Albert Johnson, also known as The Mad Trapper of Rat River, was a approached by local authorities due to a trapping dispute. This led to one of the biggest manhunts in the Northwest Territories and Yukon. The pursuit lasting more than a month and a shootout in which Johnson was fatally wounded on the Eagle River, Yukon.

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