What Sewell Newhouse was to North America trapping equipment in the 1800s, Arthur Robert Harding was to trapper recruitment in the 1900s. A.R. Harding was born in July, 1871 in Gallia county near the Ohio River. Learning to trap at a young age, A.R. began his first entrepreneurial enterprise with buying furs from neighboring school pals. By age twenty, he was a traveling fur buyer for the L. Frank & Sons Hide and Fur Company Zanesville, Ohio. A.R. loved everything about the outdoors especially furs and trapping.
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Many early mountain men and their adventures have been sensationalized in books, movies and television. Pennsylvania born Hugh Glass would be considered one of the more famous. Featured in numerous books, several movies and at least one television serial, Glass and his wild adventures are the makings of legend. The Hugh Glass resume includes capture and escape from the famous New Orleans pirate John Lafitte, as well as escaping capture from the Pawnee tribe (in the area of present day Nebraska). Of course neither event was ever documented and may only be embellished stories.
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