The Complete American Trapper

In 1823, Hugh Glass did the unthinkable: he wrestled a grizzly bear...and won. But that is only the beginning of the remarkable tale--Glass, badly mauled with a broken leg, was 200 miles from help. Determined, he set his own leg and made the long journey first by crawling, then by floating down a river. Following the freak encounter with the bear, Glass became a legend. He's considered one of the greatest American hunters, and knew the frontier like few people before or after him. This book tells the incredible stories that made up his life.

Excerpt from The Art of Trapping: A Complete Description of the North American Fur Bearers, Their Habits, Range; How to Make a Success of Trapping and Other Information of Great Value to the Trapper and Fur Collector In preparing this little volume, the aim has been to produce a work that will appeal to the beginner as well as the experienced trapper and collector of Fur-bearers, and to bring to the attention of every man and boy the wonder ful opportunities for pleasure and profit in trapping, in cluding such information relative to our North American Fur-bearers, as would be desired by either the amateur or the experienced trapper and Fur collector. It tells the range of the different Fur-bearers, their habits, haunts, modes of living, food, how to trap them, how to skin and handle the pelts, in fact, it is a book that will guide and help the experienced trapper and teach the beginner the art of successfully trapping the North American Fur-bearers. 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.