Kliatt, July 1st, 2004
WIEBE, Rudy. The mad trapper. Red Deer Press. 1860. illus, map. c1980, 0-88995-268-X. $9.95. SA The vast and lonely frontier of northern Canada and Alaska has always seemed to justify all kinds of strange and unusual tales. Certainly the far northern wilder ness is an eldritch land, full of color and violence, and its very remoteness and harshness sometimes bring out the in, human as well as the superhuman in its denizens. One of the Yukon's enduring tales is the real-life saga of the Mad Trapper of Rat River, whose name might or might not have been Albert Johnson. Much of the story has alre...
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