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Pete ""The Trapper"" Provost

Dickinson County Library

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Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3

Photograph of Pete ""The Trapper"" Provost, born in a log cabin on the Michigamme River on April 17, 1883. At the age of eleven he began his first career working as a river log driver. As logging began to decline he began a second career as a trapper. He often hung the carcasses of the animals he trapped on his automobile or truck and drove around town to display his expertise.