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One of Harding's Pleasure & Profit Books.A collection of real life outdoor stories based on the experiences of the author, Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock.Writing from memory, Mr. Woodcock tells of incidents that happened during the fifty years (1855–1905) he spent camping, hunting, trapping and fishing in the wilderness of Northern Pennsylvania and several other states.
Hunting, trapping, fur handling, tanning, taxidermy, bee hunting and wilderness camping Arthur Robert Harding (July 1871 – 1930), better known as A. R. Harding , was an American outdoorsman and the founder of Hunter-Trader-Trapper and Fur-Fish-Game Magazine, and publisher, editor and author of many popular outdoor how-to books of the early 1900s.
Subjects: Hunting Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.
A photo of a trapper on his line from the 1913 American autobiography Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper A photo of a modern trapper's cabin from the Brooks Range in Alaska. In the fur trade, a trapline is a route along which a trapper sets traps for their quarry.
The Universal Dictionary of Violin & Bow Makers is a widely cited reference work providing information on approximately 9,000 violin makers. The work is based on the extensive notes of violinist and composer William Henley (1874-1957) .
Onufry Lewoniuk (c.1904–1933), [89] who was staying with the pair while trapping and hunting at Slim Lake about nine miles (14 km) southwest of Penny, died of exposure to the cold at the lake edge. [90] John (Jack) Evans (1866–1948), [91] a homesteader, [17] had 100-mile (160 km) trapline through Penny in 1912/13. [92]
In Canada, northern Aboriginals had a subsistence culture based on local hunting and trapping economies. The traditional hunting cultures of the Cree, Dene, and Inuit peoples came into direct conflict with the Canadian federal government's wildlife conservation programs. The Aboriginals' life on the land was impossible without access to animals ...
It is considered to be the oldest English-language book on hunting. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Master of Game was first printed in 1904 in modernised English by William and Florence Baillie-Grohman, with an essay on medieval hunting , and a foreword by then-American President and noted hunter Theodore Roosevelt .