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    The Adventures of Trapper Jake
    The Adventures of Trapper Jake
    The Adventures of Trapper Jake
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    The Adventures of Trapper Jake

    By John J. Carpenter Jr.

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    The Adventures of Trapper Jake is a story of a man`s life. It details his life beginning in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania, and the adventures he has becoming a mountain man in Montana . It has adventure, action, love, and every emotion a man could feel. It is a metamorphosis of a man's life. Jacob Morrison is an honorable man with a pure heart for God. His adventure includes the life of a friend Jasper Cummings. They share many memorable experiences as they live out the life of mountain men in the mid 1800`s. Their life`s work is trapping, and they also mine and pan for gold. They meet many people and have a lot of different experiences with them. The story will seek to captivate you from the beginning to the end. A friend Pastor Stan Simmons of Faith Chapel in Billings Montana said "I read your book on the way to L. A. today. Quite an adventure. I bet you had a wonderful time writing it. It kept my attention all the way through."

    This is an adventure from the beginning to the end, aimed at audiences from fifth grade to adult. I have found students from fifth grade on up enjoy it, as well as adults like my friend Pastor Stan. If you like to read about adventure this is for you. The story starts in Philadelphia and ends in Montana with many adventures through out the Americas. You learn of loyalty and honor as well as what it means to be self sacrificingal. They protagonists, two men who are trappers, miners, and mountain, men, are tremendous examples of purity and devotion. This is all done by two men of simple means. I think everyone who reads this will leave with a feeling of satisfaction. Their story will touch your heart. That what they just read touched many areas of their heart ,and they leave with a good feeling after finishing it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateSep 12, 2011
    ISBN9781449723217
    The Adventures of Trapper Jake
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    John J. Carpenter Jr.

    John Carpenter moved to Montana in 1973 to attend college. He married his high school sweetheart, Meg Moorhouse, in 1974 and has lived in Billings, Montana, with her and his four grown children and five grandchildren .Carpenter always felt he was born 150 years too late, as he has always had a love for the outdoors and especially the Beartooth mountains.

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      The Adventures of Trapper Jake - John J. Carpenter Jr.

      Contents

      Foreword

      Dedication and Acknowledgement

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      Chapter Twelve

      Foreword

      I read your book on the way to L.A. today. Quite an adventure. I bet you had a wonderful time writing it. It kept my attention all the way through. John Carpenter is a dear man that I respect highly. He is an adventurer! His life is filled with courage. His son, Brian, has told me a multitude of stories about John that are hilarious and reflects his zeal for life. He once said to me that Brian should have had me as a dad. I gave him an immediate response: Brian could not have had a better dad – you are the perfect dad for him.

      John’s book reflects his courage and zeal for Jesus. Enjoy!

      Stan Simmons

      Lead Pastor

      Faith Chapel, Billings, Montana

      Dedication and Acknowledgement

      I want to thank my wife Meg, for being the kind, loving person she is, and for being patient with me while I wrote this book. Thanks for your support during this time. I also want to thank my son Nathan for asking me to write down the stories I told him and his brother’s as bed time stories. I thank my daughter Emily and her friend Brooke for helping me with my dinosaur computer skills. To my friend Gayle Nurre, you would not let me do this without doing it right. Thanks for the time you took to help me get this finished. Lastly I want to thank the students at Lockwood Middle School for encouraging me to finish this project when I was a substitute teacher in their school. The Lord led me as I wrote this, and He deserves any credit this book gets!

      Chapter One

      The Making of a Mountain Man

      It was a cold quiet February night when Jacob Morrison left his Philadelphia home to go and check the street lights on the south side of the city. Morrison worked for the City of Philadelphia as a maintenance man. One of his responsibilities was to periodically check the lights on the streets to make sure they were operating correctly. He had a wagon driven by a massive team of horses. The wagon had all the essential tools he needed to repair any of the lights that he found not working.

      Jake was driving down a dark street when in the distance he could see some men attacking another man. The older man was on the ground cradled up like a baby screaming for help. He yelled at the group of thugs kicking him, I will never tell you where it is. Jake stopped the wagon and jumped down. He ran to where the men were. While he was running he found a short piece of pipe in the street. He never experienced any fear even though he was out numbered three to one. This might be because Jake was an enormous man. He was over six feet tall. He was built like someone who swung a sledge hammer all day. His hair was golden blonde and he had a huge beard. His skin was weathered from years of working in the elements. His eyes were like two blue fountains. His massive size made him a force to be reckoned with.

      It was quite a shock to the largest of the attackers as he felt the pain of the heavy iron pipe crack across the side of his head. The man went down like a fallen oak tree. Immediately his friend’s attention went from beating the stranger to Jake. Jake swung the pipe like a lumberjack, taking down a huge Redwood tree. There were now two men passed out in the street. The third attacker decided to leave his fate to his feet and ran into the darkness.

      The street was finally quiet. Jake quickly moved to the injured man who had just received a terrible beating. I am going to take you to a doctor, Jake said. The man thanked Jake for his help, and Jake carried the man a few blocks to the doctor’s office. Jake knew Mac Morone for many years. There were many times that it was Jake needing his body stitched up or bones mended. Jake wasn’t always the kind maintenance man he was now. There was a time in his life when Jake spent most of his time in the bars on South Street. While there he was usually drunk and fighting whoever opposed him. He felt Mac was the best doctor in the city, and he knew the stranger would be in good hands. Mac Morone was tall, and handsome. He looked a lot like President Lincoln. His hair was black, and he had a black beard like the Presidents. He always had on his white doctor’s coat. Jake left the man with the doctor, and he told him he would be back in the morning to check on him.

      The winter air was cold and humid as Jake made his rounds to turn off the gas street lights. His hands were numb even through his thick gloves. The sun had just come up and the team of Belgian draft horses had steam coming out of their nostrils. They looked like two steam locomotives coming down the rail road tracks. Jake drove the wagon to each light pole to start his day. The lights were gas lights. Jake would go to each light and turn them off by hand. He made his first visit to the street where the fight was. There was some blood where the two men had been, but besides that there was no evidence of the men having been there. They must have had some help getting out of there. Jake figured the man who ran away came back to help his friends. It was ten in the morning when Jake stopped in at Doctor Morone’s office to check on the man he helped. He will be just fine, said Doctor Morone as he put his hand on Jakes shoulder. That is a relief, exclaimed Jake, because the man had received a terrible beating.

      Doctor Morone left the two men alone. The injured man said, Hi I am Dan Colson, and I live in Montana. I am in the city to sell the furs that I had trapped in a western territory called Montana. Jake helped Dan load his hidden treasure in a wagon. The bundles of furs were very heavy: it took both men to get them on the wagon. Dan was a burly man. His hair was brown and he had a block jaw. He looked like a clean shaved mountain man. Jake was intrigued by the many different animal furs that Dan had. Dan planned on selling them to the fur buyers on Market Street, who would use the furs to make coats, gloves, and many other types of clothing apparel.

      The smell of the tanning vats filled with chemicals and furs, made Jake vomit. He had never been in this part of Philadelphia. There were warehouse buildings full of pallets of different types of animal furs. The streets and the area were very dirty. This was not a place a person would go unless they had business there. After Dan sold his furs, he told Jake he also came to Philadelphia to see if he might secure funds to buy a steamboat. He wanted to start a shipping business on the western rivers.

      The Montana Territory was really beginning to expand. The Civil War was over, and many soldiers were looking for new areas to farm and ranch. Dan envisioned a riverboat that could take pioneers to their new homes. The boat could also be used to take crops, livestock, and forest products from places like Montana to the large cities back east.

      Dan waited around for what seemed to be weeks to meet with the president of a large Philadelphia bank. Charles Wannamaker was a large man and his size only made him a more formidable man, when doing business with him. Mister Wannamaker saw immense potential with Dan’s proposal

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