April 12, 2024
Hunter Trader Trapper Magazine - July 1907 Issue, in Original Mailing Sleeve!
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Hunter Trader Trapper Magazine - July, 1907Cover (see photo): "Ben Norvell, a well known Trapper of North Alaska".Description: Early issue! In parts of the original mailing envelope.From online: Two magazines published at the beginning of the 20th century provided reliable, credible trapping information at a time when such knowledge was more typically guarded as a valuable secret. The magazines were called HUNTER-TRADER-TRAPPER and The North American Trapper. Arthur Robert Harding's H-T-T was the first, initially published October 1900. Harding also produced a weekly publication called Camp & Trail, which ran for about four years before being consolidated with H-T-T. And, of course, Harding founded this magazine in 1925. A.R. Harding was born July 17, 1871 and began trapping on the family farm near Kyger, Ohio, at the age of nine. By 1884, he was buying fur from other young trappers in the neighborhood, and when he was 20 years old, he took a job as a fur buyer for L. Frank and Sons of Zanesville, Ohio. By 1897, he was self-employed as a fur buyer and was also publishing a weekly county newspaper called The Gallia Times, located in Gallipolis, Ohio. This publishing experience led directly to H-T-T, which also was first published in Gallipolis. The first issue was 5-1/4 by 9 inches in size, had 24 pages, and a few thousand copies
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