41 research outputs found
Tex Baker Interview, December 19, 1981
No full textTex Baker talks about his first trapping experiences in the Seeley Lake country, including one of his best years of trapping. He explains how he made his own snow shoes to traverse the mountains and creeks. He talks about his relationship with the game wardens of the area, including Harry Morgan. Baker describes Morgan’s background as an outlaw, who ran with a “wild bunch” throughout the area. Baker describes the process he went through to care for his furs and sell them to companies around Missoula and Swan Valley. He also talks about the differences between when he was trapping for a living and the current state of trapping at the time. Baker explains that the wildlife has been depleted so badly that there is no future for trapping as a profession.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/montanafurtrappers/1007/thumbnail.jp
Tex Baker Interview, May 18, 1981
No full textTex Baker discusses his 70 years of experience trapping and selling furs. He recalls that he began trapping at age six on his father’s homestead in Wyoming and later moved to New Mexico to trap coyote, fox, and lynx. Baker notes that when he wasn’t working his lines, he worked on local ranches breaking horses, or riding in the rodeo circuit. He describes moving to Montana around 1930 and becoming interested in the more heavily regulated beaver industry. Baker talks about Kid Young, one of the better known beaver trappers in the Seeley Lake region, and Harry Morgan and Bill Eckerson, the game wardens at the time. Baker mentions the changing government regulations regarding fur-bearers since he started trapping, and states that one can tell a lot about a person by the care they demonstrate in preparing their furs. He discusses selling furs to F. C. Taylor Fur Company in St. Louis, Sears and Roebuck, and L. M. Goldberg Fur Company [Leo M. Goldberg Fur and Wool House, Inc.] in Helena, Montana.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/montanafurtrappers/1006/thumbnail.jp
Lester Barton and Tex Baker Interview, February 14, 1981
No full textLester Barton discusses his life and career as the game warden for the Montana Department of Fish and Game for 17 years, a prison guard for ten years, and his experience as a fur trapper. He describes working as a game warden in the Butte-Silver Bow area of Montana, including his encounters with men who worked for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Barton also talks about working at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, and the aftermath of the prison riot there in 1959, when Deputy Warden Ted Rothe was shot and killed. He discusses his trapping methods and his use of different traps and snares such as Huckman, Gregerson, and Conibears, which he employed to trap bears, coyotes, foxes, rabbits, beavers, muskrats, and other wildlife.
Audio contains two interviews, one with Lester Barton and a brief conversation with Tex Baker. Baker is also present during Barton’s interview.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/montanafurtrappers/1002/thumbnail.jp
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