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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. Trappers traditionally move habitually along the route to set and check the traps ...
Albert Johnson (c. 1890–1900 – February 17, 1932), also known as the Mad Trapper of Rat River, was a fugitive whose actions stemming from a trapping dispute eventually sparked a huge manhunt in the Northwest Territories and Yukon in Northern Canada.
A fur trapper was a mountain man who, in today's terms, would be called a free agent. He was independent and traded his pelts to whoever would pay him the best price. That contrasts with a "company man", typically indebted to one fur company for the cost of his gear, who traded only with that company and was often under the direct command of ...
The main cabin is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story log cabin, measuring about 29.5 feet (9.0 m) by 21.5 feet (6.6 m). There are two rooms downstairs with a loft above. A contemporaneous one-story log tack shed is nearby. [2] The site includes the cabin and mining apparatus used by Craig. A sluice box and water diversion ditches were used in placer mining.
The Rock Cabin is in North Cascades National Park, in the U.S. state of Washington. [2] Constructed by trapper John Dayo in the 1920s, the cabin was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [3] Rock Cabin is a three-sided wood cabin which was built against a cliff, with one side of the cabin being the cliff face.
Then he switched to trapping for furs; in 1938 he built this cabin and developed a trapline. As the trapline would be operated in the winter, by dogsled visits, he fished in the summer for food for his dogs using a fishwheel. The cabin is a one-roomed saddle-notched log cabin which is representative of what trappers used. [2]
The Shorty Lovelace Historic District includes a series of cabins built in Kings Canyon National Park by trapper Joseph Walter "Shorty" Lovelace between 1910 and 1940. . Lovelace was the first non-Native American to live year-round in the upper Kings River Can
Joseph Lafayette Meek (February 9, 1810 – June 20, 1875) was an American pioneer, mountain man, law enforcement official, and politician in the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory of the United States.