Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

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to the lodge, and by watching succeed in catching
the animal on some of its travels between the water
and the land. This is seldom resorted to, only when
urged by famine to take them for food.
Sometimes, several members of a beaver family are
trapped in succession, when the survivors become
very shy, and can't be "brought to medicine," to use
a trapper's phrase. Then the trapper gives up the
use of bait, and carefully conceals his traps in the
paths of the community.
The beaver now approaches these carefully, and
sometimes springs them with a stick; other times,
the trap is turned bottom upwards, by the same
means; sometimes he drags them away and conceals
them in the mud. When this occurs, the trapper
gives up the strife of ingenuity, shoulders his traps
and leaves, thus confessing that he is not "up to
beaver."
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