Word: trappers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July Trapper Courtois was brought back to Roberval by some fire rangers, so weak he could scarcely guide his canoe. In midwinter, he said, he had sent his boys ahead to their base camp with 50 pounds of flour, a moose flank and half a beaver while he made a side trip to lay a line of traps 100 miles away. The winter was bitter. Trapper Courtois was stormbound, nearly frozen to death. When he reached the base camp weeks later his two boys were gone. Frantically he searched for them. At last, nearly starved, he had been forced...
Author Constantin-Weyer's past includes 14 eventful years in Canada as farmer, trapper, woodsman, horse-trader, fur-trader. His novel is less eventful than-his life, more in a spirit of stylistic brooding...
...Upper Finlay River, British Columbia, one J. Omera, a trapper, suffered frostbite in the four small toes of his right foot. Soon he observed that his bitten toes had become infected. Since there was no surgeon at hand, J. Omera seized a kitchen knife and whittled away for three days until his toes were off. Then he bound up his bloody foot and tramped to Prince George, where a surgeon said he had performed the amputation so efficiently that no further treatment was necessary...
...aviators, speeding westward, crashed against a mountain side. Miraculously uninjured, they picked themselves from the wreck of their plane and started on a search for life, warmth, food. For seven days they labored across that rough, uneven country. At the end of a week they came to a trapper's cabin on the southern tip of Port Moller Bay, nearly at the end of the peninsula. From this haven they flashed back word that they were safe...
Major Martin wired Major Gen. Mason M. Patrick, Chief of Army Air Service: "Crashed against mountain in fog at 12:30 o'clock. Neither hurt but ship total wreck. Our existence due to concentrated food and nerve. Arrived at a trapper's cabin, southernmost point of Port Moller's Bay, morning 7th, exhausted. Found food. Rested three days. Walked to beach. Awaiting instructions here...