FOREST AND STREAM; [Fep, 3, 1906. 
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MY SIATY YEARS ON THE PLAINS 
Sixty-three years ago “Bill’ Hamilton, then 
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no striving for effect. 
the trapper’s life. It is full of adventure and ex- 
with seven other free trappers under the leader- 
ship of old “Bill” Williams. . Seven of these 
eight men are dead, but Hamilton still lives in 
Montana and still sets his traps. He has written 
the story of his early trapping days, and the book 
has just been published. “My Sixty Years on the 
citement, but the story is told modestly, and 
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It is illustrated by a portrait of the author 
and one of the celebrated Chief Washaki, and 
by six drawings of old-time trapper and Indian 
life, by Mr. Charles M. Russell, the celebrated 
cowboy artist of Great Falls, Mont. 
223 pages, cloth, illustrated. Price, $1.50. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUB. CO., NEW YORK. 
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