A WORD FROM MR. WOODCOCK. 



CHE editor of HUNTER-TRADER-TRAPPER has requested 

 a foreword of introductory to FIFTY YEARS A HUNTER 

 AND TRAPPER OR EXPERIENCE OF E. N. WOODCOCK, 

 saying that so many have enjoyed my articles, which have 

 appeared from time to time in HUNTER-TRADER-TRAPPER, 

 extending over a period of some ten years, 1903 to 1913, 

 that same are to be published in book form. 



I was born at Lymansville, Potter County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, August 30, 1844. From early childhood, my nature 

 led me to the Forests and Streams. I have hunted in 

 many of the states of the Far West including the three 

 Pacific States California, Oregon and Washington. I 

 killed my first panther or cougar in the mountains of Idaho 

 on the headwaters of the Clearwater river. My first real 

 experience in wolfing was in Southeastern Oregon. ' I met 

 my greatest number of deer in Northwestern California. 



I have trapped of late years, in nearly all of the states 

 east of the Mississippi river and also on the White River 

 of Arkansas; also trapped bear and other fur bearing ani- 

 mals and hunted deer in Northern Michigan, also forty 

 years ago. 



Another sport which I enjoyed was the "pigeon days." 

 I have netted wild pigeons from the Adirondack Moun- 

 tains in New York state to Indian Territory now Okla- 

 homa trapping them in the states of Michigan, Indiana, 

 Missouri, Pennsylvania and New York. 



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