Saturday, September 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, March 17, 1851
It is said that one of the bands of the Medwakantodwad Dakotahs in Minnesota, have delivered to their trader, fifteen hundred deer skins, which they have taken this season. If this is correct, the band must have killed at least two thousand deer during the fall and winter, for five hundred skins or more are […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 25, 1910
Driven from Mountains and Killed in Main Street of Silverton, Col. Durango, Col., Oct. 25.-Chased from its haunt in the mountains by a timber wolf, a half grown deer, sought refuge in the business districts of Silverton, a town of 2,000 people, but was killed before a crowd of people, neither animal paying any attention […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, September 10, 1906
Mr. Cain of Galiano Island, British Columbia, had an exciting experience with some deer. While out in his boat for a row he noticed three deer swimming across Whaler’s bay. He gave chase and headed them up a narrow inlet, at the head of which was a steep bluff of rocks with a flat mud […]
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, December 2, 1847
Mr. Giberson, on Monday last, while hunting in the Sangamo Bottom, killed a deer that weighted 215 pounds. It is the largest one that we have ever seen, and if any larger are raised in other counties, we should like to know it.
Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, July 27, 1848
A correspondent of the National Intelligencer, writing from the Alleghany Mountains in Georgia, describes an old hunter whom he found in a log cabin, in the center of a small valley completely hemmed in on all sides by wild and abrupt Mountains and one of the most romantic and beautiful rocks imaginable. He has lived […]
Monday, September 24, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 30, 1921
Attempt to Colonize the Animal Was Not a Success-Marked Intelligence Shown by Them. A hundred years ago it was thought that the mountain forests of Great Britain might be colonized by raindeer from Lapland, and an account was given in 1821 in an issue of the Observer. London, of the extraordinary sagacity displayed by them […]
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 9, 1904
Appalling List of Fatalities During Deer Hunting Season. One hunter was killed or wounded for every sixty-five deer killed in the north woods of Wisconsin and northern Michigan in the hunting season which has just closed. Forty-two nimrods were either slain outright or died from their wounds, many of them being shot down by overzealous […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 11, 1907
Meets Maine Youth on Forest Road and Hooks His Lamp. Â Â Â Â James Collins of Isle an Haut, Me., had a thrilling experience with a deer on a recent evening. Mr. Collins is a musician and at 7 o’clock left his home at Moore’s Harbor to go to a dance. When about halfway he saw a […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 28, 1907
Antlered Animal Knocks Bicyclist Off His Wheel. Â Â Â Â Bewildered and crazed by the flaring light on an approaching bicycle ridden by Winfield B. Gorton of Sayville, N. Y., an antlered buck which was trotting peacefully along the highway near the Cutting estate halted and then charged the oncoming rider with all his strength. Young Gorton […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, April 20, 1880
    Silas Reeves was killed in Pennsylvania recently by a falling tree. Silas Reeves, or “Uncle Sile.” as he was known throughout Northern Pennsylvania, was one of the most remarkkable characters in the State. He was seventy years of age, and for nearly sixty years he had been a hunter, trapper and fisherman, and claimed […]