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Who Shot JR?
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2011
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Firearms, Traps & Tools of the Mountain Men
“Mr. Sewell Newhouse began making steel traps in 1823 in Oneida County, New York. His hand-forged products were superior; during a quarter of a century of Newhouse blacksmithing, they built a good reputation for their maker and stirred widespread demand. In the 1840’s Mr. Newhouse joined the Oneida Community, where he and a few assistants continued in the manufacture of hand-forged traps. Within a few years ingenious machines were invented at Oneida, whick took over some of the work that heretofore had always been done by hand. Within a decade after the arrival of Newhouse most of the trap manufacture at Oneida was handled by machines, and production was enormous. The best grade of traps made by the Oneida Community retained the trade name “Newhouse”. For more than a hundred years the name has stood for the best in steel traps - something of an institutional monument to one country blacksmith”. (p.382)
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Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men
Carl P. Russel
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"In Montana we caught fine beaver, The beaver is a very instinctive animal. There are several varieties, The Dam Builder, The Bank Beaver, The Bachelor Beaver and the Drone Beaver. The beaver ranges in color from white to black. I never saw a white one, and but one black one except when I looked in the glass. The Beaver weighs from twenty to thirty pounds in the United States, and from forty to fifty in Alaska. His food is bark, young grass and such foods, They cut timber down and know where it will fall. I ascertained this because I have known them to leave trees alone which leaned the wrong direction for them to use. I saw on the North Platte trees cut down by beaver which were four feet in diameter. They make chips resembling a chopper with a dull ax. He cuts his timber for winter and anchors it down four feet under water with mud useing his tail as a scow and also for a spade. [Pg 28]"
BLACK BEAVER
THE TRAPPERThe 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
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