization, long-distance marches and mobilizations, approaches to Indigenous peoples and cross-border issues, administration during frontier gold rushes, the impact of railways and winter transport, and service during the First World War. Vignette-style chapters record uniforms, barracks, dog-trains, notable rescues and arrests, and the institutional traditions and ethos that guided discipline and public duty.