IN JULY 1874, 275 members of a new Amounted police force rode 1,300km (800 miles) across Canada's prairies, from Duf-ferin, Manitoba, in search of "Fort Whoop-Up", a trading post in what is now Alberta. Their mission was to stop Americans from swapping whiskey for buffalo hides with the local Blackfoot Indians. Indigenous Canadians along the route whispered that the horsemen's red serge jackets were dyed with the blood of Queen Victoria's enemies. An artist rode with the Mounties. His sketches were published in the Canadian Illustrated News.
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机译：1874年7月，一支新的骑警部队的275名成员从马尼托巴省达夫-费林横穿加拿大大草原，穿越1300公里（800英里），寻找“ Fort Whoop-Up ”（现在是艾伯塔省的一个贸易站） 。他们的任务是阻止美国人与当地的黑脚印第安人交换威士忌来换取水牛皮。沿途的原住民加拿大人低声说，骑兵的红色军袍被维多利亚女王的敌人的血染成。一位艺术家骑乘骑警。他的素描发表在《加拿大图解新闻》上。
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