: The Story of the Trapper by Laut Agnes C Heming Arthur Illustrator - Northwest Canadian History; Trapping; Fur trade North America; Northwestern States History

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FACING PAGE

TRADERS RUNNING A MACKINAW OR KEEL-BOAT DOWN THE RAPIDS 57

THE BUFFALO-HUNT 78

THEY DODGE THE COMING SWEEP OF THE UPLIFTED ARM 143

FORT MACPHERSON, THE MOST NORTHERLY POST OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY 228

TYPES OF FUR PRESSES 250

THE STORY OF THE TRAPPER

PART I

GAMESTERS OF THE WILDERNESS

Fearing nothing, stopping at nothing, knowing no law, ruling his stronghold of the wilds like a despot, checkmating rivals with a deviltry that beggars parallel, wassailing with a shamelessness that might have put Rome's worst deeds to the blush, fighting--fighting--fighting, always fighting with a courage that knew no truce but victory, the American trapper must ever stand as a type of the worst and the best in the militant heroes of mankind.

Each with an army at his back, Wolfe and Napoleon won victories that upset the geography of earth. The fur traders never at any time exceeded a few thousands in number, faced enemies unbacked by armies and sallied out singly or in pairs; yet they won a continent that has bred a new race.

The American fur trader knew only one rule of existence--to go ahead without any heroics, whether the going cost his own or some other man's life. That is the way the wilderness was won; and the winning is one of the most thrilling pages in history.

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