Cypress Hills Massacre, Sask., 1873

found: Vanderhaeghe, G. The Englishman's boy, 1996:jkt. (the Cypress Hills Massacre, one of the bloodiest and most brutal events of the 19th cent. Canadian West)

found: Story, N. The Oxford companion to Canadian history and literature, 1967(the massacre of Cypress Hills, 1873, in which a party of Americans shot down 80 Assiniboines accused of stealing horses)

found: Bercuson, D. Collins dict. Canadian hist.(Cypress Hills Massacre: massacre of 36 Assiniboine Indians by American and Canadian wolf hunters in the Cypress Hills (now in southern Saskatchewan) in late May 1873. The event helped convince the federal government to form the North-West Mounted Police.)

found: Canadian encyc.:p. 462, under Cypress Hills (in 1873 a gang of American wolf hunters massacred 36 Assiniboine. Outraged by the incident, PM John MacDonald established the North-West Mounted Police, who built Fort Walsh near the site of the massacre) p. 678 (Fort Walsh in Cypress Hills of SW Saskatchewan)