Olaf Hanson's colourful, encouraging, and at times tragic story teaches us valuable lessons still today, nearly 30 years after A.L. Karras assembled this work from Hanson's own weathered notes and vibrant memory. -- Anthony G. Gulig, Department of History, University of Wisconsin

From 1919 to 1970, Olaf Hanson was a trapper, trader, prospector, gameguardian, fisherman, and road blasting expert in northeasternSaskatchewan. He told his life story to popular Saskatchewan author A.L. Karras, who wrote this memoir in the 1980s.