Scheide, the Ks Fur Harvesters was incorporated in 72, and Craigs, then wife, came down to help put it together. I didn't know about it or I'd have been there. I know that they formed the Ne Fur Harvesters before that, and it could of been the spring before, or the fall of 71. I was at the second meeting which was held at Keats Ks, just west of Manhattan that next spring, at Major Boddickers house and the Keats school house across the street. Just a little first hand trivia for you!

Thanks for the info Lee! I know I have pictures of him doing a couple water demos. He used to show some of his 8mm movies at the conventions too!

Okay, another question. His "updates" to books like his several to "Hoofbeats of a Wolfer" are they the entire book with additions or are they just additional material?

Back east I used railroad cinders as trap covering if I was near the old railroad bed. Worked just fine, can't remember it was more or less freeze resistant than dry dirt

They are added material.

Not taking anything away from O'Gorman's abilities and accomplishment because he is one of the great ones. But one of his greatest abilities is his marketing skills.

I was greatly influenced by his book High Rolling Coon Trapping. It was more motivation for me than methods, although there were some good nuggets of information in there. Much of the farmland style of snaring that I developed in the early 1980's is still being used today. He takes credit for some of that stuff I was doing prior to the dates he mentioned. I just didn't start writing about it until the early 1990's. I was too busy making a living trapping to promote myself until I was faced with the terrifying prospect of getting a real job, then I started writing and promoting. I didn't do my first instructions until about 1992 when I was no longer dependent on trapping as my sole source of income. In the 1970s and 1980's there were a lot of people developing techniques that just weren't talking about it.

It's good that he gives credit to people like Ron Hanson who never got the credit he deserved for some of his innovations. Craig is an innovator, a hard worker and a tireless promoter and I wouldn't take anything away from his lifetime of accomplishments, but just like me, he put things in the public eye that he wasn't solely responsible for. He has a loyal following for good reason, he has been out there doing it for many many years. My hat's off to him.

+1

his catalog is a riot. Truly both an innovator and a tireless self promoter.

It was an honor to be his student and customer, he was a good teacher for me