Books with title Black Beaver, the trapper

"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"James Campbell Lewis (1879-1961), known as "Black Beaver" 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. ContentsI. BLACK BEAVER THE TRAPPER.II. Westward BoundIII. Back to the Upper Peninsula of MichiganIV. The Roving TrapperV. Back Among the RockiesVI. Off for New Fields of Adventure--Going to Faraway AlaskaVII. Into the UnknownVIII. Bits of Information--Characteristics of Black Beaver

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