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 Author Name: Dick North
Title: THE MAD TRAPPER OF RAT RIVER: A TRUE STORY OF CANADA'S BIGGEST MANHUNT
Binding: Paperback
Type: BOOK
Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT ( THE LYONS PRESS
ISBN Number: 1592287719 / 9781592287710
Seller ID: 1695100
The epic story of the most incredible chase of the 20th century. B&W photos, map; 6x9 inches, 320 pgs.
''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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
DICK NORTH has worked as a seaman, a fisheries officer, and a newspaper editor in Alaska and Canada's Yukon. He is also the author of Trackdown, Arctic Exodus, and The Lost Patrol. He is currently the curator of the Jack London Exhibit and Interpretation Center in Dawson City, Yukon.
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