Volume 2 of the author"s 3-volume series. The British Columbia Police force, born in 1858, brought the first lawmen to Western Canada. In nearly a century of service, it established a reputation as one of North America"s finest police forces. Deputy Commissioner Cecil Clark, who served on the force for 35 years, used archives and police files to reconstruct some of the cases these policemen worked on. Relive the drama of B. C."s criminal history with the miner who "died" eight times, the killers who hanged each other, and a murder on Okanagan Lake; or, discover how death road a pinto pony and the Kitwancool drums throbbed a war dance. Read about the hangman"s tree at Lilloet, and you might wonder if murderers really were hanged from that knarled limb. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs.