SETTING STEEL TRAPS 



over one hundred and twenty-five dollars. They 

 invested part oi the money in more traps and in 

 the following winter built a shanty on Little 

 Beach Ridge in which they shantied for four 

 seasons. On this ridge they found a hunter's 

 shanty occupied by a man named Ritter, who 

 had built it the year before, in 1846. In 1851 

 Folsora and Brainard built a shanty on Long 

 Ridge which they used until 1866. Then they 

 sold out and left Long Ridge. Folsom then 

 went into partnership with William Granger, 

 They built a cabin on Red Oak. This cabin 

 was burned in "73." They rebuilt it the fol- 

 lowing year and used it until he retired from the 

 trapping business in 1883, having spent a third 

 of a century in the Kankakee swamps. Uncle 

 Marl Seymour, as he was calied, who had been 

 with him for many years, continued trapping the 

 Red Oak ground until old age compelled him 

 to quit. He left his island home on the Kan- 

 kakee and spent the remaining years of his life 

 at the home of /Ar. Folsom at Hebron, Indiana. 



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