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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina), 1871-1936. Story of the trapper. New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1902 (OCoLC)663411245 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Agnes C Laut |
OCLC Number: | 2982589 |
Description: | xv, 284 pages frontispiece, plates 20 cm. |
Contents: | Illustrations: With eye and ear alert, the man paddles silently on / Arthur Heming -- Indian voyageurs "packing" of long portage, each packet containing from fifty to one hundred pounds -- Traders running a mackinaw or keel-boat down the rapids of Slave River without unloading -- The buffalo- hunt / [Felix Octavius Carr Darley] -- They dodge the coming sweep of the uplifted arm / Arthur Heming -- Carrying goods over long portage in MacKenzie River region with the old-fashioned Red River ox-carts -- Fort MacPherson, now the most northerly post of the Hudson's Bay Company, beyond the tree line; hence, the houses are built of imported timber, with thatch roofs -- Types of fur presses: Fur press in use at Fort Good Hope, at the extreme north of Hudson's Bay Company's territory; Old wedge press in use at Fort Resolution, of the sub-Arctics. |
Series Title: | Story of the West series. |
Responsibility: | by A.C. Laut, illustrated by Arthur Heming and others. |
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- Trapping.
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