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Title: The trapper's guide; a manual of instructions for capturing all kinds of fur-bearing animals, and curing their skins; with observations on the fur-trade, hints on life in the woods, and narratives of trapping and hunting excursions
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Newhouse, S. (Sewell) Noyes, John Humphrey, 1811-1886
Subjects: Trapping Hunting
Publisher: Community, N.Y., Oneida community, limited
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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in five hundred miles further. We arenow among the buffaloes; and yet another five hundred in anorthwesterly direction places us somewhere in the region ofthe head waters of three, or perhaps four, great river systems,those of the Missouri, the Columbia, the Saskatchewan, andMackenzies River ; having their several outlets in the Gulf ofMexico, the Pacific Ocean, the North Atlantic, and the PolarSea : a wild and solitary place. On one side, snow-cappedmountains rise in desolate grandeur to a height of 15,000 feet.Dark forests belt the landscape, Avhere streams, issuing from•deep gorges in the hills, break to the level of the plains below.Follow this rocky canon to where its stream and bed wideninto a marsh. We are now among the haunts of the beaver,otter, and mink. We deem ourselves the only human visitantsof this remote place. But look ! a moccasin track in the sandtells us that some one has been here before us. Its course istoward the margin of yonder sluggish pool ; and, as we yet
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III 1 11 III I I »•■■.:«««■■ HISTORY OF THE NEWHOUSE TRAP. 207 trace the steps with our eye, click I a clash of steel, and theheavy plunge of an animal in the water, struogling betweeniron jaws at the end of an iron chain, tell at once the story ofthe Rocky Mountain trapper and his game. If not tired with this jaunt, allows a year to pass, and then,•)n the same handy roadster as before, fly with me a similarlourney in the opposite direction. We alight at one of thegreat European capitals ; let it be London. It is night ; theglitter of gas and glass around us, the whirl of fashion and theroar of trade, with the miles of crowded ;wvement thatstretch away on every side, almost obliterate the conceptionof sucli a thing as rural nature, to say notliing of priniitiveforest solitude. Here in the aristocratic West End, a mansiondoor opens ; a lady, robed and ))rotected a la mode (for thenight is cool), and attended by powdered footmen, advances,enters a coroneted carriage, and

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