214 WITH GUN AND GUIDE 



Frank D. Kibbee, our mentor, guide and host, by 

 this time had shown us that he was all that his friends 

 claimed for him. Every one whom we met on the 

 journey to Barkerville gave him unstinted praise, and 

 after reaching that far-famed town, we received the 

 same reports from hotel men, miners and business men 

 with whom we talked. 



In his own domain he is " the boss." As a trapper, 

 hunter and guide, it is hard to beat him. 



He was born in Montana forty-two years ago, and 

 from his earliest boyhood he has always been a trapper. 

 He drifted out here ten years back and commenced 

 trapping, and was successful from the beginning. It's 

 an awfully lonely place now, and was more so then. 



He tried to get an assistant or some man whom he 

 could trust to look after his main camp and his pelts 

 while he was making the round of his traps. His 

 ground covers over one hundred and twenty miles of 

 good trapping country, over which he claims the right 

 to trap. He must be a rugged man to go over this 

 territory, set the traps and look after them properly, 

 skin the trapped animals and prepare them for ship- 

 ment to London, where they are sold at the annual fur 

 sales. 



As an assistant would have to be out in all kinds of 

 weather and always to look out for his own food 

 supply, it will be seen that it would be no easy job to 

 get any one willing to undertake the position. 



