Word: birchbark
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...catch her eye, Haynes wrote a second plea on birchbark, imploring her to reconsider. This time Mamie did agree to accept the makings of a coat, paid out $385 to have the 17 prime pelts, donated by two trappers' associations, fashioned into a finished garment (worth, said Haynes, some $1,800). Last week Mamie obliged by smilingly modeling the three-quarter-length, sleek, dark coat for White House photographers while Trapper Haynes and Archie Clark chattered happily to reporters...
...business slacks, villainous Black Bart conveniently shoots it out with Sheriff Lucky in a haze of gun smoke, later distributes used cartridge cases to the newly corralled crowd. On Disney's miniature Mississippi, a five-eighths scale stern wheeler carries 9,000 landlubbers daily over waters alive with birchbark canoes paddled by Disney-employed Sioux, Shawnee and Winnebago Indians. And in Adventureland nearly 3,000,000 people (adults 50?, children 35?) paid more than $1,000,000 last year to sail down a jungle river-most popular of Disneyland's 42 paid attractions-where trap-jawed crocodiles...
...game pictures are marvelous, but some of the statements in the article are not realistic. It should be against the game law for anyone to talk about shooting moose with as light a rifle as a 30-30, and you don't need a birchbark horn to call moose. A cheerleader's megaphone or a rolled up copy of TIME will do just as well...
Bearskin Bonus. Other U.S. big-game animals give a sterner test to the hunter's skill and endurance. Hunting moose requires long treks into the wilderness of northern Maine, Minnesota, Montana and Wyoming, and hours of expert calling (with a birchbark horn) to lure the big animals into rifle range. The elk, prized for antlers that often rise 5 ft. over its head, have retreated from the plains into the rugged western mountain ranges. Last year 52,000 elk were bagged by hunters who made the extra effort to go after them...
...these, Jasper Danckeart by name, set out from Staten Island on a bright morning in 1679. He traveled by birchbark canoc to the hamlet of Elizabethtown, where he disembarked and set out across country towards the warmer climes of the southwest. But let him tell his tale...