In which we talk about the idea of the Canadian "Wild West", a contender for the Billy the Kid title of Manitoba, and Dennis Cooley's Bloody Jack - all in one episode!
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Sources/Further Reading:
- Cooley, Dennis. Bloody Jack, University of Alberta Press, 2002 [1984].
- Gray, James. H. "On the Trail of Jack Krafchenko," A Boy From Winnipeg, Macmillan, 1970, pp 75-86.
- Stubbs, Andrew. "Accessing the Criminal Paradise in Dennis Cooley's Bloody Jack and Other Outlaw Fictions," Bolder Flights: Essays on the Canadian Long Poem, ed. by Angela Robbeson and Frank Tierney, University of Ottawa Press, 1999, pp. 173-187.
- Zeilig, Martin. "The Story of "Bloody Jack" Krafchenko," Manitoba History 35, Spring 1998, pp. 15-20.
