The Mad Trapper Of Rat River

Author : Dick North
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1461749859
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad Trapper of Rat River written by Dick North and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Arctic trails do indeed have their secret tales, and one of the best is that of The Mad Trapper of Rat River, equal to the legends of Bonnie and Clyde or John Dillinger. Now author Dick North (of course) may have solved the mystery of the Mad Trapper's true identity, thereby enhancing the saga."--Thomas McIntyre, author of Seasons & Days: A Hunting Life "A courageous and unrelenting posse on the trail of a furious and desperate wilderness outlaw . . . Lean and bloody, meticulously researched, The Mad Trapper of Rat River is a dark and haunting story of human endurance, adventure, and will that speeds along like the best fiction."--Bob Butz, author of Beast of Never, Cat of God They called it "The Arctic Circle War." It was a forty-eight-day manhunt across the harshest terrain in the world, the likes of which we will never see again. The quarry, Albert Johnson, was a loner working a string of traps in the far reaches of Canada's Northwest Territories, where winter temperatures average forty degrees below zero. The chase began when two Mounties came to ask Johnson about allegations that he had interfered with a neighbor's trap. No questions were asked. Johnson discharged the first shot through a hole in the wall of his log cabin. When the Mounties returned with reinforcements, Johnson was gone, and The Arctic Circle War had begun. On Johnson's heels were a corps of Mounties and an irregular posse on dogsled. Johnson, on snowshoes, seemed superhuman in his ability to evade capture. The chase stretched for hundreds of miles and, during a blizzard, crossed the Richardson Mountains, the northernmost extension of the Rockies. It culminated in the historic shootout at Eagle River.

Author : Barbara Smith
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1927051088
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mad Trapper written by Barbara Smith and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Albert Johnson, the Mad Trapper of Rat River, was gunned down in February 1932, he went to his death without anyone knowing who he really was—most people believed the name "Albert Johnson" was an alias. He'd eluded a well-organized, well-equipped posse for seven weeks, surviving solely on wits and determination in the bitter cold of a Canadian Arctic winter. Some 75 years later, he was being pursued again, this time by a team of filmmakers and forensic scientists bent on determining his identity once and for all. In this age of DNA testing and leading-edge forensic techniques, would the decades-old mystery finally be solved? Myth Merchant Films' Michael Jorgensen and Carrie Gour hoped so. Armed with a television production crew and a group of top forensic scientists, they headed to Aklavik, Northwest Territories. The team exhumed Johnson's body, examined the remains and harvested samples for further testing and DNA comparison with potential kin. The results were broadcast in a Discovery Channel documentary, Hunt for the Mad Trapper. Author Barbara Smith was on hand to witness it all. In this book she takes readers to the isolated northern community of Aklavik, where the legend began, recounts the tale of the manhunt that mesmerized the world, describes the exhumation and subsequent scientific analyses and shares the astonishing information unearthed in Myth Merchant's investigation.

Author : Vernon Frolick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780888390264
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Descent Into Madness written by Vernon Frolick and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story based on the diaries of murderer Michel Oros. Originally, after the fatal shootout with Oros at Teslin Lake, I had no intention of writing this book. In fact, when Garry Rodgers and I sat in the Skeena Pub after he got back and discussed the details of his experience, the very idea that someone might write the story - glorifying Oros, sensationalizing the murders and trivializing Mike Buday's death - was repugnant. Black and white reprint.

Author : Frank W. Anderson
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1926613260
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Albert Johnson written by Frank W. Anderson and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Johnson was a loner, a deadly shot, who in 1932 triggered a gruelling manhunt that has become an Arctic legend. For over six weeks, amid blizzards and numbing cold, he eluded a posse of trappers, First Nations and RCMP, who for the very first time used a two-way radio and an airplane in their search. Johnson was involved in four shoot-outs, killing one policeman and gravely wounding two other men before being shot to death. Over a half-century later, an intriguing mystery remains: Who was Albert Johnson?

Author : Helena Katz
Publisher : Heritage Amazing Stories
ISBN 13 : 9781551537870
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mad Trapper written by Helena Katz and published by Heritage Amazing Stories. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the story of Canada's largest manhunt when hundreds of men spent 7 weeks tracking Albert Johnson across the frozen North.

Author : Dick North
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780771595776
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mad Trapper of Rat River written by Dick North and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Albert Johnson, The Mad Trapper of Rat River who defied a combined force of white trappers, Indians and the RCMP for 48 days in a running battle over 150 miles of the Arctic Circle and who was finally killed in the Yukon Territory on Feb. 17, 1932.

Author : Ed O’Loughlin
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1487002521
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minds of Winter written by Ed O’Loughlin and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2017-02-04 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Minds of Winter is a mesmerizing novel about the chance meeting of two present-day travellers who expose one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration. Fay Morgan and Nelson Nilsson have each arrived in Inuvik, Canada, about 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Both are in search of answers about a family member: Nelson for his estranged older brother, and Fay for her vanished grandfather. Driving Fay into town from the airport on a freezing January night, Nelson reveals a folder left behind by his brother. An image catches Fay’s eye: a clock she has seen before. Soon Fay and Nelson realize that their relatives have an extraordinary and historic connection — a secret share in one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of polar expedition. This is the riddle of the “Arnold 294” chronometer, which reappeared in Britain more than a hundred years after it was lost in the Arctic with the ships and men of Sir John Franklin’s Northwest Passage expedition. The secret history of this elusive timepiece, Fay and Nelson will discover, ties them and their families to a journey that echoes across two centuries.

Author : Osborne Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of a Trapper written by Osborne Russell and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry C. Lee
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615921419
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shocking Cases from Dr. Henry Lee's Forensic Files written by Henry C. Lee and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee presents a true-crime page-turner on five notorious cases, including the Phil Spector shooting case, the brutal murder of a nun in Toledo, and genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Dick North's Mad Trapper of Rat River written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2024-03-11 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the Summary of Dick North's Mad Trapper of Rat River in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Mad Trapper of Rat River" by Dick North is a detailed account of the enigmatic figure Albert Johnson, known as the "Mad Trapper," and the intense manhunt that unfolded in the Canadian Arctic during the winter of 1931-1932. The narrative begins with the Snowshoes brothers' encounter with Johnson and follows the subsequent events that led to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) being alerted to his presence. Johnson's standoff with the Mounties, his exceptional survival skills, and the eventual deadly confrontation that resulted in his death are meticulously chronicled...