Macmillan, Toronto, 1958.  Hard cover, 159 pages.  Very good plus; red boards with green lettering in frame on front board, green lettering and rules on spine; lower corners and spine ends lightly bumped; binding tight.  Dust jacket with price intact has a bit of edge and cover wear with tiny tears at lower corner folds.  Map end papers; interior clean and unmarked; illustrated by Jack Ferguson.  ‘The first shot was fired at a place called Duck Lake.  The date:  March 26^th, 1885.  And with that, the whole of Canada’s North West flared into open rebellion.  The Metis, a people of mixed white and Indian blood, had taken up arms to defend their land, believing it to be threatened by incoming settlers from the eastern provinces.’ (from front flap)