30 BEAVERS—THEIR WAYS. 
was moved to the ‘headwaters of upper Knife River 
where their kindred was found not so well educated in 
the art of self defense. 
Upon making inquiry concerning the astuteness of 
the beaver at the stone dams of White Earth River, we 
learned that the stream had been a thoroughfare for the 
Winterers or French Half Breeds on their going and 
coming from the buffalo range. The Winterers were 
successful trappers of the beaver, but seemed to have 
met with many reverses and were fairly outwitted by 
the beaver of the stone dams of the upper White Earth 
River. 
That these beavers were finally destroyed, we learned 
many years after—but to the high water shooter rather 
than to the trapper must be given whatever discredit 
rests with their extermination. 
