BOONE COUNTY - Fur trappers from all over the country descended on Columbia Thursday for a weekend convention to exchange trapping information, techniques and supplies. The Missouri Trappers ...

The annual Missouri Trappers 2022 Fur Auctions was held Saturday in Montgomery City, but the market has declined and the event was smaller than usual. About 40 trapper lots and 14 buyers came to the ...

The fur industry has a long history in the state of Missouri. While it looks different these days, it’s still around, and trappers at the annual Missouri fur auction want to make sure they're ...

BARNUM -- With a cluster of rapt young boys looking up at him, Shawn Johnson was talking about the time he got a finger caught in a wolf trap. He held up a couple of traps much smaller than a wolf ...

Trapping is an age-old enterprise. Who really knows when the first trapper came on the scene? Likely it was some dude who needed fur to keep him warm, but couldn’t get quite close enough to that saber ...

Ben Trumblee travels the U.S. selling some highly unusual items. Some of his most popular products include purses made from invasive toads and the cleaned bone of a raccoon penis, which his customers ...

Larry Kline stood knee-deep in a Virginia creek, laying a trap. He lowered the trap's spring-loaded metal frame -- something like a large mousetrap -- into the current. If a river otter swam through, ...