Red Cloud, the solitary Sioux: A story of the great prairie

Butler, William Francis (Sir): 1838-1910. Born in Ireland; British soldier; regiment sent to Canada at time of Fenian Raids, 1867; participated in Wolseley's Red River expedition as an advance scout, 1870; sent across the prairies to report on the smallpox epidemic, 1870-1871; made a trip to Lake Athabasca and on to Victoria via the Peace River, 1872-1873; rest of life spent elsewhere in British Empire (Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography ). // Also published, Boston: Robert Bros., 1882 (x, 327p.); new and cheaper edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1891, 1892, & 1896 (vi, 327p.); Boston: C.E. Brown, [1892] (x, 327p.); as Red cloud: A tale of the great prairie , new and cheaper edition, London: Burns & Oates, [1882] (322p.); Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1910 (vi, 327p.); London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne, [1911] (xii, 332p.); with foreword by R. Baden-Powell, memoir of the author, and illustrations by George Lambert, Toronto: Musson Book Co., 1911 & [1927] (xii, 332p.). For another edition see Peel 1033. Translated, including preface by Baden Powell, by M. Serre as Red Cloud, récit de la grande prairie , Paris: Édition Spes, 1930 (228p.). Translated by Niall MacSuibhne as Néall Dearg , Baile Átha Cliath, Ireland: Oifig Díolta Foillseachaín Rialtais, 1935 (405p.).