79 - 'Bloody Jack' Krafchenko: Manitoba's Billy the Kid

A Cultural History of Canada

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! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: [e-mail]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). ---

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.