A few also noted in cages recently caught by bird trappers here.
American trappers came about the same time.
Ashley did not pay the trappers a fixed wage.
But the Scots retained a respect for " democratic learning " that the French trappers often lacked.
But this movement of hunters, trappers, traders, Mormons, miners and homeseekers left nothing to show of settlement in Kansas, for which, therefore, the succession of Territorial governments organized for the northern portion of the Louisiana Purchase had no real significance.
By February 1934, a team of 15 professional trappers had managed to reduce the number of Muskrat.
Collective Supplies and Sales.-There are ten large American and Canadian companies with extensive systems for gathering the annual hauls of skins from the far-scattered trappers.
Emigrants to California followed the trappers, and many crossed Nevada in the early 'forties of the 19th century.
French-Canadian hunters and trappers, and soon the river boatmen, added an element of adventure and colour in the primitive life of the colony.
Half a century later a party of trappers of the Hudson's Bay Company entered Nevada and plied their trade along the Humboldt river.
He was hired by both the Hudson 's Bay Company and American Fur Company and worked as a guide for white trappers.
He was hired by both the Hudson's Bay Company and American Fur Company and worked as a guide for white trappers.
He would be very interested if moth trappers have caught any others; in fact any records of Stag beetles would be of interest.
It was true that the most active French colonial element, the trappers, were barbarized by the natives, and that the pursuit of the fur trade and other causes had brought the French into sharp collision with the most formidable of the native races, the confederation known as the Five (or Six) Nations.
Many traders and trappers were butchered by the Indians, who became still more troublesome after the invasion of the Territory by the gold-seekers, and the surveying of railway routes had been undertaken.
Now that the poison strychnine is to be banned for use by licensed trappers the problem will be even greater.
Ste Genevieve was settled in 1735; Fort Orleans, two-thirds of the way across the state up the Missouri river, had been temporarily established in 1720; the famous Mine La Motte, in Madison county, was opened about the same time; and before the settlement of St Louis, the Missouri river was known to trappers and hunters for hundreds of miles above its mouth.
The first white men to visit the site of Buffalo were undoubtedly the adventurous French trappers and various Jesuit missionaries.
The gnawing off of a limb is so common that it has been given the term ' wringing off ' by trappers.
The report of Lewis and Clark attracted many traders and trappers, and within a few years the Missouri Fur Company, the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, the Hudson Bay Company and the American Fur Company had established fortified trading posts on the Missouri, the Yellowstone, the Marias, the Milk and other rivers; the most prominent among these was Fort Benton, which was established in 1846 at the head of navigation on the Missouri, and was made the headquarters of the American Fur Company.
The Springs were first used by the itinerant trappers.
The title of the show, ' Tidbits for old time trappers, ' was one of the chapter headings.
Their colonists were not farmers but trappers, woodrangers, coureurs du bois, who married Indian women, and formed a mixed race known as the bois brutes.
Their expedition was followed by many private vessels manned by traders and trappers.
Thereafter for almost twenty years, Ontario was traversed only by wandering bands of trappers, chiefly belonging to the Hudson's Bay Company; but in 1782 bands of American loyalists began to occupy the fertile country along the Bay of Quinte, and in the Niagara peninsula, the first settlement being made in 1782 at Kingston.
Traps Do Not Always Kill For the animals who remain alive in the traps, further torture awaits them when the trappers return.