Newhouse Bear Traps

ALFERD WILLIAMS

Publication: Alferd Williams, 1985, Salem, Oregon

First Edition. Cloth. 44pp. 14 full-page illustrations and a few drawings. A detailed description of the following sizes of bear traps presented here: No. 5, No. 6, No. 15, No. 25, No. 35, No. 50, and No. 150. "The steel trap not only changed the way most pioneers lived but added a great deal of comfort to the way they lived such as more food, better clothing and safer environment in which to live." Newhouse traps started in the early trapping days of 1823, when the mountain men and the fur trade led the way in the early West. Fine copy.