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Jack the Young Trapper: An Eastern Boy's Fur Hunting in the Rocky Mountains

Jack the Young Trapper: An Eastern Boy's Fur Hunting in the Rocky Mountains

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JACK, THE YOUNG TRAPPER

By the same Author


Jack the Young Cowboy
Jack the Young Trapper
Jack the Young Canoeman
Jack the Young Explorer
Jack in the Rockies
Jack Among the Indians
Jack the Young Ranchman
Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales
Blackfoot Lodge Tales
The Story of the Indian
The Indians of To-day
The Punishment of the Stingy
American Duck Shooting
American Game Bird Shooting
Trails of the Pathfinders

JACK
THE YOUNG TRAPPER

An Eastern Boy's Fur Hunting
in the Rocky Mountains

BY
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL

Author of "Jack the Young Ranchman," "Jack Among the Indians," "Jack in the Rockies," "Jack the Young Canoeman," "Pawnee Hero Stories," "Blackfoot Lodge Tales," "The Story of the Indian," "The Indian of To-day," etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER KING STONE

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1907, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company


Twelfth Printing, January 22, 1936

Printed in the United States of America


FOREWORD

A century ago the western half of the American Continent was unknown. Vast herds of buffalo and antelope swarmed over its rolling plains; elk and deer fed along its rivers; wild sheep and white goats clambered over its rocky heights; bears prowled through its forests; beavers built their dams and houses along every stream. Occasionally a group of Indians passed over the plains or threaded the defiles of the mountain ranges.

A few years later the white man began to penetrate this wilderness. Beaver were growing scarcer, and men were forced to go further for them. So the trapper entered these unknown fastnesses and began his work. He followed up stream after stream, sought out remote valleys, crossed deserts. With rifle in one hand and trap in the other, he endured every hardship and exposed himself to every danger. He swam rivers, climbed mountains, fought Indians, and risked life in his struggle for fur.

They were men of firm courage and stern resolution, those trappers of the early days. About their life and their work there is a romance and a charm that appeal powerfully to the imagination. Jack Danvers was fortunate in that the man who taught him some of the secrets of that now forgotten life was one who had borne a part in the work of subduing the wild west, and in laying the foundations upon which its present civilization is built.


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CONTENTS

CHAPTER   PAGE
I. A Council of War 1
II. A Pleasant Spring Ride 9
III. An Expedition for Fur 18
IV. Making Ready for the Trip 27
V. The Start for North Park 37
VI. To Laramie and North Park 48
VII. A Talk about Beaver 60
VIII. The Water Fowls' Summer Home 73
IX. A Troublesome Grizzly 83
X. A Big Beaver Meadow 95
XI. Indian Beaver Lore 113
XII. Prospecting for Fur 126
XIII. A Lion's Leap 140
XIV. Setting for Beaver 155
XV. They Skin Beaver

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