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more... Outrider of Empire The Life and Adventures of Roger Pocock A dreamer of dreams, an adventurer, and a man of many ideas, Roger Pocock was an inveterate, world-ranging traveller. But Canada was always the land he loved best after his native Britain. Although his service in the NWMP proved brief and undistinguished, the experience launched his career as a writer, and provided a major source of inspiration, both for his stories and in the creation of his greatest and longest-lived achievement, the Legion of Frontiersmen. Frontiersmen were men of action, rather than words, and few of them wrote of their experiences, so we are left with few formal written accounts. Roger did write about his own life, but his two autobiographies fail to tell the whole truth. This is scarcely surprising, for he made many mistakes in his life and many were serious ones, though any degree of culpability in the death of Sir Arthur Curtis fell well short of murder. Both Roger and the society that shaped him are long gone. But his life of adventure, with its many failures and a few outstanding successes, is well worth recording for what it reveals about both the man and his social milieu. For, truly, Roger Pocock lived the life that many an adventurous boy of the time might have desired. Contributor s Geoffrey A. Pocock,  Author Though Geoffrey Pocock shares the same surname as the Founder of the Legion of Frontiersmen, he claims no near relationship. Nevertheless, he has spent a quarter of a century researching the Legion's history and the lives of many of its members. Geoffrey Pocock lives in a village on the Sussex Downs in England. www.lavantworkwear.co.uk Outrider of Empire 2008 Merrill Distad,  Foreword Dr. Merrill Distad, Associate University Librarian (Research and Special Collections Services) and University Archivist, University of Alberta, is the co-editor of Peel’s Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953 (Toronto, 2003) and the author, most recently, of The University of Alberta Library: The First Hundred Years, 1908-2008 (Edmonton, 2009). He has been employed at the University of Alberta since 1987. More titles by this Contributor Pierre Ouvrard 2000 Out-of-Print Pierre Ouvrard 2000 Teaching the World 1996 Out-of-Print University of Alberta Library (The) 2009 Last Best West (The) 2011 Recalling the Buffalo 2012 Outrider of Empire 2008