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...Chicago, Chris Longhini, Gogebic (Mich.) trapper and woodsman, remembered news-pictures he had seen of gangsters and photographers with tripod cameras. Seeing a surveyor pointing a theodolite his way Woodsman Longhini decided it was a cameraman mistaking him for a gangster. He charged, smashed the theodolite, punched the surveyor. In court he paid $400 for the ruined instrument...
...Michigan trapper named St. Martin was shot in the stomach in 1822. The accident proved good fortune to Medicine. For Dr. William Beaumont, young Army surgeon, succeeded in healing the wound, except for a clean hole three inches in diameter. Through that hole Dr. Beaumont was able to study the processes of human digestion for the many years which St. Martin continued to live...
First published eight years ago by Scribner, under the title Lige Mounts: Free Trapper, this commendable novel tells of the making of a frontiersman, rather than the life of one. Its distinction does not lie in the story, which is adequate but not unusual: Lige, aged 19 in 1822, is caught up in the frontier enthusiasm, joins three companions in St. Louis, goes up the Missouri to the Yellowstone and on up to the Marias for a winter's trapping. One of the men is killed in a brush with the Gros Ventre Indians, the other...
...Author. Frank Bird Linderman, 61, went to Montana in 1885 as trapper, hunter and cowboy. For over 40 years he has lived in a cabin on Flathead Lake, knows the Indians as well as a white man can. He has been made a member of the Chippewas, of the Crees...
Murfree Rinnard was a trapper who hated houses, loved the woods; he knew the forests of Tennessee, "Kaintuck," North Carolina like the back of his hand. When he had a load of furs he came to town to get drunk, get a woman, then get away. In Hill Town, N. C. he saw a girl he wanted. She fell in love with him, he slipped off before it was too late. But he was never able to forget her. Years later he saw her in the West: when the Chickasaws rose against the white settlers, Murfree got through...