Knutson and Nels and Hans Neteon, had
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The round trip took me over a week on
horseback, camping in the open each night,
except while at the trappers’ cabin. These
three trappers had a good log cabin for their
headquarters and on their lines they had
small shelters made of logs and boughs, as
their lines were too long to make the return
trip over them in a day. They led a rough,
hardy life, but were used to it, and trapping

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was their business. I have recently heard
that Knutson died at Dawson Creek at the
age of seventy-five and Hans Neilson was
killed on his trap line by the accidental dis-
charge of a rifle when it fell from his pack
as he stooped to attend to one of his traps.
While returning on this trip with Knutson
we camped one night by the South Pine

River, where we caught some fine grayling.
Between catching and eating the fish the
time went by and it was dark when we made
camp, and, as it was a fine starlit night we
just spread our tent over the blankets, in-
stead of erecting it. In the morning I felt
a great weight pressing on me and looking
out from under the canvas saw we were

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