January, 1923 
TRAPPING THE THREE 
RIVER ZONE 
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catching the beaver they use some very 
odd methods, among which may be men¬ 
tioned snaring and breaking open the 
houses. This latter method is extremely 
unfair, <as at certain times of the season 
it leaves the beavers without a home 
other than their bank retreats. 
When I finally pulled down to the 
Baptiste I was delighted to find that a 
fur buyer was there and after consid¬ 
erable haggling, sold him my entire 
catch, averaging $4.00 and bears $8.00. 
Not a very big price, but such is the life 
of a trapper! 
A FTER I had left the Baptiste that 
spring I was somewhat disgusted 
with the trapping trade; I had caught 
quite a large number of furs, but was 
disappointed in the price I realized from 
them. When I landed in Edmonton the 
World War was on full tilt and there 
was a great cry for recruits. After 
looking at it from various angles I de¬ 
cided that it was up to me to take a 
crack at the Hun. I enlisted in the 
202nd (Sportsmen’s) Battalion, and left 
for Sarcee Camp, near Calgary. 
While in training at Sarcee I had the 
good luck to run across a young fellow 
named Forrest Adair, who had trapped 
a number of miles south of me the pre¬ 
vious winter. We lived over our trap¬ 
ping experiences a great many times. 
I will never forget the first march we 
took. It was during fair time in Cal¬ 
gary. We had to march seven miles in 
the morning, having the remainder of 
the day off and coming home in the cool 
of the evening. On the way back to 
camp a number of the new recruits 
played out. We had nothing but our 
rifles to carry and I was astonished that 
men could stand so little. Once a lieu¬ 
tenant asked me, with solicitude too, if 
I thought I could hold out, being on my 
first march! I smiled to myself and 
wondered what he would think had he 
but known that I had walked all the way 
from the Athabasca to Edson, a distance 
of fifty-three miles over rough mountain 
trails, in exactly fourteen hours, and 
that less than two weeks previously! 
After I returned to my home in 
Washington I was soon planning an¬ 
other trip to the Baptiste. I was de¬ 
lighted to see my folks, but after a 
month had passed I felt the urge to re¬ 
turn to the wilderness smiting me worse 
than ever. Once my poor mother saw 
that I was determined to go back, she 
put her own feelings to one side and 
assisted me in every way possible. In 
reading accounts of the various explora¬ 
tions into unknown regions I cannot 
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