From: nospam@abc.net   
      
   Yes, there are lots of photos of old NWMP from the 1870s and 1880s where they   
   look like   
   some museum piece with a full dress uniform that they NEVER wore from day to   
   day!   
      
   So all the dumb bell artists paint them up with red coats and pill box hats   
   out patroling   
   the prairies, good grief! Contemporary accounts describe them as actually   
   looking more   
   like bushwhackers when out on patrol. Lots indeed did look like your average   
   character out   
   of a duster, not some souvenir post card.   
   --   
   Todd   
      
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