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In 1906, the former Mountie Samuel Benfield Steele decided to write a memoir that his friend Roger Pocock argued would be superior to any text produced by “the dry-as-dust historian, [who] need[s] to rely upon grubby manuscripts.” According to Pocock, Steele had “unique opportunities of getting accurate information” because he had participated in the Red River Rebellion, the Klondike Gold Rush, and the Second Boer War and thus possessed a wealth of exciting experiences to draw upon. Still, Steele was less concerned with the entertainment value of the proposed book than memorializing his contributions to the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) and the military. He intended with the publication of Forty Years in Canada (1915) to burnish his reputation as an imperial hero of law and order. While Steele regarded his memoir as a way to shape his public image, he would find as a neophyte author that he had little or no control of the complicated and drawn-out publication process, which was dysfunctional in part because Steele was on the opposite side of the Atlantic from his editor and publisher. He was accustomed to soldiers following his command but would find that neither his editor nor his publisher was willing to do his bidding without question or allow him to “write it in my own way.” The dysfunction of this transnational partnership between Winnipeg, where Steele was located, and London would repeatedly threaten to derail the publication of Forty Years in

“Crying Over Spilled Milk”: A Publishing History of Sam Steele’s Forty Years in Canada (pp 239-261)