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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

Science rewrites Northern legend, the Mad Trapper

1 posted on 03/06/2009 9:52:53 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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He died after being shot only nine times? What a wussy.

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2 posted on 03/06/2009 9:53:34 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Good stuff.
Stories don't have to be BIG to be interesting.
3 posted on 03/06/2009 10:01:20 AM PST by norton
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The Death of Albert Johnson -- The Mad Trapper of Rat River

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.

5 posted on 03/06/2009 10:08:59 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Nepolean fries the idea powder)
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He was up there to trap and kill Mounties.

He always got his Mountie.


9 posted on 03/06/2009 1:16:41 PM PST by wildbill
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