Tom watched them with much satisfaction, and gave vent to several chuckles of delight when he found that Nance was a match for the trapper.
"If Any Man Sin"
H. A. Cody
Since then he has held a variety of jobs ranging all the way from trapper to factory superintendent, and has been writing professionally for twenty years.
"We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run"
James Arthur Kjelgaard
In his earliest years, to be sure, when the Mississippi seemed a river of the remote western border, when nobody, not even the hardiest trapper, had penetrated the boundless and treeless plains that stretch to the foot-hills of the Rockies, and when the boldest thinkers had not dared to suppose that we could ever hold together as a people, when once scattered over so wide a territory, he had stated in a public speech that he considered the mountains to be our natural frontier line to the west, and the barrier beyond which we ought not to pass, and had expressed his trust that on the Pacific coast there would grow up a kindred and friendly Republic.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt