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Bezig met laden... The Mad Trapper of Rat River: A True Story of Canada's Biggest Manhuntdoor Dick North
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The Mad Trapper is the true story of a mysterious and violent man who eluded the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the harsh wilderness of the Yukon and Northwest Territories during the winter of 1931-1932. It’s a mystery thriller with an historical account, making it an engaging read for those interested in true crime and Canadian history. While it may not provide a definitive answer to the mystery, it offers an immersive and suspenseful narrative with appeal to readers interested in the challenges of extreme survival and obviously true crime. It’s curious. ( ) This is a classic account of one of Canada's most fascinating unsolved mysteries that occurred in 1931. A lone trapper shot at RCMP officers who had come to his cabin to check a trapline complaint. The trapper shot and wounded one officer and fled into the wilderness of the frozen north. By the time the chase was over, he had killed one man and wounded two others before he was finally shot on the Eagle River near the Arctic Circle. To this day the identity of the man has been in question. Was he Albert Johnson or Arthur Nelson or who? A very interesting true story of the manhunt across more than 150 miles along the Arctic Circle during which temperatures averaged -40 degrees. Author followed this book up with a further book with the title Trackdown - the search for the identity of the Mad Trapper. http://pixxiefishbooks.blogspot.com/2... I was sent this as a Christmas/birthday present from my brother and sister-in-law in Vancouver. They'd picked it up (assumedly) on their northern travels to Yukon that they'd done earlier in 2005. To be honest, I was a bit skeptical at first, but after the first few pages, I was hooked. No one was sure where the mad trapper came from. He'd shown up in a town in the Northwest Territories in 1931 or so, and most knew him as one Albert Johnson. But they didn't know where he came from, and he wasn't fond of making friends. After a run-in with the RCMP which left one member dead, Johnson led the police on a 5-week chase through the backwoods and snow of the NWT and the Yukon. The author, Dick North, is a northern journalist who has had a lifelong interest in the mystery of Albert Johnson. He details the manhunt as if he were there, and then he proceeds on a long exploration of who Johnson was. He goes through many possible suspects, and details why each one does or does not match up with what was known about Johnson. It ought to be boring, it ought to be tedious, but it is not. It is quite a remarkable story, and I recommend it to all you Canadiana junkies out there. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"The Arctic trails do indeed have their secret tales, and one of the best is that of The Mad Trapper of Rat River, equal to the legends of Bonnie and Clyde or John Dillinger. Now author Dick North (of course) may have solved the mystery of the Mad Trapper's true identity, thereby enhancing the saga."--Thomas McIntyre, author of Seasons & Days: A Hunting Life "A courageous and unrelenting posse on the trail of a furious and desperate wilderness outlaw . . . Lean and bloody, meticulously researched, The Mad Trapper of Rat River is a dark and haunting story of human endurance, adventure, and will that speeds along like the best fiction."--Bob Butz, author of Beast of Never, Cat of God They called it "The Arctic Circle War." It was a forty-eight-day manhunt across the harshest terrain in the world, the likes of which we will never see again. The quarry, Albert Johnson, was a loner working a string of traps in the far reaches of Canada's Northwest Territories, where winter temperatures average forty degrees below zero. The chase began when two Mounties came to ask Johnson about allegations that he had interfered with a neighbor's trap. No questions were asked. Johnson discharged the first shot through a hole in the wall of his log cabin. When the Mounties returned with reinforcements, Johnson was gone, and The Arctic Circle War had begun. On Johnson's heels were a corps of Mounties and an irregular posse on dogsled. Johnson, on snowshoes, seemed superhuman in his ability to evade capture. The chase stretched for hundreds of miles and, during a blizzard, crossed the Richardson Mountains, the northernmost extension of the Rockies. It culminated in the historic shootout at Eagle River. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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