This book includes comprehensive advice on camp shelters, log huts, bark shanties, wooden beds and bedding, boat and canoe building, and valuable suggestions on food for trappers, etc. . with extensive chapters on the art of the trapper, containing all the "tips" and valuable recipes of the profession; full guidelines for the use of the steel trap and for the construction of traps of all types detailed instructions for the capture of all furbearing animals; valuable recipes for healing and tanning of fur skins, etc.