, Waukegan Daily Sun on Monday, December 23, 2024
Bovine Morals Corrupted. Catskill Cows Taught by Deer to Leap Fences. Ever since the deer were released from the State park in the Catskill mountains several years ago they have more or less become a nuisance. The law prohibits the deer from being shot for five years, and game protectors are kept busy at a […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, January 15, 1852
The Cleveland Herald says that a boy who was recently passing through the woods near Sandusky, met a couple of deer, whose horns were locked in love or war, so closely they could not dissever them, where upon he took a rope, fastened the antlers tight together by trying them, called assistance, and captured them.
Friday, December 22, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, November 23, 1853
Col. James W. Barrett, of Springfield, killed a buck in Christian county, last week, that weighed 225 lbs. net, and had upon his horns twenty-one points.
Published in the Chicago Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, July 30, 1859
Greenly writes a long letter describing his trip from Denver City to the mouth of the Platte River. He thus relates a discussion that occurred one night around the campfire. “By the way, there was a discussion at supper between my three companions-all mountaineers of ripe experience-as to the relative merits of certain meats, of […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, June 5, 1906
Swift Runners on Snowshoes Make Short Work of the Brutes. The Swedish Lapps live entirely with, by and upon their raindeer. A Lapp who owns a thousand deer is a very rich man; but, as taxes are assessed upon the number of deer, he is inclined to underestimate his herd. The most dangerous enemy to […]
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, October 7, 1853
This snake finds a superior foe in the deer and black snake. Whenever a buck discovers a rattlesnake in a situation which invites an attack, he loses no time in preparing for battle. He makes up within 10 or 12 feet of the snake, then leaps forward and aims to sever the body with his […]
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, January 17, 1855
The Banger Mercury of Dec. 30th, says, Albert Richards and P. A. Chase, were returning from Machias last Monday, when a large wolf crossed the road about two rods from them, in pursuit of a deer, which was about twenty feet ahead of the wolf. The wolf caught up to the deer about two rods […]
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, January 17, 1855
The Rockingham, [Va.] Register gives the following account of an old Virginia hunter, Frederick Keiser, of Pendleton County, has devoted much of his time to hunting the mountains of his native county. He is in his 88th year, and has killed during his life, one thousand deer, ten elk, three-hundred bears, thirty panthers and fifty-three […]
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, February 18, 1854
A dog plunged into the Ohio, a few miles above Cairo, a short time since, after a deer, and caught it when about a hundred yards from the shore. The dog after getting on the deers back, and fastening to his ear, so interfered with its swimming, that a spectator on the bank took a […]
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, January 18, 1850
A Port Natal [South Africa] paper, in noticing the return of Capt. Faddy and some other sportsmen, from a hunting expedition in the interior, says that the list of game killed by them included one hundred and thirty-five elephants, seventeen rhinoceros, a lion, a hippopotamus, a leopard and a wolf, besides 42 buffaloes, 7 wild […]