Books

[traplines]

Starbuck Valley Winter by Roderick L. Haig-Brown. Although it's fiction it does get you out on to the trap line. Check it out.

[Matt (admin)]

Thanks, Russ. Another recommendation I think I got from Scott was North to Cree Lake by Alan L. Karras. That's another true story of two brothers who headed into the wilds of Saskatchewan early this century to trap. He has another book too, called Face the North Wind.

[drycreek1]

Hey guys, I looked up North to Cree Lake by Alan L. Karras on Google and It looks like it would be a really good book. It's not to expensive either. I'm considering ordering it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Julian

[drycreek1]

Hello folks, just finished up looking all the way through my 1945 edition 10th printing of TRAP-LINES NORTH with the hand written notes in front written by Lynn Baldwin . No more hand written notes were found in the book. I speed read the book as I looked and enjoyed it once again. Julian

[BRIAN]

Maybe if you go slower, you'll see a cryptic message in the margin

Really though, the way that book came from no-where, it seemed of at least a possibility there would o been more notes in it.

Its on of the relics, thats for sure, with linkage in it. It wasnt just another old library book. You have a TLN Gem there.

caught a 11 pound channel last weekend on one 1, ONE! kernel ofcorn, go figure?

[traplines]

Just finished reading Face The North Wind by A.L. Karras. Another excellent book. Thanks Matt. The trappers from back in the old days are wayyyy tougher than we are today.

[Matt (admin)]

Russ, Glad you enjoyed it. I ordered it myself and am anxiously awaiting it's arrival. I liked North to Cree Lake a lot too.

[BRIAN]

Face The North Wind was good!

[Matt (admin)]

I got my copy a week or so ago. Hope to start reading it this weekend!

[Matt (admin)]

Brian, you mentioned in the EBay/book post that renewed interest in the book might make someone adapt it into a movie:

May 31, 2007, 10:29am, traplines wrote:There's 14 TLN books for sale at abebooks.com in various conditons starting at $62.50 right through to $ 150.00. Isn't it too bad all the schools and library's in Canada and the US wouldn't bring back this book.

If they did and gave it a little fanfare, It would of been adapdted into a movie

Funny--I had just been thinking that seems like a natural for a movie adaptation. It seems like it would have fit right in next to films like My Side of the Mountain.

I've been surprised Gary Paulsen's "Hatchet" series hasn't been adapted too. That's a great set of "boys" books that anyone would enjoy too. If he's not the writer Meader was, he's as good a storyteller. He was an old trapper and dog sledder too.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Paulsen

[scott]

Went up to Manitoulin Island this summer with my son Tyler and made an over night stop in Tobermory and found a excellent book at a small book shack up by the the Princess Hotel called Timeslip Secondhand Books - lots of cool books and one that jumped out at me was Northern Trader by H.S.M.Kemp.
This story takes place around Prince Albert Saskatchewan and points north and talks of York Boats, the fur trade , running a trading post,having two separate books, a store book for accounts and a "hip pocket book" for trading with trappers and Indians in hopes the two books don't show a lot of red ink!
This fellow marries and has sons while he was there and very reluctantly leaves when he finds that his boys are speaking a mixture of cree and english and a southern points out that it would be better for the boys to go south for schooling and come back later.
Very readable account of Northern life and the fur trade from someone who loved every minute of it and the people he served who grew to love everything he did for them.
Not to be missed and good cheap copies with dust jackets can be found on one of my favourite web sites abebooks.com
Always love stumbling across great books like this one, thanks Scott

[jburger57]

Sounds like a good book, will have to look for it. Thanks for the suggestion.

[jburger57]

Have managed to buy both books by Karras, and am on last 20 pages of the first one. REALLY easy to read, and interesting day-to-day details that make it interesting. Looking forward to reading the second one asap..

[terry]

I just wanted to add that Face the North Wind and North to Cree Lake are two of my favorite books. Both of them are factual books about the lives of trappers in the wilds of northern Saskatchewan around the same time as TLN.

[terry]

Another great book about the lives of trappers is True North. Written by Elliot Merrick in the 1930's Mr. Merrick spent a season on the trapline in Labrador. Excellent read as it captures the rugged life and hardiness of the people. An absolute masterpiece! All fans of TLN would surely like this book.