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With the pitiful state of media currently, well made Docs are getting harder and harder to find, but occasionally you find one worth a damn.<\/p>\n
I recently found one on Amazon Prime from 2013 titled “Trapper Jake”<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Here is a snippet from the description:<\/p>\n “Trapper Jake tells the true life story about Jake Korell a German born Russian immigrant American trapper. A cinematographic work of art, Trapper Jake depicts a way of life that may be gone forever but which holds many life lessons in the struggle for survival that are still relevant today.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Jacob “Trapper Jake” Korrel<\/a><\/strong><\/em> passed away March 6, 2013 in Riverton, Wyoming. He was one month shy of his 99th Birthday.<\/p>\n Keep in mind this Doc was filmed in 2012 when Jake was a young and spry 98 years old!<\/p>\n The reason I wanted to share this documentary is twofold:<\/p>\n With the future of American society circling around the toilet as we speak, learning and promoting a prepper\/ subsistence lifestyle, specifically the hunting and fishing skill-set<\/em>, is integral to our survival in my humble opinion.<\/p>\n We cannot forget that for hundreds of years in America fur trapping was an integral part of not only every day survival for a lot of people, but also modern commerce in America.<\/p>\n I have always had a love for Old West history, particularly that of the Mountain Men of the early 19th century.<\/p>\n I highly recommend the book Fur, Fortune and Empire: The Epic History of Fur Trade in America<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Eric Jay Dolin for historical context.<\/p>\n Growing up in Central Texas, I trapped fur with my dad most all of my childhood.<\/p>\n Of course back then (late 70’s, early 80’s) fur prices were excellent and it was worth a man’s time to do it. In fact, my dad financed several family ski trips to Colorado with fur trapping money!<\/p>\n Where we lived, we mostly trapped coon and ringtail.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 While calling up Fox, Bobcat and Yotes\u00a0 (Coyotes).<\/p>\n\n