Author: George Bird Grinnell

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-15

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780332858982

Excerpt from Jack the Young Trapper: An Eastern Boy's Fur Hunting in the Rocky Mountains 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 trap per 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.