Gordon E. Tolton was born and raised on a family farm in southern Alberta. A historian, re-enactor, author and raconteur, he has worked with the Fort Whoop-Up National Historic Site in Lethbridge, the Riders of the Plains Commemorative Troop in Fort Macleod, the Great Canadian Plains Railway Society in Stirling, Alberta, the Lethbridge Historical Society, the Historical Society of Alberta and the United Farmers of Alberta. His interests focus on the cross-border trade of the late 1800s, the 1885 Northwest Rebellion and the history of agriculture in Alberta. Tolton lives in Coaldale, Alberta. He is the author of Cowboy Calvary, Prairie Warships: River Navigation in the Northwest Rebellion; The Buffalo Legacy and Deep Roots, Promising Future.
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