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Free e book: trapping and outdoor skills

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Below I have listed the url and a description of a free e-book I found on the Gutenberg Project site. I can't find the date where it was originally published, but I would think not later that the early 1900's. I don't trap, but I found it sorta interesting:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17093

Title: Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making

Author: William Hamilton Gibson

CONTAINING

COMPREHENSIVE HINTS ON CAMP SHELTER, LOG HUTS, BARK SHANTIES, WOODLAND BEDS AND BEDDING, BOAT AND CANOE BUILDING, AND VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS ON TRAPPERS' FOOD, ETC. WITH EXTENDED CHAPTERS ON THE TRAPPER'S ART, CONTAINING ALL THE "TRICKS" AND VALUABLE BAIT RECIPES OF THE PROFESSION; FULL DIRECTIONS FOR THE USE OF THE STEEL TRAP, AND FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF TRAPS OF ALL KINDS; DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CAPTURE OF ALL FUR-BEARING ANIMALS; VALUABLE RECIPES FOR THE CURING AND TANNING OF FUR SKINS, ETC., ETC.

BY

W. HAMILTON GIBS
 
William Hamilton Gibson
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William Hamilton Gibson


W. H. Gibson
Born October 5, 1850
Sandy Hook, Connecticut
Died July 16, 1896

Nationality American
Fields Natural history
Known for drawings
William Hamilton Gibson (October 5, 1850 - July 16, 1896) was an American illustrator, author and naturalist.

Gibson was born in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. The financial failure and in 1868 the death of his father, a New York broker, put an end to his studies in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and made it necessary for him to earn his own living. From the life insurance business, in Brooklyn, he soon turned to the study of natural history and illustration, he had sketched flowers and insects when he was only eight years old, had long been interested in botany and entomology, and had acquired great skill in making faux flowers. His first drawings, of a technical character, were published in 1870.

He rapidly became an expert illustrator and a remarkably able wood-engraver, while he also drew on tone with great success. He drew for The American Agriculturist, Hearth and Home, and Appletons American Cycloaedia; for The Youths Companion and St Nicholas; and then or various Harper publications, especially Harper's Monthly magazine, where his illustrations first gained popularity. He died of apoplexy, brought on by overwork at Washington, Connecticut, where he had had a summer studio, and where in a great boulder is inset a relief portrait of him by H. K. Bush-Brown. He was an expert photographer, and his drawings had a nearly photographic and almost microscopic accuracy of detail which slightly lessened their artistic value, as a poetic and sometimes humorous quality somewhat detracted from their scientific worth. Gibson was perfectly at home in black-and-white, but rarely (and feebly) used colors. He was a popular writer and lecturer on natural history.

Gibson illustrated S. A. Drakes In the Heart of the White Mountains, C. D. Warners New South, and E. P. Poes Natures Serial Story; and his own books, The Complete American Trapper (1876; revised, 1880, as Camp Life in the Woods); Pastoral Days: or, Memories of a New England Year (1880); Highways and Byways (1882); Happy Hunting Grounds (1886); Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine (1890); Sharp Eyes: a Ramblers Calendar (1891); Our Edible Mushrooms and Toadstools (1895); Eye Spy: A Field with Nature among Flowers and Animate Things (1897); and My Studio Neighbours (1898).
 
bladefoolish said:
Below I have listed the url and a description of a free e-book I found on the Gutenberg Project site. I can't find the date where it was originally published, but I would think not later that the early 1900's. I don't trap, but I found it sorta interesting:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17093

Title: Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making

Author: William Hamilton Gibson
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Thanks for sharing, bladefoolish. Do you know if there is a version, such as a pdf, with illustrations? The only ones that open for me are the plain text versions.

Thanks.
 
Thanks for sharing, bladefoolish. Do you know if there is a version, such as a pdf, with illustrations? The only ones that open for me are the plain text versions.I downloaded the html version, and it has illustrations
 
If you go to the Gutenberg site, and use the search function for titles having things like "Camping", "Hunting", etc. it has several old, potentially interesting books. The same author did another book about camping for boys; I also just downloaded one about big game hunting in africa around the turn of the century.
 
bladefoolish said:
Thanks for sharing, bladefoolish. Do you know if there is a version, such as a pdf, with illustrations? The only ones that open for me are the plain text versions.I downloaded the html version, and it has illustrations
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Thanks, bladefoolish, I'll try the html version.
 
Okay, everyone, I did as bladefoolish suggested and downloaded the html version, which opened fine. I would prefer to store, and read, it as a pdf, so I converted it. I'm on a Mac, so it only required a simple click (basically) to convert.

If anyone wants the pdf version that I made, shoot me an email at:
bob at dawsondoes dot com
and let me know. The pdf file is 8.4MB.
 
This is really cool! Thanks to Bladefoolish for posting it and Dawsonbob for the PDF.
 
I already sent it out once, but I'll probably do the same thing I did last time I offered to send something to a lot of people here on the forum: wait till the end of the day, and do a mass mailing. So, if you guys want it, let me know, and I'll mail it to all of you at once this evening or tomorrow morning. If there are more orders after that, then I'll do the same tomorrow, too (and every day that there are requests).
 
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