Twenty years on the trap line : being a collection of revised camp notes written at intervals during a twenty years experience in trapping, wolfing and hunting, on the great Northwestern plains . rEK tlu puhlicatloj < f my recent work,-Frontier Indian a youngbut observing class of readers and inquirers,felt a little disappointed, that I did not go moreinto details about the habits of fur bearinganimals, and the methods employed in en-trapping them. Thswitha knowbi^e thatfor a long number of years I had folio .vei thevocations of trapper and wolfer in a profes-sional way, and mus
Twenty years on the trap line : being a collection of revised camp notes written at intervals during a twenty years experience in trapping, wolfing and hunting, on the great Northwestern plains . rEK tlu puhlicatloj < f my recent work,-Frontier Indian a youngbut observing class of readers and inquirers,felt a little disappointed, that I did not go moreinto details about the habits of fur bearinganimals, and the methods employed in en-trapping them. Thswitha knowbi^e thatfor a long number of years I had folio .vei thevocations of trapper and wolfer in a profes-sional way, and must necessarily be familiarwith the subjects to be treated. In sending forth this little book after itscompanion one, I have, therefore, endeavoredto supply the omission, by giving some ac-count of a hunters, trappers and wolferslife, as I observed and experienced it; writtensomewhat in a crude foim of a rambling nar-rative covering a record of the doings ofmctny of those years; iut ^rsp.^rsad with somenotmgs of fur beirnr animilsof the country, and the methods used in en-snaring and te^roying them; aho. smie fur-ther acounis of the doings an I undoings ofmv Indian CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. JSpirit Lake and tlie Little Sioux River—Inkpaduta the Outlaw Chief. 11 CHAPTER IL Santee Sioux Outbreak of 1862—Valley of theLittle Sioux in 1803—An Official WildTurkey Hunt. 19 CHAPTER IIL An Autumn Trap on Mill Creek 18(35—Trap-pers Outfit—The Start—Meet a Winneba- f goe Chief—A Scare—Mink Leading Furof the Season. 20 CHAPTER IV. More About the Autumn Trap on Mill Creek—Mink Trapping—Minister of the Gospelin Bad Business—A Fur Dealers RoundUp. 34 CONTENTS. CHAPTER V. The Final Trap on Mill Creek—A Spring SetOut*—Ti-apper Hawthorne—Calling theBeaver—Lost on the Prairie—InkpadutasSons. 41 CHAPTER VI. Ahout Beavers. 51 CHAPTER VII. Along the Elkhoin River—Beaver Up toTrai)—Camping Among the Wild Plums An Elk Hmit—A Clean Burn out. 59
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