Hudson Bay settlers

Usage examples of trappers.

The hunters and trappers who came out of the bush to call had adjusted to Julian without any trouble, once they had figured out that he could be ignored.

She recalled Vicpredominantly hardbackeqd, their paper sheaths worn t toria saying something vague about craggy old trappers where they d been held.

With roughly eight hundred trappers in the state, three fisher per trapper, the number adds up.

Avelyn had merely given the villagers and the visiting trappers an excuse for a wild party.

Bradwarden had heard the stirring in the small ramshackle hut and, upon investigation, had found the three trappers packing their gear, stripping everything from the shack walls.

Besides Pony and Avelyn, who were somewhere down amid that scrambling group, Elbryan had only the three trappers and Bradwarden.

Elbryan and the three trappers, Bradwarden and Avelyn, and all the latest refugees of Weedy Meadow, following the tentative trail opened to them by the horse stampede.

It flooded through the lobbies of the hotels and out into the streets and cafes - oil men, trappers, prospectors, bush fliers, lumber men, scientists and surveyors.

The knives of the trappers were sharp, and not one whit sharper than their tempers.

They became acquainted first in the cabin where four of the trappers lay tossing in delirium.

Yet all men were looking forward to it The trappers put in the feeble days of convalescence, making long rafts on which to pile the skins dried over winter, -- a fine variety, worth all but their weight in gold.

We had not seen Pierre in weeks, and it was said that he was one of the finest trappers in the Yukon.

In its eyes was an undisguised hunger, a malevolent intent so monstrous that some hardened trappers cried out and turned away.