John Tanner: Growing up a Captive, Part XVI
John Tanners family was still suffering from hunger, and it compelled them to move and after they had eaten their portion of a bear they had killed they started on snowshoes for the Red River hoping either to meet some Indians or to find game on the way. John had become acquainted with the method of taking rabbits by snare and when they arrived at their first camp site he ran forward on the route and placed several snares intending to check them as they moved on. In the times
