Fictional References
Hector Adair, a character in the novel Spirit-of-Iron (1923), written by Steele's son, Harwood Steele, is thought to have been modelled on the famous Mountie. The novel includes a foreword in which the author writes: "Hector Adair is intended to represent the ideal Mounted Police officer in particular and the British officer generally. He is not to be identified with any historical figure connected with the Force."
Players meet Sam Steele in the 1994 computer simulation game The Yukon Trail.
In James Michener's Alaska, "Major Sam Steele" is the face of the NWMP. Michener acknowledges him as a historical figure in the notes at the start of the book, but the veracity of his claimed actions is unknown.
Steele is also portrayed, along with Jack London, in Don Rosa's Walt Disney comic book Hearts of the Yukon, episode 8C from The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.
In an episode of Due South ("North"), Fraser references Sam Steele as having been very proud of never firing his weapon while patrolling the Northwest Territories.
In several of the short stories James B. Hendryx wrote about the Yukon Gold Rush, Sam Steele is in the background. Usually Steele is investigating a crime. ("Left Handed Justice", "Short Stories" January 1950 issue)
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“One of the proud joys of the man of letters—if that man of letters is an artist—is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world’s memory.”
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