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FUR TRAPPING

Fur Trapper and Arkansawyer Joe Johnson in the snow covered woods with some tools of the fur trapping trade: a good .22 caliber rifle, a good kill stick, and a good pick-up truck. Runnin' a trap line.

Beaver Trapping

Conibear Killer Traps are more work and harder to learn to use than snares, none the less every serious Beaver Trapper should learn how to use them safely and effectively. They are deadly on Beaver.

Fur Trapper and Animal Damage Control Trapper Joe Johnson trapping Beaver in the Ouachita River Bottoms of Arkansas, near Malvern. At that time I was the Official Beaver Damage Control Officer for Hot Spring County, Arkansas. I killed a lot of beavers.

Joe Johnson setting Beaver traps in the backwaters.

A Beaver Killed in a Conibear Trap in the Ouachita River Bottoms of Arkansas, near Malvern.

Beaver Pelts (Plews) drying in Joe Johnson's South Arkansaw Fur Shed and Taxidermy Studio.

Two more fine Beaver Pelts (Plews) drying in Fur Trapper Joe Johnson's South Arkansas Fur Shed and Taxidermy Studio.

South Arkansas Beaver and Coon Pelts

Trapping Beaver with Snares

A South Arkansas Beaver caught in a Steel Aircraft Cable Snare, on a creek near Malvern.

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Fur Trapper Joe Johnson outside his Taxidermy Studio and Fur Shed with two fine South Arkansas Beavers caught on a Snow covered Cold Winter day. Snow is uncommon in South Arkansas and a real treat for a real outdoorsman. Trapping the critters was cold work but a lot of fun, now the real work of skinning, fleshing, and stretching the pelts on a steel hoop has to be done. Fur Trapping is really a lot of work! Thanks to PETA and other such ignorant people the Fur prices are far too low and Fur Trappers are taken advantage of by the Fur Industry. Folks need to support Fur Trappers by wearing lots of Fur garments. Fur is fabulous!

More work waiting for Joe Johnson the Taxidermist inside his Malvern, Arkansas Double Eagle Taxidermy Studio and Fur Shed. Whitetail Deer heads must dry for at least 30 days before finish work is done on them. Lots more Deer Heads and Antlers on hand to mount on foam deer head forms while these dry. More Whitetail Deer heads will be brought in for skinning before the day is over, and be put in line to be mounted by Master Taxidermist Joe Johnson. Sometimes it looks and feels like a 'Deer Head Factory', and some folks ignorantly call it "Easy Money". Well at least it is warm and dry in the Taxidermy Studio and Fur Shed. This was back in the 1990s.

History of Fur Trapping in North America

Scots-Irish Americans

The "rednecks" who conquered a continent

The Long Hunters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longhunter

http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/trails/7868/index.html

http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/trails/7868/Lhunters.html

http://www.reenacting.net/

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~mpa24/history.html

"Most Long Hunters did not have use for Indians, considering them competition, and were prone to shoot them on sight. The Long Hunter was often a plain man, a poor man seeking land, relief from debt, and way to feed hungry mouths. The stark edge of life and death inured these tough, and stubborn frontier folk to toil, hardship, heat, cold, rain, snow and ice. The Long Hunter broke treaties and laws to trespass and poach on Indian land. He went West to make money in deerskins, tallow and furs. He was perhaps the freest Anglo-American of the colonial era.

The decade of the 1760's is referred to a "the golden age" of the Long Hunt." --- Larry Fiorillo, 2001

http://reenacting.net/history/longhunters.pdf

Famous Injun Fighters

AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES

Tom Quick the Indian Slayer and the Pioneers of Minisink & Wawarsink

TOM QUICK. The Indian Slayer, or The Avenger of the Delaware

LEWIS WETZEL Warfare Tactics on the Frontier