Word: trappers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Except for the prehistory, Michener paces his narrative well. He organizes the book as a series of interconnected novellas, focusing each on one or two central characters. The tale of the shrewd French trapper Pasquinel and his Scottish partner McKeag becomes a roving chronicle of the West from St. Louis to the Rockies in the early fur-trading days. In a later set piece, Michener brings pageantry to the ancient cliché of the cattle drovers beset by thirst and outlaws on the long trail from Jacks-borough, Texas, to the South Platte...
Harris is still hanging in there. Those earlier diversions-which were packaged under the title A Man Called Horse -were games at summer camp compared with the exquisite natural tortures that he endures in Man in the Wilderness. This time he appears as a trapper named Zachary Bass, who roams the Pacific Northwest during the early 18th century. The film has barely begun before Harris is attacked by a grizzly. Badly mauled, Harris is left for dead by the other members of his expedition, under the command of salty old Captain Henry (John Huston). He vows revenge. After virtually resurrecting...
...Tasaday say that most of the brass wire used for earrings was given to them by the trapper who visited them. They claim that they inherited some from their ancestors who probably got it from outsiders also...
...existence of the Tasaday, as the tribesmen call themselves, came to light after a trapper named Dafal reported that he had encountered a mysterious people on his hunting trips into the hinterland. Philippine officials checked out the rumor via helicopter and found a group of short, brown-skinned tribesmen wearing only loincloths...
...Trapper Joe Delia has only to look at himself to see why "people can't live out like they used to." Mr. Delia, who would trap wild animals for their pelts and who would net thousands of salmon "just to feed our teams," is no better than the oil companies who would ruin Alaska's fragile ecology...