21 Verbs to Use for the Word trappers

Most mountaineers in California call him the Pine Squirrel; and when I asked an old trapper whether he knew our little forester, he replied with brightening countenance: "Oh, yes, of course I know him; everybody knows him.

BURR, MALCOLM. Dersu the trapper.

"Left 'emlooky here, ye don't mean to tell meit can't be possible now he fit that hull pack, an' got out o' it alive?" exclaimed the trapper.

" "How do you know she can't be got agin, whin" "She was tomahawked afore my eyesain't that enough?" demanded the trapper, indignantly.

But p'raps ye'd better defer that ere trip fur a day or so, lad," remarked the trapper, sweeping an eye upward.

Sometimes the hunters met Creole trappers, who sent their tallow, hides, and furs in pirogues and bateaux down the Mississippi to Natchez or Orleans, instead of having to transport them on pack-horses through the perilous forest-tracks across the mountains.

Nobody left but the Hudson's Bay Company trappers, d'you reckon?

Here they had found the old trapper amid a score of nondescript human beings, white men, Indian women, and half-breed children.

It was for this that my father wished me to stay some time in France, for he would not have me grow up a mere trapper and trader.

she was worth a thousand such lives as mine" "Don't say nothin'" interrupted the trapper, endeavoring to conceal his agitation; "I've l'arned years ago what that business is.

The savages were nominally at peace with the whites, and although even at this time they occasionally murdered some solitary trapper or trader, they did not dare meddle with Pike's well armed and well prepared soldiers, confining themselves to provocation that just fell short of causing conflict.

On the second of July we met Mr. Bryant returning to prevail on some man of our company to take the place of Mr. Kendall of the bridle party, who had heard such evil reports of California from returning trappers that his courage had failed, and he had deserted his companions and joined the Oregon company.

We hallooed again, to rouse the trapper.

You see," added the trapper, impressively, "you never have found the trail, and, therefore, there ain't the shadder of a chance.

In one corner, partly shrouded in gloom, sat a half-breed trapper who had come in that day from the Lac la Ronge country, and at his feet crouched one of his wolfish sledge-dogs.

" To this there was no "Ho" at all, but a prolonged silence, which was at length interrupted by a tall chief stepping forward to address the trappers.

For one, the West was becoming overcrowded and the price of furs was falling at a rate to alarm the most conservative trapper.

"Wow! talk about your wildcats springing, that was a corker!" Jerry led the way forward, though hard put to it to keep ahead of his eager companions, anxious to assist the trapper if he needed help.

About a hundred rods brought the trapper to a second creek of larger size than the first.

I'll send Haught down to buy off the trappers.

After a year of hard work, and some lonesome times, too, in the long, dark winter, there came to the Post a young trapper and prospector, Jim Gray.

21 Verbs to Use for the Word  trappers