When Ralph Connor (Rev. Charles William Gordon) first published Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police A Tale of the MacLeod Trail in 1912, he created the first great fictional Mountie hero. He based Allan Cameron on the real-life Sergeant William Fury, who alone faced down a mob in Kicking Horse Pass. His I'll shoot the first man who takes one more step became a staple in hundreds of later Hollywood Westerns. (Goodreads)