Jerry Potts
Northwest Mounted Police Scout

 

Jerry Potts was barely over 5 feet tall and was part Indian and White. He was a Mountain Man, Cowboy, and Horse Trader. Potts career as a scout with the Northwest Mounted Police started when the Mounties showed up in Fort Benton, Montana, in the summer of 1874. Colonel Macleod was the officer in charge, and the Mounties needed a scout that could guide them into Southern Alberta and to Fort Whoop-Up.

The Mounties were formed to police the Canadian West, shut down Fort Whoop-Up, and put an end to the Whiskey Trade . Only problem was they got lost coming out west from Ontario, and until they stumbled into Fort Benton and engaged Jerry Potts' services, there wasn't a man amongst them that knew where they were going.

 

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