Posted on 03/06/2009 9:52:52 AM PST by SunkenCiv
A soon to be released documentary will prove Canadians hoping they inherited some rebel blood from the infamous Mad Trapper dead wrong. Airing in May, the Hunt for the Mad Trapper will prove the outlaw, otherwise known as Albert Johnson, is either American or Scandinavian, not Canadian as originally thought... "The oral histories and written history all fits," she said. "It tells us that people who spoke with him, when he did speak, said he had a Scandinavian accent. Others said he was Johnny Johnson from the Midwest U.S. It was interesting the science matched what information was there." Albert Johnson shot and killed an RCMP officer in 1932 and led the Mounties on a six week chase through the Arctic before he was finally shot dead. RCMP hired Wop May, a First World War aviator and one of the first bush pilots in the North to track Johnson. May found Johnson's trail along Eagle River and the RCMP were able to intercept him. Johnson was shot nine times before he died. A book written by Dick North called "Trackdown" identified Johnson not as Albert, but as John Johnson, a fugitive from the U.S. Midwest while other theories pointed to Sigvald from Volda, a Norwegian man. No one knows for certain who he was or why he was in the North.
(Excerpt) Read more at nnsl.com ...
Dr. Lynne Bell examining the bones of the Mad Trapper after the body was exhumed from the cemetery in Aklavik. Bell performed isotope testing on the skeletal structure to determine the bones were of a man not from Canada, but from either the midwest United States or Scandinavia. - photo courtesy of Carrie Gour
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I picked this up on holiday in Alberta 20 yrs ago. It's a fun vacation read.
There was a movie made very roughly based on this with Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson.
Death Hunt. I really enjoyed the movie. The guns used were authentic for the time.
Loved his cabin and the young Mountie with his “girlfriend”
:-)
Marvin’s “girlfriend” was better.
Thanks for the ping, Civ.
He was up there to trap and kill Mounties.
He always got his Mountie.
Maple leaves you to know the facts about it. ;’)
Oak-kay!
;-)
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