Camp Life in the Woods
And the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making
3. Auflage
Erschienen am 1. November 2023
352 Seiten
978-1-4930-8132-5 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
First published in 1881, this complete illustrated guide reveals how to catch everything from squirrels and mice to tigers and bears, and offers general advice on camping and hiking in the woods. Among the treasures within are easy-to-follow plans for building dozens of traps; comprehensive directions for the building of shanties and log cabins, and boats and canoes; hints on food and cooking utensils; instructions for the curing and tanning of hides; and much, much more, including these indispensable tidbits of advice:
Smear oil of cumin on the trail of a wolf to lure him to the trap.
Repel mosquitoes with oil from a pennyroyal plant's leaves.
Do not "calculate very confidently on securing a fox on the first attempt."
Combat a skunk's odor with chloride of lime.
Use a rabbit's special fondness for salt to entice it into a trap.
Make homemade flypaper out of molasses or spruce gum.
Smear oil of cumin on the trail of a wolf to lure him to the trap.
Repel mosquitoes with oil from a pennyroyal plant's leaves.
Do not "calculate very confidently on securing a fox on the first attempt."
Combat a skunk's odor with chloride of lime.
Use a rabbit's special fondness for salt to entice it into a trap.
Make homemade flypaper out of molasses or spruce gum.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
This is a reprint of an excellent 1881 book that gives real insight into 19th Century woods living and trapping.The book is written for the trapper intending to stay in the woods through trapping season. The construction of the trapper's base camp cabin and line cabins is covered as is how to make a birch bark canoe, dugout canoe, a scow, and a wooden boat as well as more mundane items like snowshoes and the Indian sledge for traversing the snow... We have come a long way since 1881 and it is worth knowing how they did things back then and how much they could do with very little and the things that nature provides. This is information worth knowing that has largely been forgotten to the detriment of today's outdoorsman. Knowing how these men went into the woods and stayed for a trapping season can be vital for the backwoodsman intent on staying deep in the woods. I can highly recommend this book. * thegunmag.com *Weitere Details
Auflage
3rd Edition
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
New York
USA
Verlagsgruppe
Globe Pequot Press
Illustrationen
124 BW Illustrations
Dateigröße
14,07 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-8132-5 (9781493081325)
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Person
W. Hamilton Gibson (1850-1896) was an illustrator, author, and naturalist who illustrated for Harper's Monthly and for around a dozen books, most of them his own, including Pastoral Days, Highways and Byways, and Happy Hunting Grounds.
Inhalt
- Front Cover
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS.
- PREFACE
- BOOK I. TRAPS FOR LARGE GAME.
- THE DEAD-FALL.
- THE GUN TRAP.
- THE BOW TRAP.
- THE DOWNFALL.
- THE BEAR TRAP.
- THE PIT-FALL.
- THE LOG COOP TRAP.
- THE NET TRAP.
- BOOK II. SNARES OR NOOSE TRAPS.
- QUAIL SNARE.
- HOOP NOOSES.
- THE "TWITCH-UP."
- THE POACHER'S SNARE.
- THE PORTABLE SNARE.
- THE "SIMPLEST" SNARE.
- THE QUAIL SNARE.
- THE BOX SNARE.
- THE DOUBLE BOX SNARE.
- GROUND SNARES.
- BOOK III. TRAPS FOR FEATHERED GAME.
- THE SIEVE TRAP.
- THE BRICK TRAP.
- THE COOP TRAP.
- THE BAT FOWLING NET.
- THE CLAP NET.
- THE BIRD WHISTLE.
- THE WILD GOOSE TRAP.
- THE TRAP CAGE.
- THE SPRING NET TRAP.
- A SIMPLER NET TRAP.
- THE UPRIGHT NET TRAP.
- THE BOX OWL TRAP.
- THE BOX BIRD TRAP.
- THE PENDENT BOX TRAP.
- THE HAWK TRAP.
- THE WILD DUCK NET.
- THE HOOK TRAP.
- THE "FOOL'S CAP" TRAP.
- BIRD LIME.
- THE HUMMINGBIRD TRAP.
- BOOK IV. MISCELLANEOUS TRAPS.
- THE COMMON BOX TRAP.
- ANOTHER BOX TRAP.
- THE FIGURE FOUR TRAP.
- THE "DOUBLE ENDER."
- THE SELF-SETTING TRAP.
- THE DEAD-FALL.
- THE GARROTE.
- THE BOW TRAP.
- THE MOLE TRAP.
- A FISH TRAP.
- BOOK V. HOUSEHOLD TRAPS.
- THE BARREL TRAP.
- THE BOX DEAD-FALL.
- THE BOARD-FLAP.
- THE BOX PIT-FALL.
- CAGE TRAP.
- THE JAR TRAP.
- BOWL TRAPS.
- FLY PAPER.
- FLY TRAP.
- BOOK VI. STEEL TRAPS AND THE ART OF TRAPPING.
- REQUISITES OF A GOOD STEEL TRAP.
- HINTS ON BAITING THE STEEL TRAP.
- THE SPRING POLE.
- THE SLIDING POLE.
- THE CLOG.
- THE GRAPPLING IRON.
- THE SEASON FOR TRAPPING.
- THE ART OF TRAPPING.
- "MEDICINES," OR SCENT BAITS.
- CASTOREUM.
- CASTOREUM COMPOSITION.
- MUSK.
- ASSAFOETIDA.
- OIL OF RHODIUM.
- FISH OIL.
- OIL OF SKUNK.
- OIL OF AMBER.
- OIL OF ANISE.
- SWEET FENNEL.
- CUMIN.
- FENUGREEK.
- LAVENDER.
- COMPOUND.
- THE TRAIL.
- HOW TO TRAP.
- THE FOX.
- THE WOLF.
- THE PUMA.
- THE CANADIAN LYNX.
- THE WILD CAT.
- THE BEAR.
- THE RACCOON.
- THE BADGER.
- THE BEAVER.
- THE MUSKRAT.
- THE OTTER.
- THE MINK.
- THE PINE MARTEN.
- THE FISHER.
- THE SKUNK.
- THE WOLVERINE.
- THE OPOSSUM.
- THE RABBIT.
- THE WOODCHUCK.
- THE GOPHER.
- THE MOLE.
- SQUIRRELS.
- THE DEER.
- THE MOOSE.
- ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP.
- THE BUFFALO.
- THE PRONG HORN ANTELOPE.
- SHOOTING AND POISONING.
- BOOK VII. CAMPAIGN LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS.
- PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.
- FOOD AND COOKING UTENSILS.
- THE TRAPPER'S SHELTER.
- BARK SHANTY.
- TENTS.
- BEDS AND BEDDING.
- TENT CARPETING.
- BOOK VIII. THE TRAPPER'S MISCELLANY.
- INSECT OINTMENTS.
- BOAT BUILDING.
- "DUG-OUT" OR LOG CANOE.
- THE INDIAN OR BIRCHBARK CANOE.
- A LIGHT HOMEMADE BOAT.
- THE SCOW.
- SNOWSHOES.
- THE TOBOGGAN OR INDIAN SLEDGE.
- CURING SKINS.
- STRETCHERS.
- THE HOOP STRETCHER.
- TANNING SKINS.
- HOW TO TAN MINK AND MUSKRAT SKINS.
- HOW TO TAN THE SKINS OF THE BEAVER, OTTER, RACCOON, AND MARTEN.
- OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY OF FURS AND THE FUR TRADE.
- MARKET VALUE OF FUR SKINS.
- TABLE OF VALUES OF AMERICAN FUR SKINS.
- AMERICAN FUR SKINS-THEIR USES AT HOME AND ABROAD.
