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• The Boy Trapper (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1878), by Harry Castlemon (illustrated HTML at hiwaay.net)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Wild Turkey in Illinois (Springfield, IL: Illinois Dept. of Conservation, 1974), by John C. Calhoun and Jared K. Garver (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Hapgood Family, Descendents of Shadrach, 1656-1898 (new edition, with supplement; Boston: The compiler, 1898), by Warren Hapgood
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Trapper's Guide: A Manual of Instructions for Capturing All Kinds of Fur-Bearing Animals, and Curing Their Skins; With Observations on the Fur-Trade, Hints on Life in the Woods, and Narratives of Trapping and Hunting Excursions (second edition; Wallingford, CT: Oneida Community, 1867), by S. Newhouse, ed. by John Humphrey Noyes and T. L. Pitt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Muskrats and Marsh Management (Harrisburg: Stackpole; Washington: Wildlife Management Institute, c1961), by Paul L. Errington (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Historical Review of the Fish and Wildlife Resources of the San Francisco Bay Area (Water Projects Branch Report #1; Sacramento: Resources Agency of California, Dept. of Fish and Game, 1962), by John E. Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Trapper's Son, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Connie Morgan in the Fur Country (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921), by James B. Hendryx (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Bats and Bat Exclusion (2004), by Illinois Department of Public Health (page images at HathiTrust)

• Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudson's Bay Company, by Hudson's Bay Company (Gutenberg text)

• The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay: A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1914), by Agnes C. Laut
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Peter Pond, Fur Trader and Adventurer (1930), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Voyageur (reprint edition; St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1955), by Grace Lee Nute, illust. by Carl W. Bertsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the North-West Part of America (London: Printed for J. Robinson, 1744), by Arthur Dobbs, contrib. by Christopher Middleton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Journal of the Yukon, 1847-48 (Publications of the Canadian Archives #4; Ottawa: Government printing bureau, 1910), by Alexander Hunter Murray, ed. by Lawrence J. Burpee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages From Montreal on the River St. Laurence, Through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans, in the Years 1789 and 1793 : With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the Fur Trade of That Country (London, 1801), by Alexander Mackenzie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader: Describing the Manners and Customs of the North American Indians (London: Printed for the author, 1791), by J. Long
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• John Long's Voyages and Travels in the Years 1768-1788 (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co., 1922), by J. Long, ed. by Milo Milton Quaife (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gentlemen of the North (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Hugh Pendexter, illust. by Ralph P. Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Young Voyageurs, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Voyageur (reprint edition; St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1955), by Grace Lee Nute, illust. by Carl W. Bertsch (page images at HathiTrust)

• Heralds of Empire: Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1902), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Lords of the North (Toronto: W. Briggs, ca. 1900), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Heralds of Empire: Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1902), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Lords of the North (Toronto: W. Briggs, ca. 1900), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Free Trapper's Pass: or, The Gold-Seeker's Daughter (Jackson's Novels #2), by William R. Eyster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Away in the Wilderness, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• The Cheyenne in Plains Indian Trade Relations, 1795-1840 (Monographs of the American Ethnological Society #19; New York: J. J. Augustin, ca. 1951), by Joseph Jablow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• St. Louis as a Fortified Town: A Narrative and Critical Essay of the Period of Struggle for the Fur Trade of the Mississippi Valley and its Influence Upon St. Louis (St. Louis: Press of R. F. Miller, 1941), by James B. Musick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journal of a Fur-Trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri, 1812-1813, by John C. Luttig (HTML at xmission.com)

• Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark, 1834-1839: Descriptive of Life on the Upper Missouri; of a Fur Trader's Experiences Among the Mandans, Gros Ventres and Their Neighbors; of the Ravages of the Small-Pox Epidemic of 1837 (Pierre, SD: Pub. under the auspices of L. K. Fox, Dept. of History, State of South Dakota, 1932), by Francis A. Chardon, ed. by Annie Heloise Abel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark, 1834-1839: Descriptive of Life on the Upper Missouri; of a Fur Trader's Experiences Among the Mandans, Gros Ventres and Their Neighbors; of the Ravages of the Small-Pox Epidemic of 1837 (Pierre, SD: Pub. under the auspices of L. K. Fox, Dept. of History, State of South Dakota, 1932), by Francis A. Chardon, ed. by Annie Heloise Abel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Caesars of the Wilderness: Médard Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers and Pierre Esprit Radisson, 1618-1710 (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., c1943), by Grace Lee Nute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plan for Promoting the Fur Trade, and Securing It to This Country, By Uniting the Operations of the East-India and Hudson's-Bay Companys (1789), by Alexander Dalrymple (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin: A Study of the Trading Post as an Institution (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1891), by Frederick Jackson Turner
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Effects of White Contact upon Blackfoot Culture, With Special Reference to the Rôle of the Fur Trade (Monographs of the American Ethnological Society #6; New York: J. J. Augustin, c1942), by Oscar Lewis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Five Fur Traders of the Northwest: Being the Narrative of Peter Pond and the Diaries of John Macdonell. Archibald N. McLeod, Hugh Faries, and Thomas Connor (Minneapolis: Pub. for the Minnesota Society of the Colonial Dames of America. The University of Minnesota Press, 1933), ed. by Charles M. Gates, contrib. by Peter Pond, John Macdonell, Archibald Norman McLeod, Hugh Faries, Thomas Connor, and Grace Lee Nute (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Unfinished Autobiography of Henry Hastings Sibley, by Henry Hastings Sibley (page images at loc.gov)

• Selected Journals, by John Work (HTML at xmission.com)
• The Fur Hunters of the Far West: A Narrative of Adventures in the Oregon and Rocky Mountains (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1855), by Alexander Ross
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Effects of White Contact upon Blackfoot Culture, With Special Reference to the Rôle of the Fur Trade (Monographs of the American Ethnological Society #6; New York: J. J. Augustin, c1942), by Oscar Lewis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Journal of a Trapper, by Osborne Russell (HTML at xmission.com)

• Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814: or, The First American Settlement on the Pacific (New York: Redfield, 1854), by Gabriel Franchère, trans. by J. V. Huntington
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Relation d'un Voyage à la Côte du Nord-Ouest de l'Amérique Septentrionale, dans les Années 1810, 11, 12, 13, et 14 (in French; Montréal: Impr. de C. B. Pasteur, 1820), by Gabriel Franchère (page images at HathiTrust)
• Astoria: or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains, by Washington Irving
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at xmission.com
• Astoria: or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v8; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)

• The History of Warner's Ranch and its Environs (Los Angeles: Privately printed, 1927), by Joseph J. Hill, contrib. by Herbert Eugene Bolton, illust. by Loren Roberta Barton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard, Fur Trader and Trapper, 1831-1836, by Zenas Leonard (HTML at xmission.com)

• Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans, by Thomas James (HTML at xmission.com)

• Snares, Deadfalls, and Other Traps of the Northern Algonquians and Northern Athapaskans (Catholic University of America Anthropological Series #5; 1938), by John M. Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)

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