Continued from My Canadian Rockies Trip, Part 1
After the eventful visit to the Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump described in the last post, we arrived at the Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village at Pincher Creek, a small town in southwestern Alberta.
A Little History
John George “Kootenai” Brown was born in Ireland in 1839. He served in the British army in India during The Revolt of 1857 (aka the Sepoy Mutiny). Eventually he made his way to Western Canada and traded with the Kootenai First Nation earning his nickname “Kootenai”. He was a multi-faceted individual; trader, hunter, tourist guide and later, park warden. The Pioneer Village bearing his name was established in 1966 to preserve the frontier heritage of that era. The well preserved cabins with period memorabilia evoke that historic time.
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