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I Local Pioneer and■Great Hunting EpochThe Democrat recently reprinted an Interesting article by Co). Henry W. Shoemaker, noted author and naturul-Ist, which appeared In hie newspaper, the Altoona Tribune, and In which tho writer recalled the killing of the last wild wolf in MeKean county as told to him by the late Comrade Charles Dickinson of the Pennsylvania Buck-tails of Smcthpurt.Recently another interesting editorial from CoJ. Shoemaker^ gifted pen concerning the kill of deer Iri Pennsylvania during the Sate season anti in which Comrade Dickinson is again quoted appeared in the Tribune.It is appended:The State Game Commission is to be heartily congratulated upon putting across the most successful deer season in Pennsylvania in fifty years, “According to old hunters more deer were killed in a season in the old days, but by fewer hunters. The deer in those days were shot by professional hunters, and a single hunter often killed a hundred deer in a season. Few hunted deer for sport alone In those days, whereas it is just the opposite now.Two thousand deer were killed in McKean county in 1870 by 200 hunters, , x according to the late C. W. Dickinson , ' of Smethport; in 1929 probably 500
Newspaper Details
McKean County Democrat
Smethport, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Jan 30, 1930
Page 7
Full Page
Clipped by
James H.
NA, 08 Dec 2016
Other Publications Near Smethport, Pennsylvania
McKean County Journal
Smethport McKean Citizen
Smethport McKean Miner
Smethport M Kean Miner
Smethport Forester and Smethport Register
