 Taylor spent the majority of his career advocating for America, through negotiation, military force or trade, to take the interior plains north of the 49th, particularly the lands west of the Red River settlement along to Saskatchewan Valley.Having dedicated so much of his life to this cause, he was nicknamed James Wickes "Saskatchewan" Taylor.James Wickes Taylor spent his career trying to help the United States of America gain the North-western plains of Rupert's Land.