The Story of Louis Riel: the Rebel Chief

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Story of Louis Riel: The Rebel Chief by Joseph Edmond CollinsThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The Story of Louis Riel: The Rebel ChiefAuthor: Joseph Edmond CollinsRelease Date: December 7, 2003 [EBook #10399]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF LOUIS RIEL ***This etext was produced by Gardner Buchanan.The Story of Louis RielThe Rebel Chiefby Joseph Edmond CollinsToronto, 1885CHAPTER I.Along the banks of the Red River, over those fruitful plains brightened with wild flowers in summer, and swept with fiercestorms in the winter-time, is written the life story of Louis Riel. Chance was not blind when she gave as a field to thisman's ambition the plains whereon vengeful Chippewas and ferocious Sioux had waged their battles for so manycenturies; a country dyed so often with blood that at last Red River came to be its name. But while our task is to presentthe career of this apostle of insurrection and unrest; stirred as we may be to feelings of horror for the misery, the tumult,the terror and the blood of which he has been the author, we must not neglect to do him, even him, the justice which is hisright.He is not, as so many suppose, a half-breed, moved by the vengeful, ...