Westward BoundIn the late nineteenth century, European expansionism found one of its last homes in North America. While the American West was renowned for its lawlessness, the Canadian Prairies enjoyed a tamer reputation symbolized by the Mounties legendary triumph over chaos. Westward Bound debunks the myth of Canadas peaceful West and the masculine conceptions of law and violence upon which it rests by shifting the focus from Mounties and whisky traders to