The Trapper's Guide: A Complete Manual of Instructions For Capturing all Kinds of Fur Bearing Animals, and Curing their Skins; With Observations on ... of Trapping and Hunting Excursions.

“Mr. S. Newhouse, a member of the Oneida Community, having become widely known as the maker of an excellent kind of steel-traps, and it being generally understood that the practical perfection of his traps is owing to the wisdom in wood-craft which he gained in early life by actual experience in trapping, he has often been applied to by his customers and others for information in regard to the best methods of capturing various animals.” -The Editors

CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION- Connection of Trapping with other Trades, . Observations on the Fur Trade, Season for Trapping, Statistics of the Fur Trade.

THE TRAPPER'S ART– PRELIMINARIES, The Dead-fall, Poisoning, Shooting, Steel Traps Requisites of a good Trap, The Spring-pole, The Sliding-pole, The Clog, Rule for Baiting, Proper Outfit of Traps, Profits of Trapping. CAPTURE OF ANIMALS, The Muskrat, The Mink, The Marten, The Sable, The Ermine,. The Fisher, The Fox, The Otter, The Sea Otter, The Beaver,. The Wolf, The Bear,. The Raccoon, The Badger, The Wild Cat or Bay Lynx, The Lynx, The Cougar,. The Jaguar, The Lion, The Tiger, The Wolverine, The Opossum, The Skunk, The Coypu Rat, The Chinchilla, The Squirrel, The Woodchuck or Marmot, The Gopher, The Rat,. The Deer,. The Moose. III. CURING SKINS,. General Rules, . Stretching Skins, . Board Stretcher, . Muskrat Stretcher, . Bow Stretcher, Hoop Stretcher. IV. LIFE IN THE WOODS,. Outfit for a Campaign on Foot, Outfit for an Excursion by Wagon or Boat, Tent, Stove and Furniture, Bed and Bedding,. Camp Chest, Cooking, Jerked Meat, Preparations against Insects, Shanty,. Trapping Lines, Conclusion. V. THE TRAPPER'S FOOD, The Deer,. The Buffalo, The Rocky Mountain Sheep or Bighorn, The Argali, The Prong-horn Antelope, Squirrel Hunting, The Ruffled Grouse, Pinnated Grouse, Sharp-tail Grouse, Cock of the Plains, Dusky Grouse, Canada or Spruce Grouse, White-tailed Ptarmigan, Willow Ptarmigan, European Grouse, Water Fowl. VI. FISHING IN AUTUMN AND WINTER Spearing Fish, Fishing through the Ice, Net-fishing in Winter. VII. NOTES ON TRAPPING AND WOOD-CRAFT. VIII. PLAN OF A TRAPPING CAMPAIGN. By PETER M. GUNTER. IX. BOAT-BUILDING , A TRAPPING CAMPAIGN. X. SNOW-SHOES,. OIL FOR FIRE-ARMS, NAEKATIVES, AN EVENING WITH AN OLD TRAPPER, A YOUNG TRAPPER'S EXPERIENCE, THE DEER HUNT, MUSKRAT HUNTING, AN AMATEUR IN THE NORTH WOODS, TRAVELLING IN A CIRCLE, AN EXPEDITION TO THE LAURENTIAN HILLS, XI. APPENDIX. XII. HISTORY OF THE NEWHOUSE TRAP,. DESCRIPTION OF THE NEWHOUSE TRAP, XII. CONCLUSION.