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It was described as the most exhaustive book on trapping in America, covering everything from mountain men to modern-day longliners, and including profiles of notable trappers and the history of trapping. One listener mentioned using it as bedtime reading.
I love that thing. I said when I'm going to bed at night, I'll lay there and put my new spectacles on. And I'll just start like... I don't even read it front to back. I just skim through it and read a...
— Episode: Ep. 317: Super Slammin' with Tom Miranda
Episode: Ep. 317: Super Slammin' with Tom Miranda
It was described as the most exhaustive book on trapping in America, covering everything from mountain men to modern-day longliners, and including profiles of notable trappers and the history of trapping. One listener mentioned using it as bedtime reading.
I love that thing. I said when I'm going to bed at night, I'll lay there and put my new spectacles on. And I'll just start like... I don't even read it front to back. I just skim through it and read all kinds of junk. Look for people I figure must be in there and then there they are. Guys I grew up reading and stuff. I don't know. It's a huge book called Master Trappers and its profiles...
It's like profiles on eras. Hudson Bay Company, the mountain man era. But as you progress, it's profiles on just every notable trapper and then not every, but many of the notable trappers, all elements of the business, animal damage control, government stuff interspersed with Tom's evolution, schoolboy trapper, professional trapper, airborne trapper, on into phasing out of that and into the hunting world. I mean, it's a really interesting book, man.