This auction is for a February 1931 copy of Hunter Trader Trapper magazine.

Arthur Robert Harding, the founder of today’s FUR-FISH-GAME, would change all of that in 1900 by publishing the first national magazine specifically for trappers and other men who earned a living in the great outdoors. The concept for the magazine arose from his own life experiences. In 1880, at the age of nine, Harding began trapping on the family farm outside of Kyger, Ohio, close to the Ohio River. By the time he was 14, Harding was buying fur from neighboring farm boys and reselling it at a profit. About twice a month, he made his rounds on horseback. He later wrote that most of the pelts were carried in a sack, but the fox skins were tied to the saddle to “show up the horse and trader in good shape.” By the age of 20, Mr. Harding was a salaried fur buyer, traveling by train across Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky for L. Frank & Sons of Zanesville, Ohio. Mr. Harding enjoyed the fur business, but he also had a keen interest in publishing. In 1898, he and a printer friend founded the Gallia Times, a weekly newspaper that served a small southern Ohio town. Using the knowledge he gained from the newspaper, he founded HUNTER-TRADER-TRAPPER magazine two years later.”

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