Twenty years on the trap line : being a collection of revised camp notes written at intervals during a twenty years experience in trapping, wolfing and hunting, on the great Northwestern plains by Taylor Joseph Henry 1845-1908

Author:Taylor, Joseph Henry, 1845-1908
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Trapping, Hunting, Dakota Indians, Indians of North America
Publisher: Bismarck, N.D. : The Author
Published: 1891-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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On my round» to tlie traps I often noticed a small grove or biincli of trees utandinj^ out alon© on the prairie level, and about a mil»< back from the river. So ne time the spring' foUowinj^, and after I returned from a mi 1 winter traj) on Shell Creek, I dreamed of Koinjf to this bunch of trees and finding a c^ear pond of watei* filled with sun flsli, nnd five little spotted piK^, <^'8ich iu a trap, and all dead.

The dream keeping uppermost in my mind, I gathered up a kit of traps and wont to investigate. 1 found the pond and guntiih just as I had dreamed, but instead of dead i)ig«, there were })lenty of mink sign , so set the traps. I did not return for three mornings after, and then found five drowned mink in the traps.

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