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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.
Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys Year: 1903 Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog) 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
A mountain man is an explorer who lives in the wilderness and makes his living from hunting and trapping.Mountain men were most common in the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 through to the 1880s (with a peak population in the early 1840s).
Sam forages for edible plants and traps animals for food. He uses fire to make the interior of a hollow tree bigger. Seeing a peregrine falcon hunting for prey, Sam decides he wants a falcon as a hunting bird. Sam goes to town and reads up on falconry at the local public library. He steals a chick from a falcon's nest and names the bird Frightful.
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]
The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History is a book written by Harold Innis covering the fur trade era in Canada from the early 16th century to the 1920s. First published in 1930, it comprehensively documents the history of fur trading while extending Innis's analysis of the economic and social implications of Canada ...
The Trap is a 1966 British-Canadian adventure western film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham.Shot in the wilderness of the Canadian province of British Columbia, the film is an unusual love story about a rough trapper and a mute orphan girl.