Rider of the Plains

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a member of the North West Mounted Police.

Quotations

1878

Ring out . . . ring out the marching call for the Riders of the Plains.

1910

Several weeks later, when the snows had melted, a search party found the body of the Rider of the Plains.

1955

Around the world, the famed "Riders of the Plains" have been popularized, eulogized, even glamorized, in prose and poem.