A biography; 30 years in the making; learn the story behind this amazing man who made his living from the outdoors throughout his life in areas of IA, MN, CA, and MT; his boyhood traplines and his short boxing career; guiding fisherman; how he trapped in northern MN when temperatures dropped to 50 below zero; how he survived the Great Depression by digging roots shelling and pearling, and fur trapping; his years in CA trapping on foot in the coastal mountains, logging, working for the US Forest Service, and marten trapping on skis in the sierras; bounty trapping for wolves, coyotes bobcats, and foxes; learn of his record fur catches; how he was a noted outdoors writer for over 30 years with just an 8th grade education; his successful fishing techniques for catfish, carp, and muskies; his famous line of animal and fish lures; his use of an airplane to prospect trapping areas; how he released skunks from traps, alive, without them spraying and without using immobilization chemicals; his trapping systems and philosophies that influenced today's methods and that have been widely copied and reworded, ever since; his vast knowledge of animal species classification and their habits; a listing of his books and methods and over 100 magazine articles he wrote; learn about a man, himself, from his writings and from those who know him; many direct quotes; with photos.