The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The Hudson's Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin Jr.

Commendation Quotes: "A rollicking read and a fresh contribution to the literature of the fur trade -- scholarship and skulduggery in the same fine package." -- James Raffan, author of "Circling the Midnight Sun" and "Emperor of the North"Commendation Quotes: "History buffs and armchair detectives are sure to enjoy this absorbing time-machine tale of murder, mayhem, intrigue, and justice denied." -- David A. Gibb, author of "Camoflaged Killer: The Shocking Double Life of Colonel Russell Williams"Commendation Quotes: "A fascinating biohistorical investigation by forensic anthropologist Debra Komar into one of Canada's coldest cases, the mysterious killing of a Hudson's Bay Company chief trader in 1842." -- Peter Vronsky, author of "Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada"Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Issued also in electronic format. Publisher Marketing: Is it possible to reach back in time and solve an unsolved murder, more than 170 years after it was committed? Just after midnight on April 21, 1842, John McLoughlin, Jr. ? the chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Stikine, in the northwest corner of the territory that would later become British Columbia ? was shot to death by his own men. They claimed it was an act of self-defence, their only means of stopping the violent rampage of their drunk and abusive leader. Sir George Simpson, the HBC's Overseas Governor, took the men of Stikine at their word, and the Company closed the book on the matter. The case never saw the inside of a courtroom, and no one was ever charged or punished for the crime. To this day, the killing remains the Honourable Company's dirtiest unaired laundry and one of the darkest pages in the annals of our nation's history. Now, exhaustive archival research and modern forensic science ? including ballistics, virtual autopsy, and crime scene reconstruction ? unlock the mystery of what really happened the night McLoughlin died. Using her formidable talents as a writer, researcher, and forensic scientist, Debra Komar weaves a tale that could almsot be fiction, with larger-than-life characters and dramatic tension. In telling the story of John McLoughlin, Jr., Komar also tells the story of Canada's north and its connection to the Hudson's Bay Company. Contributor Bio:  Komar, Debra Debra Komar has worked as a forensic anthropologist in the US, UK, and Canada for over twenty years. She has investigated human-rights violations resulting in violent deaths for the United Nations and Physicians for Human Rights, testified as an expert witness in The Hague and across North America, and authored the authoritative "Forensic Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Practice" for Oxford University Press. "The Lynching of Peter Wheeler" is her second book on historic crimes. Her first, "The Ballad of Jacob Peck", was published in 2013 and was met with considerable critical acclaim.