| Ted "Chilco"
Choate offers us his autobiography as almost true. In his own
words he relates interesting yarns about his boyhood days growing
up in White Rock. Read about his old-timer trapper friends, the
Hasler Brothers, his adventures at school, his first encounter
trapping for muskrats and catching a skunk. In Chapter 5, the
author writes about his pool hall days and education. Chapter
9, is all about taming wild raccoons as pets and selling them
at a Farmers Market. In 1951, at the age of sixteen, he said
goodbye to school and worked his way to the remoteness of the
B.C. interior. Within a year he was hired as a ranch hand by
a Chilcotin rancher and a new world of adventure began. |