trappers

Well, Del Hancock was passing on his way through Salt Lake, going I don't know where to raise a company of Rocky Mountain trappers to go after beaver some new place he knew about.

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And from 1740 to 1880, it was a key trading route for trappers from the Hudson's Bay Co. and North West Co., both of which built trading posts along its banks.

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Well, Del Hancock was passing on his way through Salt Lake, going I don't know where to raise a company of Rocky Mountain trappers to go after beaver some new place he knew about.

Chapter 13 1913

Probably the cleverest of her trappers is a Mexican who has a faculty of catching these dangerous creatures with his bare hands.

Miracle Mongers and Their Methods 1920

Probably the cleverest of her trappers is a Mexican who has a faculty of catching these dangerous creatures with his bare hands.

The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé Harry Houdini 1900

But on their near approach, we found them a body of white men called trappers, whose occupation is to entrap the beaver and other animals that have valuable furs.

John B. Wyeth's Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey John Bound 1833

Most of the Canadians were "trappers," though I imagine many of them must have gained their experience from mouse-traps.

Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany Nellie L. McClung 1918

Unknown because it is a land of short summers and long, hard winters; because no man had ever found the precious metals here; because there is little game such as trappers venture into the far out places to get; because it is broken, rough, inhospitable.

Wolf Breed Jackson Gregory 1912

It consisted of a bunch of steel traps, some tools, a broken ax, a box of miscellaneous things such as trappers used, and a few articles of flannel.

The Last of the Plainsmen Zane Grey 1905

First as "trappers" these child laborers opened and shut the trap-doors in the passages of the mine.

Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century Joy, James Richard, 1863- 1902