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Summary

There is a breed of man who never settles, can't stop running, doesn't fit in. Such men thrive on adventure and the freedom of vast, open spaces. Johnny Conrad Johnson was one such desperado, a man who defied a combined force of trappers and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in a forty-eight-day running battle along the Arctic Circle. He engaged in four shoot-outs with his pursuers, before being fatally wounded on February 17, 1932. Dick North, the award-winning author of The Mad Trapper of Rat River, re-creates Johnson's life story, a chronicle of robberies and escapes through the wilderness of North America, all leading up to one of the most famous manhunts in history.

Author Biography

Dick North has worked as a seaman, a fisheries officer, and a newspaper editor in Alaska and Canada's Yukon. He is the author of The Mad Trapper of Rat River, Trackdown and The Lost Patrol. He is currently the curator of the Jack London Exhibit and Interpretation Center in Dawson City, Yukon.

The Farm	p. 1
The Bainville Hoax	p. 9
Bank Heist	p. 16
Buying the Speed Horse	p. 27
Getaway	p. 37
The Wolf Hunt	p. 46
Kemmerer Jail	p. 56
Caught Stealing Horses	p. 67
Anyox, Telegraph Trail, and the Pony	p. 79
Wintering at Echo Lake	p. 88
Stampede to Goldpan Creek	p. 97
Bill Hanna's Accident	p. 107
Building a Boat at Ross River	p. 115
Prospectors Offer Advice	p. 125
Wrong Turn	p. 137
Gold Strike!	p. 148
Face-Off	p. 161
Constable King Shot	p. 170
The New Year's Eve Ball-1932	p. 182
The Cabin Shootout	p. 193
Escape!	p. 206
The Canyon Shootout	p. 217
Trapped?	p. 231
Crack Shot and Plane Join Posse	p. 239
Down for the Count	p. 249
Aftermath	p. 258
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Excerpts

Johnny Johnson sensed tidal-like currents were sweeping him forward in a surge
which he could not swim against. Fate had one course for him and its heavy-handed inevitability prodded him on. He could not, would not deny the adventurous strains of his ancestral past. The hot blood of Viking warriors raced through John's veins, and he was constantly conscious of this legacy of his forefathers, who terrorized the people of Europe with their exciting, bloody raids. Johnny had played the part of a Viking in games of childhood. It was the warrior's dream, and like thousands of youngsters before and since, he relived all of the glory in his make-believe world. But Johnny had other heroes, much closer, thus more ominous than the Vikings of so many centuries past.
These were the adventurers of the new world, who trod the very soil his family now
tilled, and sailed the rivers, and hunted the endless plains where he, too, hunted, and fought imaginary battles over ground they walked upon. Johnny's mind, as he rode toward Bainville, was an overlay of images of giants of the western frontier. Now he, too, was embarking on the danger trail, and he silently vowed to live up to the hand-me-downs they had left behind.

Excerpted from The Man Who Didn't Fit In: How Canada's Most Wanted Outlaw Began His Life of Crime by Dick North
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