Download or read book The Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making written by William Hamilton Gibson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2010 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contains comprehensive hints on the camp shelter, log huts, bark shanties, woodland beds and bedding, boat and canoe building, and valuable suggestions on trapper's food, etc. With extended chapters on the trapper's art, containing all the "tricks" and valuable bait recipes of the profession; full directions for the use of the steel trap, and for the construction of traps of all kinds; detailed instructions for the capture of all fur-bearing animals; valuable recipes for the curing and tanning of fur skins, etc., etc."