Step back into America’s true wilderness years with this 240-page anthology of vintage articles, photos, and advertisements drawn from Hunter-Trader-Trapper magazine (1902-1929). Thirty-five richly illustrated articles capture the grit, ingenuity, and sheer daring of outdoorsmen who lived by their rifles, traps, and wits.
Inside you’ll find:
E. J. Dailey is hunting “pests” freelancing trapping, also has an article about a teen who traps to keep food on his widowed mother’s table and more...
E. N. Woodcock camping in good bee country, running a bear line with “Smoky Jim,” and dodging a forest fire.
Martin Hunter narrowly cheats death while chasing a ruthless fur buyer vying with the Hudson’s Bay Company, then reveals how to cure wild meat miles from civilization.
E. A. Southwick and his brother pedal from Montana to southern Oregon, switch to horseback, and spend a year mining gold and trapping high-country fur, deep in the wilderness.
Plus classic tales of duck and deer hunts, fishing, building deadfalls and hair-raising near death escapes.
Featuring 35 full-length articles, roughly 70 period photographs, and select vintage ads, every piece is reproduced in its entirety, preserving the authors’ original voices. Whether you’re a modern hunter, trapper, history buff, or armchair adventurer, Volume 3 lets you experience the resourcefulness, resilience, and raw adventure of a bygone America—one lesson and campfire story at a time.
Hunter Trader Trapper magazine was founded in 1900 by A. R. Harding. After selling the publication, Harding later returned to the outdoor press world by launching Fur-Fish-Game magazine — still in print today. Our reprint books bring back some of the best Hunter Trader Trapper stories from that golden era of outdoor writing.
