Kreps, E. Science of Trapping : Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, their Nature, Habits and Distribution, with Practical Methods for their Capture. Columbus, Ohio: A. R. Harding, Publisher, 1944. Revised Edition. [12165]
Brown cloth with illustration & title in black, binding with light edgewear, 7 x 5 inches, tight. Faint name in pencil on the front cover. 227, xv, clean pages; 4 pp. publisher's adverts at end. Good. Hardcover.
First published in 1909, this resource is full of practical advice on how to trap many different wild animals. "These modes of trapping the furbearing animals have for the most part been learned from actual experience in various parts of the country, but I also give the methods of other successful trappers, knowing them to be as good as my own. I am personally acquainted with some of the most expert trappers in North America and have also followed the Indians over their trap lines and in this way have learned many things which to the white man are not generally known."
Elmer Harry Kreps (1880-1957), b. Union Co., Pennsylvania; d. Madison Co., New York. Kreps was an avid outdoorsman and wrote three books on outdoor subjects. He worked as an illustrator and commercial artist for several periodicals, and illustrated his own books. Kreps was for many years a trapper in Canada.
