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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina), 1871-1936. Story of the trapper. New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1902 (OCoLC)663411245 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Agnes C Laut; Arthur Heming; D. Appleton and Company, |
OCLC Number: | 2982589 |
Notes: | "Author of "Heralds of empire," and "Lords of the north"." Includes editor's preface on pages vii-xi. Includes appendix on pages 281-284. |
Description: | [4], xv, 284, [4] pages, [8] leave of plates : illustrations, photographs ; 20 cm |
Contents: | I. Gamesters of the wilderness -- II. Three companies in conflict -- III. The nor' westers' coup -- IV. The ancient Hudson's Bay Company wakens up -- V. Mr. Astor's company encounters new opponents -- VI. The french trapper -- VII. The buffalo-runners -- VIII. The mountaineers -- IX. The taking of the beaver -- X. The making of the moccasins -- XI. The indian trapper -- XII. Ba'tiste, the bear hunter -- XIII. John Coulter -- free trapper -- XIV. The greatest fur company in the world -- XV. Koot and the bob-cat -- XVI. Other little animals besides Wahboos the rabbit -- XVII. The rare furs -- how the trapper takes them -- XVIII. Under the north star -- Where fox and ermine run -- XIX. What the trapper stands for. Illustrations: With eye and ear alert, the man paddles silently on / Arthur Heming -- Indian voyageurs "packing" of long portage, each packet containing from fifty to one hundred pounds -- Traders running a mackinaw or keel-boat down the rapids of Slave River without unloading -- The buffalo- hunt / [Felix Octavius Carr Darley] -- They dodge the coming sweep of the uplifted arm / Arthur Heming -- Carrying goods over long portage in MacKenzie River region with the old-fashioned Red River ox-carts -- Fort MacPherson, now the most northerly post of the Hudson's Bay Company, beyond the tree line; hence, the houses are built of imported timber, with thatch roofs -- Types of fur presses: Fur press in use at Fort Good Hope, at the extreme north of Hudson's Bay Company's territory; Old wedge press in use at Fort Resolution, of the sub-Arctics. |
Series Title: | Story of the West series. |
Responsibility: | by A.C. Laut ... ; illustrated by Arthur Heming and others. |
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