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Title: Black Beaver
The Trapper

Author: James Campbell Lewis
George Edward Lewis

Release Date: August 14, 2008 [EBook #26615]

Language: English

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BLACK BEAVER
THE TRAPPER

The Only Book Ever
Written by a Trapper

TWENTY-TWO YEARS WITH
BLACK BEAVER

LEWIS AND CLARK
A HUNDRED YEARS LATER

_FROM THE AMAZON_
_TO THE MACKENZIE RIVERS_

COPYRIGHTED BY GEO. EDWARD LEWIS.

YEAR 1911.

[Illustration: "THE FOUNDERS OF THE FIRST ARCTIC ALASKAN EDUCATIONAL
EXHIBITION."]

[Illustration: BLACK BEAVER AS ARCTIC JIM AT CAMP NEAR MT. McKINLEY]

THE AUTHOR'S EXCUSE.

I am both sorry and glad to inform my readers--that I can neither read
nor write.

It would seem absurd for a blind man to study the stars, Or for a deaf
man to study music; so it might seem to you absurd for a man who cannot
write to write a book. But I have an excuse for writing these events.
The President of Mexico; and the Governor of Alaska together with
several hundreds between, equally as popular have urged me to write my
history. I am sorry I cannot write this with my own fingers but I have a
substitute in my old back-woods chum--The Kidd. Who by the way--neither
writes very flourishing, because he like myself has done the most of his
writing with his six-shooter; because you know this a more expressive
way of talking and a more impressive way of writing. I have a brother
who is a real educated gentleman, he tried to dissuade me from
publishing my history because I think he is afraid he will be outshone
by literary merit. I have no ambition to outshine him, nor William
Shake