This article attempts to show the comparison and scrutiny of "The Mad Trapper" as a novel and its adaptation as a film. As both a book and a film it provides a good narrative that draws on a rich legacy of people, fables and myths. Rudy Wiebe's recent novel The Mad Trapper (1980), the legend, presents a basis for the framing. Beyond any distress with the chronological events, the writer categorically depicts legendary dimensions to weave his conflicting narrative. Weibe's argument, however, does not just involve Thermo and Albert Johnson; his thesis lies amidst the looming desires for independence and reliability and the problem of multifaceted and distant progress. On the other hand, “The Mad Trapper” is also a film that draws its plot from the novel. The film shows the staging or dramatization of a particular individual's search. The research takes place in Canada between the years 1931 and 1932. Albert Johnson was considered a hermit, which means he operated as an introvert. He made few associations; contacts and even friends. In 1932, a challenging manhunt began, considered an Arctic legend. In about a month and a half, in the midst of a snowstorm and freezing winter, he cunningly escaped from a group of fur trappers, military forces and Indians who for the first time used a two-way radio and an airplane. He is wanted on charges of being involved in shootings, killing one officer and seriously wounding two others. One of the differences between the film and the book lies in the settings or rather the environment in both the film and the book. The book describes an exemplary real tale, one of the mountain myths, located in the northern parts of Canada in the 1930s. The book portrays an account of C......middle of paper.......In the film adaptation, Millen sympathizes and empathizes with Johnson for something that is not well reported in the book. It is very easy to see from the film that the two men are similar and perhaps as different from the other characters as they are similar. Millen is as reluctant to go after Johnson as we are to see him go after Millen. The book's plot was significantly reworked for dramatic effect. The most obvious of these changes is the role played by Agent Millen. “Wop” May, who helped track down “Mad Trapper,” is questionable. The film is a fairly faithful adaptation of the book. The amateur style of the book gives it a certain charm as a more elegant and sophisticated style would not evoke a sense of anguish, desperation and confusion as the novel does. Works Cited Wiebe, R. (2003). The mad hunter. New York: Red Deer Press.