Black Beaver The Trapper

Author : George Edward Lewis
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
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Download or read book Black Beaver, the Trapper written by George Edward Lewis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Black Beaver—knows how to live outdoors better than we know how to live indoors. He never catches cold, he positively knows every time just where to sleep, he never sleeps on his back if the ground is cold or damp—always upon his stomach. He could teach the U.S. Army something worth knowing—about living out doors. Black Beaver knows what animals think. Can tell just what maneuver a dog, wolf deer, or even a fish will go through on almost every occasion." 'Black Beaver, the Trapper' is a biographical novel on the life of hunter, explorer and reluctant novelist J. C. Lewis. Lewis first hunted as a boy, and fell in love with the outdoor life from then on. His travels ultimately took him to Alaska, where he lived among the Eskimos for a number of years.

Author : James Campbell Lewis
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781104076719
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Beaver, the Trapper written by James Campbell Lewis and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : George Edward Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781409946601
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Black Beaver written by George Edward Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Beaver (1806-1888) was a Delaware Scout, interpreter and trapper. His Indian name was Sucktum- mah-kway. He spent many years in the Rocky Mountains, and led many expeditions. In 1834 he accompanied the Dodge-Leavenworth Expedition and during the Mexican War he served in the U. S. Army as a captain of Indian volunteers. In 1849 he led Capt. Randolph B. Marcy and others westward to Santa Fe via the California Road. He later occupied Camp Arbuckle, and became chief of a settlement called Beaversville. In 1853 Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple visited him there. He settled in the Leased District prior to the Civil War and built a home there. In 1861 once the war began, he led Col. William H. Emory's Federal troops from Fort Cobb to Kansas. Confederates destroyed Black Beaver's property in retaliation. He filed a claim in 1872.

Author : James Campbell Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
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Download or read book Black Beaver, the Trapper written by James Campbell Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Lewis
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ISBN 13 : 9781979281386
Total Pages : 56 pages
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Download or read book Black Beaver, the Trapper written by James Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born too late for the height of the fur trade, the author still made a living and a life on his own terms." -Reader Review "This man of the woods is amazing." -Reader Review "An almost unbelievable story ... incredible adventures." -Reader Review "It is a true experience of the life and labors of the Author." -George Edward Lewis "The President of Mexico; and the Governor of Alaska together with several hundreds between, equally as popular have urged me to write my history. I am sorry I cannot write this with my own fingers but I have a substitute in my old back-woods chum--The (Montana) Kidd. Who by the way--neither writes very flourishing, because he like myself has done the most of his writing with his six-shooter; because you know this a more expressive way of talking and a more impressive way of writing. "I shall confine myself to simple speech, such as I have used in all lands. From Gotch my bronco to Arctic my dog. It has served me since I was six summers old. It served me amid the bells of Peru and then afar amid the Agate Eyed squaws of the Kuskokwim; and this ought to be a good excuse." - J.C. LEWIS "Black Beaver" In 1911, James Campbell Lewis (1879-1961), known as "Black Beaver" published his book "Black Beaver, the Trapper" describing his life as a roving trapper, hunter, prospector, miner, and cowboy. Black Beaver had traveled as no other man ever traveled in Alaska, four times in as many years he crossed the entire country by dog-team in a diagonal way from Dawson to Point Barrow and from Gnome to the mouth of the Mackenzie river. Being able to speak several Indian dialects, he was able converse with Siwash, Mucklock, Malimouth and other types getting the most valuable kind of information. The books covers 22 years of the author's life of surviving off the land from Alaska, Washington, Canada, Michigan, Colorado, North Dakota, Montana, California, and Arizona, not to mention Australia, South America, and Central America. As the author states, "I have fought buffalo flies in Michigan, Bed Bugs in Wisconsin, Lice in Wyoming, Rattlesnakes in Colorado, Coyotes in North Dakota, Rats in Australia, Spiders in South America." In relating how he came to be known as "Black Beaver," the author writes: "When white man seemed to fail fate overcame me in the form of an Indian. This Indian was the famous Shopnegon. We trapped together on the Indian river following down into lower Michigan we also trapped the dead stream, Ausable, Tobacco and into the Houghton lake country here Shopnegon christened me as Black Beaver for I had actually trapped one. This was the only Black Beaver Shopnegon had ever seen and the only one I ever saw." Some fur-bearers weren't as easily harvested as his namesake beaver had been, and sometimes they took a physical toll on him. As Black Beaver relates, "I removed the trap and just then the Grizzly rolled over and quick as a wink hit me a spat in the face that knocked me two or three summersaults broke in my left cheek and knocked out four teeth and cut my tongue half off ... I climbed him like a monkey on a cheese. This was foolish and dangerous ..." In addition to trapping, prospecting, and gold mining, the author also spent time working as a cowboy on the Great Plains, hiring himself out to herd cattle and horses. Other ranchers hired him to rid ranches of mountain lion, bears, and wolves. You likely have never read a book written by a trapper like this. Usually some smooth gent makes up an adventure and puts them in other mouths--but this is not true of this book. It is a true experience of the life and labors of the Author.

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Total Pages : 58 pages
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Author : James Campbell Lewis
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781018424514
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Black Beaver, the Trapper written by James Campbell Lewis and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : James Campbell] 1879- [From Old [Lewis
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781359479365
Total Pages : 74 pages
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Download or read book Black Beaver, the Trapper; written by James Campbell] 1879- [From Old [Lewis and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : James Campbell Lewis
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781378674871
Total Pages : 74 pages
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Download or read book Black Beaver, the Trapper; The Only Book Ever Written by a Trapper. Twenty-Two Years with Black Beaver. Lewis and Clark a Hundred Years Later. from Th written by James Campbell Lewis and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : James Campbell Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332870202
Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book Black Beaver, the Trapper written by James Campbell Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Black Beaver, the Trapper: The Only Book Ever Written by a Trapper; Twenty-Two Years With Black Beaver; Lewis and Clark a Hundred Years Later; From the Amazon to the Mackenzie Rivers At the age of four years I began to pick up arms against small birds and animals. At the age of five I began to trap around my father's corn-shocks. When I reached my sixth year my father bought me a dog and he was my constant companion for many years. At the age of five years I began to make Bows and arrows, and cross guns, likewise sling shots. My first experience was with by bros, George and Lee in killing a woodchuck. And from this time my adventures began to multiply. All kinds of small animals fell before my accurate aim. 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.