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Before you set a trap, can you see the woods through an animal’s habits?
In Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper, E. N. Woodcock shares a working life spent hunting game and trapping animals for their fur. His memoir takes you into the American backwoods, where a living depends on knowing the land, choosing the right tools and learning to wait.
Woodcock wants younger outdoorsmen to learn what the woods teach him. He explains how to watch where animals feed, drink, travel and rest before setting a trap. Alongside these practical lessons come accounts of bears and larger game, and a picture of a wilderness way of life under change.
What you’ll discover
- The art of watching Follow animal habits and see why careful observation comes before any successful trapping.
- Tools of the trade Explore traps, snares, deadfalls, baits and scents through the plain explanations of a working trapper.
- Bears demand a steady head Enter accounts where stronger traps, caution and nerve matter when dealing with larger animals.
- Patience as practical knowledge Discover how waiting and close attention belong beside gear in the trapper’s working life.
- A changing backwoods world Look beyond the lessons to a livelihood rooted in the land and the animals it holds.
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For readers who love outdoor life, frontier history and practical know-how, and anyone who enjoys a plain, firsthand voice describing hunting, trapping and life in the American backwoods.
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- A trapper learns by watching animals
- Good gear and good bait matter
- Hunting bears and big game takes nerve
- A vanishing way of life
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Cinquant’anni da cacciatore e trappoliere
by E. N. Woodcock · 1905
A veteran trapper shares the animal habits, woodcraft and respect for dangerous game that shape a life in the backwoods.
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Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper is the memoir of a working life spent in the woods. E.
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A trapper learns by watching animals
Woodcock's first lesson is that trapping begins with observation. Before any trap is set, the trapper must know where an animal feeds, where it drinks, which paths it takes and where it rests. Tracks in mud, snow and soft earth tell him which animals pass by and how often they come.
The author treats each animal as having its own habits and its own cunning. A fox, a mink and a bear do not behave alike, and the same method will not take them all. A man who studies one animal for years, he suggests, will catch it more often than a man who buys the best gear and pays no attention to the ground around him.
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What is Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper about?
It is a memoir by E. N. Woodcock about his long career hunting and trapping in the American backwoods. It mixes personal experience with practical advice on animals, traps, baits and survival in the wild.
Who was E. N. Woodcock?
Woodcock was an American outdoorsman who made his living by hunting and trapping for roughly half a century. He died in 1917 and is remembered mainly for this book, which passed on his methods.
Is Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper a true story?
Yes. It is a nonfiction memoir drawn from the author's own experience. It was written in the early twentieth century, near the end of his long career in the woods.
The author
E. N. Woodcock
American hunter and writer
E. N. Woodcock was an American hunter and trapper who died in 1917. He spent most of his working life in the woods and later set down what he had learned in this memoir, which was meant for younger outdoorsmen. It is his best-known work.
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