Description
Mike Mountain Horse was born on the Kainai reserve in southern Alberta, Canada, in 1888. He had worked as a scout for the North West Mounted Police before enlisting in 1916. His brother, Albert, had died the year before from injuries received in action (he had been gassed three times and was in the process of heading home before he contracted tuberculosis with his badly damaged lungs). Mountain Horse was also injured in action in France several times and recovered in hospitals in Liverpool, Epsom, and Reading, England. He is perhaps most well-known for his buffalo robe drawings of his experience fighting in France.
Bibliographic sources
https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/bts/2018/10/29/first-world-war-native-stories/. Image of Mike Mountain Horse in 1959, credit: Glenbow Archives.