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Bear Grease

Ep. 340: One-Day Trappers' War - Why Corrupt Leaders?

Bear Grease

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.87.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Bear Grease podcast, we are looking into the actual events of the April 12, 1926, one-day Trappers' War in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana where mercenaries hired by Judge Leander Perez mounted a machine gun on a boat and attempted to kill the Islenos trappers on Delacroix Island.  We will also look deeper into the life of Leander Perez while asking why so many corrupt leaders have come out of this region of the country.

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The stretch that the fall, the battle was taken is about a mile, so the boat was going and they with the machine gun and the people from Dullochoe were shooting over the levee, you know,

0:53.9

just shooting their shotguns, rifles, whatever they have.

0:57.6

Yeah.

0:58.0

A lot of them would birdshot, a lot of them with buckshot.

1:00.6

What killed the machine gun, man, I don't know, I guess, just shot them up.

1:06.6

The way I understand that the motor was all shot up, the boat, the cabin on a boat

1:12.7

was all chined up with bullet holes. I guess that's what I could see, you know.

1:17.6

On this episode, we're getting into the nitty-gritty details of the November 1926.

1:24.6

One day, it's Lanyos Trappers War in South Louisiana over muskrat trapping rights.

1:31.3

We'll hear from two men whose fathers were involved in the war.

1:34.8

But a bigger question to me is why is this region of the country known for producing corrupt leaders?

1:43.2

And is that even a fair question?

1:45.8

This is a look into human nature when it's corrupted by power and muskrats.

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