Of the numerous other farms, and the small villages on both sides of the straits, and of the many families and individuals living as traders or trappers with the Indians, I can get no good record.
Unscrupulous trappers very often try to get over these giving-away marks by plucking the hairs out of the ears and by greasing and smoking the side patches.
The trappers and hunters (Indians) only come down from the interior from the tenth of June, and all the way down to the end of the month.
They are just fairly good trappers and their success is about what two industrious men could do who had a knowledge of trapping.
White trappers have penetrated their country in all directions from the line of railway and exterminated most of the fur-bearing animals.
Trappers is out of date; so is highwaymen, I judge.
Nobody won't never come to live in these plains," Brick declared, "unless its trappers and characters like us.
Not but what I've seen lots of trappers and squatters in my day, but I never wanted to stroll with them.
Rainsford, as well as by a number of the best hunters and trappers whom I have met, and by certain very significant facts.
A number of hunters and trappers were "in" from their hunting-grounds, and a village of Shians and some lodges of Kioways were camped round the fort.
Snow covered the ground, and the trappers were obliged to gather willow twigs, and strip the bark from cottonwood trees, in order to keep them alive.
It is said by old trappers that they will smell the well-prepared essence the distance of a mile.
The trappers made arrangements at the rendezvous for the fall hunt; and the party who were so fortunate as to secure Carson's services, went to the Yellowstone River, in the Blackfeet country, but met with no success.
They rallied yet again, and charged with so much power, and in such numbers, they forced the trappers to retreat.
These were usually prepared by the trappers at home or at their camps, for cords of hemp or flax were scarce in the days of beaver hunting.
After leaving the Mission of San Fernando, Young's party trapped upon the San Joaquim, but they found that another party of trappershad been there before them, employed by the Hudson Bay Company, in Oregon.
Early in the autumn of 1829, Mr. Young and his party of trappers set out on their return home.
The trappers and traders, together with the deserters from whalers and other ships, banded together in small communities of the rough type familiar to any observer of our frontier communities.
Southwest of the Missouri River the ancient town of Santa Fé attracted trappers and traders of all nations and from all parts of the great West.
He maintained a force of trappers who were always welcome at his fort, and whom he generously kept without cost to themselves.
Although I ate very sparingly on the day the trappers found me, I soon began to suffer greatly from bloating and nausea.
In Hamilton Inlet, west of Rigolet, all of the trappers and fishermen are called planters.
We camped at a place where the four trappers on their journey in had cached a fat porcupine.
Why did not the men come to look for us--the trappers that George was to send?
And, although the trappers could not understand my reasons, I refused to consent to its burial in the wilderness.
During this talk, the kind-hearted trappers had not been idle.
I had never yet seen one of these creatures, but had often heard hunters and trappers tell what pests they were, following them on their rounds, robbing and tearing up their traps almost as rapidly as they could set them.
The nearby streams were rich in beaver, and furs were shipped by trappers and traders to eastern markets.
Catnip in this form has been used as a lure by some trappers with a fair degree of success.
The brief description here presented of trapping methods to be used in bobcat control is based on field experiences of Federal and cooperative trapperswho have applied methods developed by the Bureau of Biological Survey.
Trappers who knew of it long ago never returned, believing that the beaver were all gone forever, and it was too near to the warlike Sioux of the plains for mountain Indians to make a home there.
The beaver, he believed, had been found on this very brook, and when they were all taken the trappers had gone away, leaving the cabin forever, as they had left many another one.
While Dick's spring pole was his own invention, as far as he was concerned, it was the same as that used by thousands of other trappers and hunters.
Nor did he have any doubt but that this hut had been built by beaver trappers long ago, either by independent hunters, or by those belonging to one of the great fur companies.
Albert now recalled a device of trappers of which he had read.
Madelon Dace smiled serenely, for she knew when the next trappers came in her lover would be among them, and a speedy wedding follow.
Then the stores of provisions to be sent back to the trappers and hunters, the clothes and blankets and trinkets for the Indians, kept shopkeepers busy day and night, and poured money into their coffers.
Seventy, without counting some fifteen hunters and trappers occupied without, but whom I will recall without delay.
These trappers have no money except at the end of the fur season, and then most of them are in debt to the storekeepers.
And the furtrappers live on house-boats, renting their hunting rights.
Well," continued Pat, "before this law was made trappers used to chop a hole in the side of a house and set a trap on the bed inside.
This the boys were only too glad to do while the two trappers stretched out in their bunks and rested.
He had set in his own mind the same figure Hal had given, but he had caught that smile of the two trappers and he suspected that Hal was rather wide of the mark.
I had an idea that most trappersused those almost altogether these days.
Many trapperslose money by careless handling of the furs.
Some trappers boil the traps in hemlock boughs to kill the scent.
Before there were any laws to protect deer and moose they used to be slaughtered in the yards by trappers and lumber jacks because it is no trick at all for a man on snow-shoes to run them down.
Trappers mostly work in pairs, but sometimes one goes it alone like my friend up in Brunswick.
For the other three trappers had gathered all their possessions and clothed themselves like gentlemen, and taking Speug's clothes with them, ferried themselves across with rapidity and dignity.
The trappers made another hiding-place, and left there the superfluous garments of civilisation, confining themselves to a shirt and trousers, and a belt which holds the pistol and tomahawk.
He had plenty of good food, and entertained me besides by a fund of anecdotes, incidents in Indian history, and adventures of traders, trappers and missionaries in the Lake Superior and St. Croix region.
Of course there had been occasional whites, hunters, trappers and missionaries, but the formidable movements of the now dominant race had not fairly commenced.
Both trappers and rangers--acting under like impulse with myself--had spurred their horses into a gallop, and followed close at my heels.
Had we not known already, the trappers could have told by the sign of the camp to what tribe the Indians belonged.
The trappershad mounted, and were galloping with the rest.
I noticed that the trappers behaved less recklessly than the rest; before going down to drink, the eyes of both were directed, with instinctive caution, along the banks, and into the timber.
We had no difficulty about our course; it was plainly traced out for us; the trappers had "blazed" it.
Neither the trappers nor myself were astonished at finding these odd "notions" in such a place; on the contrary, it was natural we should have looked for them there.
As the trappershad conjectured, they found the tracks in the muddy margin of the spring-branch.
The greaser who guided you out, brought back word that two trappers had gone after you.
This was especially the case around the glade where the trappers had taken their stand, and which was completely enclosed by a wall of the great organ cactus, with aloes, opuntias, and other juicy-leaved plants.
Fortunately, there was timber near; and in a few seconds we had all ridden into it, taking the horses of the trappers along with us.
The trappers led him between them, secured to the saddles of both by a lazo.
With the trappers for my guides, I should soon get into the right road.
A full pack there had been, as the trappers could tell by the numerous tracks, and that they were following the horse, the tracks also testified to these men of strange intelligence.
The night was a clear one, though moonless; but the heaven was spangled with its sparkling worlds, and the starlight enabled me to make out the forms of the two trappers and the group of browsing horses.
The trappers recognised an affluent of the Rio Bravo, running from the north--from the high steppe of the Llano Estacado.
I cared not if they did return; I cared not who left me, so long as the trappers remained true.
And sometimes the trappers were held prisoners for days at a time in the tilts, for to have gone forth would have been to go to certain destruction.
David was aware, however, that at this late season thetrappers had already gone to their trails, or had already completed their arrangements for the winter.
The snowshoes had been hanging on a peg just outside the tilt door, for trappersdo not take snowshoes into warm tilts, where the heat would injure the babish, or netting.
Idleness always breeds discontent, and the trappers chafed, and became moody, when storms interfered with the regular routine of their work.
In some parts of the backwoods spirits are (fortunately) so difficult to procure, that hunters and trappers live for many months without tasting a drop, and get into the habit of doing entirely without intoxicating drink of any kind.
The lad set off at once, and, as the glen was not far distant, soon returned with a flat wooden sledge, six feet long by eighteen inches broad, on which trappers are wont to pack their game in winter.
Among the trappers who first blazed the trails to the West, 30 beaver skins were considered a fair price for an able bodied squaw.
Those who own a breeding stock of minks ask high prices for them; but trappers represent to us that it is an easy matter to get the wild young ones.
A fine sieve is generally used by trappers to sift dirt over the trap when set, but you can dispense with this if you wear gloves.
The three men had been hunters and trappers for many years.
The trappers looked in each others' faces, laughed, made some characteristic remarks, and then turned to their own business.
Probably they were fired by Indians on the hunt, or possibly some of the trappers of that section had not yet started on their long journey to St. Louis.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trappers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
