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...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...
With fur prices so undependable, there is scarcely a trapper working in Alaska today who does not look for extra income. In the summer, Delia works for the FAA people at the Skwentna airstrip. His wife is postmistress (the post office is in their log home on the Skwentna River), and adds to the family income in that...
...guide for one of the big outfits, I get $45 a day, eleven hundred a month guaranteed. By taking out my own hunters, I make fifteen hundred in two weeks. However, that takes me away from home for three months at a time. "As far as the professional trapper is concerned, he's just about gone. Take this country here. In recent years, there's been oil exploration. Last year they were drivin' pickup trucks through the woods here-ten, fifteen miles from Skwentna! It brings in people, and there's not any room. Right...
...Hawkeye Pierce, Donald Sutherland plays the penultimate draftee, a drooping, lugubrious sack of sadness who makes Beetle Bailey look like Douglas MacArthur. His sidekick, Trapper, pungently played by Elliott Gould, is a fur-bearing slob with the skills of a Christiaan Barnard and the instincts of a pornographer. "How was it?" he teases Burns, post-coitus: "Better than self-abuse...
Davis is beguilingly guileful as a runaway slave who changes hands like a dirty dollar. He is captured by a band of Indians, who unload him on Fur Trapper Lancaster as "payment" for the load of skins they steal from him. The redskins, in turn, are zapped by a batch of bounty hunters, who earn their living by selling Indian scalps for $25 apiece, and Davis gets himself captured by these private enterprisers. Their queen is Shelley Winters, a refugee from a fancy house. She nurses her stogie on a brass bed in the covered wagon...