McKay Jenkins
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In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to do what no white men had ever attempted: reach a group of utterly isolated Eskimos and convert them. Farther and farther north the priests trudged, through a frigid and bleak country known as the Barren Lands, until they reached the place where the Coppermine River dumps into the Arctic Ocean.
Their fate, and the fate of the people they hoped...
2) Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: madness, murder, and the collision of cultures in the Arctic, 1913
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Journeys to the Canadian Arctic to describe the murders of two Catholic priests during their 1913 mission to the Eskimos of the region, their cannibalization by Inuit hunters, the long and difficult quest to find the killers, and the two trials that followed.
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Using combat footage, stills, re-enactments, and interviews, discusses the history and training of the legendary 10th Mountain Division, their uphill battles in Italy that turned the tide for the Allies, revolutionized winter mountain warfare and transformed winter sports at home, and looks at the current 10th in Afghanistan and elsewhere as it continues the legacy.