item: #1 of 12
          id: 17093
      author: Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton)
       title: Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making
        date: None
       words: 105443
      flesch: 75
     summary: On this account it is not so much used as many other traps which are not only equally effective but much more easily constructed. The bear, lynx, and other large animals are sometimes taken by the gun trap, but it is most generally set for the Puma.
    keywords: = =; animal; bait; bait stick; bark; bear; beneath; bird; board; box; box trap; capture; common; consists; cut; deer; edge; end; ends; fall; feet; fish; food; foot; fox; fur; furs; game; ground; half; hole; illustration; inches; inside; length; log; method; net; notch; oil; order; page; piece; place; pole; purpose; set; setting; sides; size; skin; spring; steel trap; stick; trap; trapper; trapping; use; water; wild; wire; wood; | |
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        item: #2 of 12
          id: 26615
      author: Lewis, George Edward
       title: Black Beaver, the Trapper
        date: None
       words: 20747
      flesch: 82
     summary: In this dash we nearly all lost our lives by starvation: after many days we reached the town of Aubay Arizonia. After many days of severe suffering and fighting cold we came to a perpendicular ridge of ice which we discovered was a long ridge, there seemed to be no way around so we prepared to let over each other.
    keywords: bear; beaver; black; camp; cold; creek; day; days; father; feet; fur; gun; ice; life; man; men; miles; old; river; set; snow; time; trap; trapper; trapping; water; way; winter; years
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        item: #3 of 12
          id: 28574
      author: Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
       title: Connie Morgan in the Fur Country
        date: None
       words: 66187
      flesch: 90
     summary: Joe good man. And they _do_ ha'nt men down.
    keywords: ain; away; bear; big; black; boy; cabin; camp; com; connie; dat; day; de man; den; dog; dogs; eyes; fire; fox; git; git de; goin'; good; head; indian; joe; lak; lak de; lake; leloo; long; look; mak; man; merican; merican joe; pack; right; set; skin; snow; tamahnawus; time; trail; trap; way; white; wolf
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        item: #4 of 12
          id: 32236
      author: Laut, Agnes C.
       title: The Story of the Trapper
        date: None
       words: 83081
      flesch: 78
     summary: Possibly Indians and fur trappers who had been notified to come down to Pierre's Hole by the Rocky Mountain men; possibly, too, paid spies in the employment of the American Fur Company. White men and Indians vied with each other in mutual debasement.
    keywords: american; animal; bay; bay company; bear; beaver; black; blackfeet; buffalo; canoe; company; day; days; death; dog; end; ermine; eyes; feet; fire; fort; fox; french; fur; fur company; furs; game; gray; ground; half; head; hole; hudson; hunter; hunting; indian; indian trapper; koot; left; life; line; little; man; marten; men; mink; missouri; moose; mountain; musk; new; night; north; northern; post; prairie; rabbit; rat; red; river; run; set; skin; snow; stream; time; traders; trail; trapper; traps; water; way; west; westers; white; winter; wolf; wolverine; world; years; young
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        item: #5 of 12
          id: 34063
      author: Woodcock, E. N. (Eldred Nathaniel)
       title: Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping.
        date: None
       words: 116933
      flesch: 83
     summary: But promptly at the time set, in the evening just before sundown, a man with a one horse wagon loaded with bear traps and other traps of smaller size and with one of the worst old rack-of-bones of a horse that I had ever seen, drove up to father's place, stopped and inquired if Mr. Woodcock lived there. Well the story is not long, as we had our camp already built, we concluded not to go out into the woods until it was time to begin hunting and to put out bear traps.
    keywords: animal; bait; bear trap; bill; boys; bruin; camp; coon; cut; day; days; deer; dog; feet; fox; fur; game; good; ground; gun; hill; hunting; left; log; man; miles; mink; morning; night; place; ridge; road; saw; set; skin; smoky; think; time; trail; trap line; trapper; trapping; traps; tree; water; way; woods; work; years
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        item: #6 of 12
          id: 34098
      author: Kreps, Elmer Harry
       title: Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits and Distribution, with Practical Methods for Their Capture
        date: None
       words: 43488
      flesch: 79
     summary: Lynx are easily killed by a blow from a stick but when caught in small traps it is safer to shoot them, using a small caliber pistol or rifle. Although they may be held at times in smaller traps, any trap having less strength than the No. 2 should not be depended on.
    keywords: animal; bait; bear; beaver; feet; foot; fox; fur; illustration; inches; length; method; mink; otter; place; scent; set; snow; spring; trail; trap; trappers; trapping; use; water; way
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        item: #7 of 12
          id: 34228
      author: Schmidt, Arno Erdman
       title: The Accomplished Muskrat Trapper: A Book on Trapping for Amateurs
        date: None
       words: 12706
      flesch: 73
     summary: In assorting muskrats, buyers usually pay more attention to size and primeness of pelt than they do to the fur, because it is generally conceded that the average run of 'rat fur is good. Judging from the ever-increasing popularity of muskrat fur and the consequent rise in value, rat ranching can certainly be considered a profitable undertaking.
    keywords: animals; fur; furs; ice; inches; muskrat; pelt; rats; set; skin; time; trapper; trapping; traps; value; water
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        item: #8 of 12
          id: 34229
      author: Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)
       title: Steel Traps Describes the Various Makes and Tells How to Use Them, Also Chapters on Care of Pelts, Etc.
        date: None
       words: 53650
      flesch: 83
     summary: Other traps may be sprung occasionally and not contain game, but if the trapper has followed instructions as previously given there should be little difficulty in catching each and every animal that comes after the bait. If other traps are making catches near, leave as long as you are trapping there unless you find a much better looking den near and have no trap with you, then take this one.
    keywords: animal; bait; bear trap; catch; den; end; feet; fox; fur; game; good; illustration; inches; jaws; mink; mink trap; newhouse; newhouse trap; otter; place; scent; set; setting; skin; skunk; spring; trap; trap set; trapper; trapping; tree trap; use; water; way
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        item: #9 of 12
          id: 45690
      author: Grinnell, George Bird
       title: Jack the Young Trapper: An Eastern Boy's Fur Hunting in the Rocky Mountains
        date: None
       words: 98077
      flesch: 85
     summary: Jack knew, of course, that he had startled the duck from her nest, and that her pretense of being wounded was only a ruse to draw him away from her precious eggs, and looking down on the spot from which she had sprung he saw something white, and pushing aside the reeds with his hand, saw a mass of pale gray down and feathers, and when he had parted this with his fingers, he saw beneath it half a dozen smooth, cream-colored eggs. Before long Hugh declared that enough sticks had been cut, and then, going to the tops of the trees which had been cut down, he cut a number of stakes about eight feet long, which he sharpened at one end, Mr. Clifford and Jones helping him in this work.
    keywords: animals; antelope; bear; beaver; camp; country; course; day; fire; good; ground; head; hide; horses; hugh; jack; little; man; morning; mountains; pack; place; right; set; skin; son; stick; stream; things; time; trap; water; way; work
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        item: #10 of 12
          id: 47639
      author: Young, Stanley Paul
       title: Hints on Wolf and Coyote Trapping
        date: None
       words: 2766
      flesch: 70
     summary: [Illustration: B19743; B24415 FIGURE 2.--Burying the traps: A, A shoulder of dirt should be built up around and under the pan as a foundation for the trap pad, which is shown in place; B, trap completely bedded, springs and jaws covered, and pan unobstructed, ready for trap pad to be put in place] To trap these animals successfully, one must work to defeat these highly developed senses when placing traps, and success in doing so will come only with a full knowledge of the habits of the two predators and after repeated experiments with trap sets.
    keywords: animals; coyotes; scent; trap; wolf; wolves
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        item: #11 of 12
          id: 48710
      author: Young, Stanley Paul
       title: Hints on Bobcat Trapping
        date: None
       words: 3219
      flesch: 69
     summary: Such traps have been used by many generations of trappers, and although deemed inhumane by some persons, no better or more practical device has yet been invented to take their place. Where to Trap In selecting a site for trap sets, one should be guided to a large extent by the tracks of the animal (fig. 1) and by other traces of its presence, which are commonly found in the rugged recesses of the open range.
    keywords: = =; bobcat; ground; scent; set; trail; trap
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        item: #12 of 12
          id: 48711
      author: Young, Stanley Paul
       title: Hints on Mountain-Lion Trapping
        date: None
       words: 2958
      flesch: 69
     summary: All occurrences of mountain lion were changed to mountain-lion. Although some persons oppose the use of such traps as inhumane, no better or more practical device is yet available.
    keywords: carcass; catnip; lion; mountain; set; trap
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