Word: trapper
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...langorous blonde named June Smaaladen, was held as a material witness. It was charged that their fishing feats had not been altogether on the up& -up. Ringleader Zuanich, a sneaky-eyed no-good from nearby Everett, confessed that he had bought four whopping salmon from an Indian fish trapper, had hidden them at an isolated spot on the edge of the bay. On Derby morning, he and his three accomplices, to whom he had promised $300 apiece from the resale price of their prize-winning automobiles, rowed out to the spot, rowed in whooping with their dead whoppers...
...fortnight took a good look at the murals in Boise's new courthouse, they were fit to be tied. The murals, by R. G. Bartlett and Los Angeles WPA workers, showed a cabin on the Oregon Trail-with boarded gables and white New England picket fence; a sissy trapper standing by while an Indian seized his horse. "That may be good art but it isn't true to nature," yelped angry Probate Judge John Jackson. "Any trapper who let an Indian get that close to his horse would be ostracized as unworthy of the guild...