Im looking for some books to send a young fella who is in a state facility developement center for bad kids... This kid screwed up a few years back and is paying his dues. I have kept in contact with him during his ordeal and one thing he always talks about is trapping, a bunch of us spent a weekend with him in NH about 3 years ago and he has even told stories on public radio of how us trappers really made his day and helped him catch his first beaver.... anyway his birthday was last week and i would like to send him something.... trapping supplies he cant use but i felt that an enjoyable trapping stories book may brighten up his hopes and show that he is not forgotten.

anyway if you have a book along these lines plese contact me with a price
thanks

Rennat

If you contact the "Jack Pine Savage" on the Forum , his wife will hook you up with a collection of his trapline adventures stories.

Book is titled - Life with Arnie and I believe it is around $10. I have borrowed my copy out several times and the reviews have been excellent. I have no doubt the young fella will enjoy it as well !

2poor thank you i might do jsut that also if he has a few

TRY AND GET THE BOOK CALLED THEY CALLED HIM WILDCAT VE LYNCH AWESOME BOOK KEEPS YOU INTERESTED

Jounal of a Trapper

Product Details
Pub. Date: January 2002
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Format: Paperback, 1pp
Sales Rank: 152,628
ISBN-13: 9780803251663
ISBN: 0803251661

Synopsis
Ever wonder how everyone made it west? They used trails beaten out by such men as Osborne Russell. Written in an intensely personal style that lacks punctuation at times, The Journal of a Trapper abounds in details about hunting and trapping in the Rockies. Russell travelled along the Yellowstone, Snake, and Sweetwater rivers (among others), and recent readers have retraced his steps using this book; it is that accurate.

Russell encountered numerous Indian tribes, and takes care to portray them accurately: the Snake or "Sho-sho-nie" Indians are "kind and hospitable to whites thankful for favors indignant at injuries" while "if a Crow husband wishes to speak to his mother-in-law, he speaks to the wife who conveys it to the mother...a custom peculiar to the Crows."

Of course, not all his encounters are friendly; while camping along the Yellowstone River, local Blackfoot Indians shot Russell and his companion through the legs with arrows. Russell's journal reflects the complex character of many of the independent men of that era; adventurous, tough, and resourceful. He was a politician in Oregon when he decided to write about his earlier life as a trapper in the Rocky Mountains, and he has retained the authentic "voice of the west". Read it for its exact yet colorful descriptions, and for a rollicking good time.

the wolfing is a good book.

thanks every one !

These are some great books recounting true lives of folks trapping in Canada in the 30's.

Trap-Lines North - by Stephen Meader
(inexpensive reprint at www.southerskies.com)

North to Cree Lake & Face the North Wind - by A. L Karras

Back in the 1950's I read my first trapping adventure book titled "Trap Lines North"
Based on the diary of the Vanderbilt family in Canada.
It hooked me on a lifetime interest in trapping!
Do a search on "Alibris books" on the web, they are a good source for old used and out of print books.