the Mad Trapper of Rat River, was a fugitive whose actions stemming from a trapping dispute eventually sparked off the largest manhunt in Canadian history. The event became a media circus as the trapper  eluded the Royal Mounted Canadian Police sent to take him into custody, which ended after a 150 mi  pursuit lasting just under 2 months and a shootout in which the trapper was fatally wounded on the Eagle River, Yukon.