Word: trappers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lonely cabin near the Sikanni River in Northern British Columbia, Trapper John Pich, 38, lay abed. Two days before he had eaten tainted food. Now his belly was bloated and he was in mortal agony. Primitive John Pich thought he would die if the poison was not taken from his stomach...
...What Trapper Driberg innocently calls a "possibly outmoded derivation" the Oxford English Dictionary labels "an ingenious but baseless conjecture...
Spring came to interior Alaska with a crash, a splash and $108,000. As in 28 previous years, last week's icebreak on the Tanana (rhymes with Anna gnaw) River was big news. To the lucky sourdough or trapper who guessed the day, hour and nearest minute the ice went out would go a record $108,000. And like other big news, Alaskans knew they would hear it first from Fairbanks radio station KFAR, whose special events crew was camped at Nenana (rhymes with keen Anna), 150 miles south of the Arctic circle...
...slow-speaking, nail-hard adventurer was walking around the town of Yellowknife last week in a bright golden haze. Ulric Joseph ("Spud") Arsenault, a trapper and prospector in the Northwest Territories, had staked out 20 likely-looking claims about 50 miles north of Yellowknife last year. Last week Beaulieu Yellowknife Mines, Ltd. agreed to pay him $100,000 cash for his properties, give him 250,000 shares of stock (worth 50? a share to start) in the new company organized to develop them...
...Afraid? In Sault Sainte Marie, Ont., Alvin Phalen, a trapper, grabbed a wolf by the tail, dragged it over the snow, beat it to death with one of his skis...