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Trapper Nelson’s:Trapper Nelson’s
Size:Medium
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Indian Back Pack:Indian Back Pack
Frame Material:Wood
Country/Region of Manufacture:United States
Sport/Activity:Backpacking
Vintage:Yes
Chas. Trager Trapper Nelson’s Indian Pack Board – Wood Framed Backpack – Vintage Classic wood framed Chas. Trager Trapper Nelson’s Indian Pack Board made in Seattle Washington… Good vintage condition… with great patina to the wood and metal reinforcements… Canvas with expected natural use wear… a few words etched into the cloth (Love is one – feels like hippies in the 60’s to me!)… One leather strap is broken… Vintage – for sure – I’m thinking this example could date to the 30’s – 40’s or 50’s…. Condition Overall Good / Very Good vintage condition… Great patina / look for display in your cabin or lodge… Please see the photos… A rescue from an estate in far Northern Michigan… 082024 Background from the web If you are a mountaineer, Boy Scout, forest ranger, prospector–if you occasionally hike into off-the-road areas on hunting, fishing or adventure trips–chances are that you are familiar with the words “Trapper Nelson.” Yet, few persons are aware that this copyrighted name of a pack board whose fame has encircled the world is a product of the Pacific Northwest. Before the 1920s the usual pack was a limp canvas sack equipped with shoulder straps. Only careful packing prevented the contents from digging into the hiker’s back. The weight of the pack sagged down on the hips. The heavier the load, the more the carrier bent forward. Lloyd F. Nelson is the man who developed and patented the rigid type of pack board which carries his surname. To him belongs the credit of eliminating discomfort, and adding pleasure, to backpacking. The pack board designed by Nelson has a sturdy wood frame which distributes the weight and supports the bulk of the load on the shoulders. A canvas jacket cushions and ventilates the back. A “tailor-made” canvas bag, which can be attached or removed in a jiffy, further facilitates the art of packing. While the simplicity and comfort of the design are apparent today, the basic idea might never have come to realization if Nelson had not made a trip to Alaska in the spring of 1920. Details of Nelson’s enterprise fall into three categories–inspiration, development and marketing. “I was working for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton and was sent to Wood Island, near Kodiak, Alaska, to check shortages on a construction job,” Nelson said. “When my work was finished, I asked for and received a short leave without pay, and joined the throngs of miners, fishermen and other foot-loose Alaskans who were staking claims on newly opened oil-reserve land.” “While assembling an outfit to enable me to cross a mountain range on foot,” Nelson said. “an Indian agreed to lend me his crude Indian pack board made of sealskins stretched over willow sticks, a style used by generations of his ancestors.” “I made the trip and staked my claim, but afterwards lay awake nights recalling the back-breaking ordeal and wondering if it would be possible to evolve a really comfortable backpacking device.” “While waiting on Wood Island for the ship that came once a month, I put together my prototype of a scientific pack-board frame, and thus began a project which kept me ‘burning midnight oil’ for the next nine years!” Back at his home in Bremerton, Washington, Nelson set aside a part of his basement for a workshop. His idea of a frame and carrying sack was fairly well defined. “I made a trip to Seattle and purchased a power sewing machine and a bolt of canvas, thread, grommet, dies, cord, buckles and a side of leather and a cutter,” he related. “Next, I asked a young man, J.D. (Dorm) Braman, then working at the Braman Mill in Bremerton to turn out material enough to make a dozen pack-board frames according to my instructions.” “The next step was learning how to operate my sewing machine,” Nelson said. “My initial attempts were crude as I worked out a pattern for the bags and experimented with mounting them on the frames. Frank Aubrey, a friend, became interested in my idea, and we tested the packs on long walks and mountain trips, while I tried to achieve free body movement and ideal weight distribution. We carried blankets and canned food, and sometimes even added rocks for weight!” “Meanwhile, I changed and improved my design,” Nelson said. “I added an outside pocket to the bag for handy access to small objects and I increased the size of the flap to cover a bedding roll laid across the top of the pack.” “When the first dozen were assembled, I looked over the array–and cut them up and burned them in the furnace,” Nelson said. “Then I went back to dorm and ordered another dozen frames,” Nelson’s design and workmanship pleased him better on the second dozen. When they were completed, he set forth as a salesman and aroused curiosity by walking into sporting-goods shops and hardware stores in Bremerton and Seattle with his loaded pack on his back. “Everyone was interested, but no one would buy one,” Nelson recalled. “The consensus was that my product was too goo-looking doe the type of person who carries food, clothes and blankets from place to place. The best I could do was leave my samples on consignment.” Before long, a few of the consignments sold, and Nelson decided to advertise his product. He put one of his packs on his back and went to the Izzard Advertising Co. in the old Times Building. There, he talked with Bill Horsley and arranged for printed folders. As he was leaving, Horsley asked what he wanted to name his new idea? “Anything you like!” Nelson said. “Your business is advertising.” When he returned a week later, Horsley had coined the name “Trapper Nelson’s Indian Pack Boards.” In time, this was shortened to the catchy trade name still in use. After applying for a patent, Nelson continued his advertising campaign by mailing his folders to sporting-goods shops and outdoor organizations. He placed a few advertisements in magazines, and he sent free sample pack boards to likely prospects, including the Forest service, Boy Scouts leaders and well-known sportsmen. Nelson’s faith in his enterprise was unbounded. He even loaded his car with samples and took his wife and small daughter on a trip from Seattle to San Diego. They spent 35 days traveling and camping out. Nelson called on every sporting-goods store he could find in every town they passed. To speed up production, he arranged with Charles Trager, a Seattle manufacturer of lumberjack gloves, aprons and bags, to take over the making of the canvas parts. In the summer of 1929, Nelson sold the business to Trager. “Fate is peculiar.” Nelson remarked. “Two weeks later, I received a rush order from the Forest service at Missoula. They wanted 500 pack boards to equip forest rangers and forest fighters.” “Within a fortnight, another rush order came for 500 more from the Forest service at Salem, Oregon! A pall of smoke hung over the Pacific Northwest, and the ill wind that fanned the fires proved to be a boom to my pack boards. Movie newsreels showed scores of men equipped with ‘Trapper Nelson’ pack boards. At last they had reached the public eye!” George Trager, who inherited the business from his father, continued production of Nelson’s pack boards and found many customers including the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Army Mapping Service, and of course, the Boy Scouts of America. “Many orders had been received from foreign countries, and one surprise request for 50 ‘Trapper Nelson’ pack boards came from the Abyssinian water Dept. commission!” Trager said. Nelson finally retired in 1959. He was proud to have contributed with his pack-board episode, to the welfare and pleasure of those who travel on foot in the great outdoors.
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