Amelia McLean Paget was born in 1867 at Fort Simpson, in what is now the Northwest Territories of Canada. Her father, William McLean, was a Scot involved in the fur trade and her mother, Helen Murray, belonged to an illustrious Métis family which had been involved in the fur trade for generations. Amelia’s life spanned some of the most tumultuous events in the West, including the disappearance of the buffalo, the North-West Resistance, and the establishment of the reserve system. She had a more sympathetic appreciation of Aboriginal culture than is to be found in many of her contemporaries. In "People of the Plains" she records her observations of the customs, beliefs and lifestyles of the Plains Cree and Saulteaux amongst whom she lived. She died in Winnipeg in 1922. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.