"In a romanticized picture, the Mounties got their man in the badlands."

"While the picture paints a rather romantic image of the Mounties, it does represent how law and order came to the prairies before the settlers. Following the Cypress Hills Massacre in 1873, the Canadian government acted quickly to establish a police force and bring an end to any lawless behaviour that may restrict the flow of settlers. Beginning in 1874 they marched West and soon established themselves in posts across the prairies."