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Book · 1881
Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making
Historical text. Trapping is tightly regulated today: seasons, licenses, trap types and target species. Some methods described here (including poisons) are illegal. Know your state's rules.
Gibson, a naturalist and illustrator, wrote this for country boys in 1881, and it became a standard. It covers camp shelters, bark shanties and log huts, beds and bedding, boat and canoe building, trappers’ food, and then the bulk of the book: steel traps, box traps, deadfalls, snares and spring-pole traps, with the habits of each fur-bearing animal and how to cure and tan skins.
See our hunting and trapping notes for context.
- Author
- W. Hamilton Gibson
- Published
- 1881, Harper & Brothers
- Topics
- Hunting & Trapping, Shelter, Camping & Woodcraft, Traditional Crafts
- Rights
- Public domain: published in the United States before 1930.
- Transcription
- Project Gutenberg eBook #17093
Contents
- Front Matter
- Book I — Traps for Large Game
- Book II — Snares or Noose Traps
- Book III — Traps for Feathered Game (part 1 of 3)
- Book III — Traps for Feathered Game (part 2 of 3)
- Book III — Traps for Feathered Game (part 3 of 3)
- Book IV — Miscellaneous Traps
- Book V — Household Traps
- Book VI — Steel Traps and the Art of Trapping (part 1 of 6)
- Book VI — Steel Traps and the Art of Trapping (part 2 of 6)
- Book VI — Steel Traps and the Art of Trapping (part 3 of 6)
- Book VI — Steel Traps and the Art of Trapping (part 4 of 6)
- Book VI — Steel Traps and the Art of Trapping (part 5 of 6)
- Book VI — Steel Traps and the Art of Trapping (part 6 of 6)
- Book VII — Campaign Life in the Wilderness (part 1 of 2)
- Book VII — Campaign Life in the Wilderness (part 2 of 2)
- Book VIII — The Trapper's Miscellany (part 1 of 3)
- Book VIII — The Trapper's Miscellany (part 2 of 3)
- Book VIII — The Trapper's Miscellany (part 3 of 3)