Thrilling Adventures - Guilding, Trapping, Big Game Hunting - From the Rio Grande to the Wilds of Maine

V. E. Lynch

• Publisher: Obscure Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781444658132, 9781444658606
• eBook ISBN: 9781473386273

Originally published in 1928. A thrilling record of thirty five years adventures on the trail of the trap line and hunting and guiding big game hunters. The illustrated contents include: Early Days in the Ozark Mountains - Hitting the Trap Line - Big Bend Country - Battling with Coyotes - Mexican Bandits - Hunting in Maine Wilderness - After Black Bear - A Charging Bear - Trapping Bobcats - Deer Hunting in Aroostook - etc. Many of the earliest hunting and shooting books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Foreword
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Half title
• I My Early Days in the Ozark Mountains
• II The Young Trapper Accidentally Runs Onto a Moonshiner Still
• III Hitting the Trap Line
• IV Entered a Cave After an Old Killer
• V Trapping Jack’s Forks and Current River
• VI In the Big Bend Country on the Rio Grande
• VII The Author Battling with a Coyote
• VIII Raided by Mexican Bandits
• IX Hunting in the Maine Wilderness
• X After the Black Bear in Northern Maine
• XI A Charging Bear
• XII That Big Black Thing
• XIII Capturing a Cub
• XIV Bruin Raids a Camp
• XV A Narrow Escape from Death with a Bear
• XVI Trapping Bobcats and Bringing Them in Alive
• XVII Deer Hunting in Aroostook